Storm DamageStorm Damage weaves personal, historical and mythological threads to create a book that recognises and celebrates the power of words, not least in times of personal and collective challenge. Whether charting the events of her own family life or responding to records in Dublins North Inner City Folklore Collection, the poems and songs contained here have the shadow, and occasionally the light, of history cast over them. For a book in which the word

Nicola Field’s Over the Rainbow confronts the political contradictions in the LGBT+ movement and contains one of the earliest first-hand accounts from the frontlines of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners

while the narrator’s partner seizes her by the hair

and range from hard-hitting political commentary to intimate lyrical pieces – these poets refuse to perform or inspire according to tired old narratives

Petiot is at its centre

winding coastline of Essex

From Peter Pegnall:

learning words in Latvian

of the forgotten

Matt Haig – author of The Last Family in England

inspired by Earth Day

Pauline Stainer

Lange recalls her older sister bathing nude in the moonlight