We Could’ve Been Happy Here by Keith Lesmeister
-By Terry Melia- We Could’ve Been Happy Here is a collection of twelve bittersweet stories, all set in contemporary Midwest
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Ridgwell Stories and others by Joseph Ridgwell
–Reviewed by Markku Nivalainen– Joseph Ridgwell’s individually published poem, Where are the rebels?, asks what happened to the revolutionary dreams
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Ritual, 1969 by Jo Mazelis
-Reviewed by Cath Barton- A modern school built ‘in the brutalist style’ sits on the top of a hill. On
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In Camera by Nicholas Royle & David Gledhill
-Reviewed by Adrian Slatcher– In Camera follows on from other books from Roelof Bakker’s Negative Press in being both uncategorisable, and
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The End: Fifteen Endings to Fifteen Paintings ed. Ashley Stokes
-Reviewed by Adrian Slatcher– Ekphrasis, or writing that describes a work of art, is commonplace in poetry, but less so in
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Being Dad: Short Stories About Fatherhood – ed. Dan Coxon
-Reviewed by Richard T. Watson– Forgive me for bringing a shed-load of politics into this review, and arguably swamping the
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The Numbers by Christopher Burns & Jackdaws by Neil Campbell
-Reviewed by Cath Barton- Nightjar Press publishes single-story chapbooks in limited editions of 200 copies. Elusive, like the bird of
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Stuff by Charlie Hill
-Reviewed by Jessica Gregory- Just stuff. Just things and meanings and motions swirling round and round, littering your already less
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Notes From An Overweight Starving Artist by Jacob Beaney
-Reviewed by Andie Berryman– When I first read this book, I had to question if a post-punk, Channel 5-addicted, hipster
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He Runs The Moon: Tales from the Cities by Wendy Brandmark
– Reviewed by T. F. Rhoden – Sometimes the setting of stories, the barrios and backstreets and weighty avenues of
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