by Nat | Jul 28, 2016 | Currently reading
A blog I’ve been reading for ten years – indeed, since it started! – is People Reading. In each post, Sonya Worthy snaps a photo of someone on the street reading a book. She then interviews them briefly and finds out what they’re reading and why....
by Nat | Jul 26, 2016 | Author news, Features, Front page
Karen Runge’s book is only 16 days old when we meet up on Skype to talk about it. “It’s a screaming new born babe,” she says. “It needs a lot of attention and love and pushing.” It’s interesting to think of Runge’s debut...
by Nat | May 20, 2016 | Currently reading
It’s always a pleasure when Firewords pops up in my letterbox. Even the envelope is pretty! I was pretty excited to see that Krishan Coupland has a story in there – he’s the editor of the very excellent Neon which, if you haven’t checked it out, you...
by Nat | May 16, 2016 | Reviews
his poems — rarely personal, ferociously political, and consistently uncanny — offer apocalyptic visions of European capitalism as a sober corrective Review by William Braun. One may be forgiven for expecting a beast of a different sort from Cristian...
by Nat | May 11, 2016 | Currently reading
One vaguely literary thing I have been enjoying recently is… music. But in particular: vinyl album covers. Before I went to university twelve years ago, I took all the CDs I have ever owned out of their cases (leaving the booklets in the case behind, neatly...