Notes from AWP

Poetry editor Matthew Landrum (pictured left with issue 12 author Lawrence Schimel) reflects on the recent AWP Conference in Minneapolis. With twenty official hourly events, many offsite offerings, and an 18-row book fair, AWP is overwhelmingly wonderful and...

Review: The Good Son by Paul McVeigh

Should I be a loner? Or be in a gang. Paul McVeigh’s ambitious debut pits the half-term struggles of a pre-adolescent boy in the tempestuous run-up to his first day of ‘Big School’, against the explosive, sectarian world of Belfast’s Ardoyne during The Troubles. I...