Heading into the holidays? Here’s a handy list of favourites I read in 2024 to guide your reading. The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes – This is climate fiction at its best and most poignant and, as Hughes notes, ‘Climate change is contemporary realism. It will become stranger and stranger to avoid it in your fiction.’ My
Listen up … I loved these poems when I read them during the last half of 2024. I hope you also enjoy their different music. ‘Object Permanence’ by Madeleine Cravens The end’s already in motion, the end was starting this whole / time and today Brooklyn is a beautiful, devastating autumn. / Everyone I love
Some of the best short stories I read in the second half of 2024 included circus mammas, love, grief and philosophy, and a prickly character called Pearl who curls into an armchair ‘like cream’. I hope you lap them up! ‘The Mothers and The Girls’ by Saba Sams In Send Nudes Saba Sams immerses us
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