Monthly Archive for: ‘July, 2022’

Stories to warm your hands by
By MLJ
on July 1, 2022

Stories to warm your hands by

Cold enough for you? Try these short stories to turn up the heat as winter draws in … ‘Butterflies of the Balkans’ Jo Lloyd, author of the collection The Earth Thy Great Exchequer Lies, thinks of the short story as a huge thing contained in a small space – like a poem or a TARDIS

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‘Sublime, strange tenterhooks’
By MLJ
on July 1, 2022

‘Sublime, strange tenterhooks’

It’s been a crazy six months for me – but poetry helped. The editors of the NOTHEME XI issue of the online poetry journal Cordite, Emily Stewart and Eloise Grills say it better. They write that, ‘in this post-not-really pandemic juncture’ they remembered, most of all, ‘How much we need the work of poetry and its sublime, strange

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