Story CitiesStory Cities explore ways in which stories respond to, reflect and re imagine the city. Explore new short fictions in multiple genres that address the city. A guide book to the fictional city, all cities, any city: its markets, squares, cafs, hotels, parks, stations and ports; the main streets, side streets, back alleys dead ends and the crossroads. Never identified, the city has a voice of its own. Includes work from writers in Australia, Eire,

getting up again

Lucien returned to St

echoing the likes of Heaney

The book could only have been written by a maestro of Peter King's stature and for me it was a complete 'page turner'

a haunted current that charges after each line and image

On the eve of Occupy Wall Street

Lukman Derky – Sixteen Poems

Thomas McCarthy

David Hook

as another spring dawns

the latter in the USA and both writing intriguing poems of vision and changing heritages

"He employs the poetic resources of all ages and languages to describe the central dramas of the soul with beauty