Motherland and Other Stories Ruby Cowling

Motherland and Other Stories Ruby CowlingWandeka Gayles mostly young black women protagonists win our hearts as risk taking, adventurous explorers of the white world, away from home, which at some point has been Jamaica. They include Roxanne who starts work in a care home in London, who strikes up a rapport with a depressed old man who used to be a writer; Ayo who heads to college in Louisiana, and fights off the internalised voice of her godly, tambourine beating aunt to begin an affair

set in her native California

While our forms may change

the north of England and Goa

a Salonica tobacco-factory worker killed by police during a strike

Of destruction and restoration

including the critically acclaimed The Stonecutter's Hand

account of lives struck by loss and threatened by love

Elizabeth Reeder

In the ritual performance of the following song

Vivan Eden

connectedness and social transformation in modern everyday life

a poetic response to ‘Awater’ by Jane Draycott and poems by Hindi poet and novelist Geet Chaturvedi