Alice and the NorthAlice and the North is a sequence of prose poems that form a love song to the North, its post industrial landscapes, wild uplands, obsession with weather, seasonal change and awkwardness. Like Lewis Carroll's Alice before her, the lead character shifts and changes as her journey across the North continues; she is at turns playful, sexy, rebellious and adventurous, carving a new identity for the region as she goes. From herring quines to the hidden

James J McAuley

This thought-provoking collection takes a frank

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Xenophobia… and all stops in between

Archer joins Austin Clark

"Gabriel Rosenstock's poetry is world poetry

Coleridge’s ‘Kubla Khan’

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uplifting genius of Thomas Wolfe’s (1900-1938) short story 'Circus at Dawn'

Tony Curtis is Professor of Poetry at the University of Glamorgan where he directs an MPhil in Writing

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