The Green MonkThe Green Monk was written between London, Madrid, and Krakow, and engages thrillingly with various surrealist visions of artists and poets, including Leonora Carrington, Salvador Dali, Federico Garca Lorca, James Tate, and Chika Sagawa. It concerns, variously, queer erotics, animism & magic, food, death & sublime nature, fairy tales & alchemy, & the wonders of everyday life in Madrid. It is simultaneously contemporary and ancient, built on visual

His work as an editor received wide praise for Wheel and Come Again: An Anthology of Reggae Poetry

fairy tale and legend – all tales which belong to the domain of the underworld

The poet’s voice is by turns ironical

both actual and metaphorical

she was head of the Ethnic Minority Achievement Unit for Wandsworth Council

Ifegenija Simonovic

and survival strategies for a world that often works to shut us down

The poets in the issue are the late Mohammad al-Maghut

along with poets Pearse Hutchinson

Ticker-tape is a maximalist take on 21st century living

translator and author Paul Chaoul

fitting in and