Tymes Goe By TurnesFrustrated by working under lockdown and worried that the 2020 festival might not happen, Arachne Press decided to continue as though everything would be alright, and asked writers to something that responded or reacted to or was inspired by a sixteenth century poem that editor Cherry Potts has always found comforting in a crisis: Robert Southwell's Tymes Goe by Turnes; or that responded or reacted to or was inspired by some concept in it. The poem

• Sex and art

she keeps her door bolted

Praise for Slipping Under Diamond Light:

while another gives birth to a tree

Oz Hardwick

then look away now

A child embraces the power she has over creatures smaller than herself

Fishman is a visiting professor at Queen Mary College

Reminiscent of Jeanette Winterson’s 'Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit' Gannon’s memoir is an assured story of her childhood and of a slice of Britain in the 50s and 60s

to see what it is that gives that particular form of words life

s to say that the way we

considerations of misunderstanding between fathers and sons