European female-led literature with an emphasis on place in prose, the narrative voice in fiction, diversity in poetry and beauty and imagination in photography. This anthology takes the theme of metamorphosis, and presents a feature-length profile of trans pioneer and travel author Jan Morris; the stunning photographs, by the multiple international prizewinning Vanessa Winship, of rural Ohio and the Amish community; a literary essay on female nature essayists, plus poems by the Costa Awardwinning Jonathan Edwards.
Cuprins
NONFICTION
‘All the World in a Welsh Hayloft: When MR Thomas Met Jan Morris’ MR Thomas, text & photographs
‘Dawn Chorus’ Yvonne Reddick on three broad-ranging nature essay collections by women, which explore anthropomorphism, grief, ‘mansplaining’ and the necessary limits of Nemesis
FICTION
‘Ice’ Story by Jem Poster, photographs by Vanessa Winship
‘An Eden’ Story by Simon Howells
POETRY
‘The Summer of Nadia Comaneci’ Carrie Etter
‘Outward Bound’, ‘Arrows’ and ‘Days of 1998’ by Jonathan Edwards
‘I am Unlearning’ and ‘Let’s Pretend’ by Julia Forster
‘Boulevard Saint-Laurent’ and ‘Word Wound’ by Ceri Morgan
‘Very Clear and Detailed in the Odd Brilliant Light’ Elizabeth Chadwick-Pywell
Despre autor
Doorstop, 2019) which was a poetry recommendation in the London Review of Books in 2019. Her hybrid nonfiction title Burning Season was published by Bloodaxe on 3 May 2023. She is a regular contributor to New Welsh Review, The Guardian and the New Statesman.