Small Town Joy Kader BoubekriQueer musicians have long mined beauty from the darkest of seams and today's artists are taking that treasure and using it to make magic. In Small Town Joy, trans writer, musician and broadcaster Carrie Marshall discovers the sometimes surprising ways LGBTQ+ artists changed Scotland's soundtrack, meeting Scots artists, industry insiders and music fans to celebrate the music and musicians that filled floors, opened minds and changed lives. Featuring
Sarah Holt’s debut novel is chick-lit with a twist
Missives from the Masses opens award-winning author Su Tong’s newest collection of short stories
*Queen Palm* celebrates the power of Christmas as a transformative and introspective time
Verhaeren and Egon Schiele have been published in books and literary journals
The author’s coolly intelligent wit is to the fore in ‘Devouring Jane’
cut up and spliced with passages of cultural analysis and moments of feral lyric riff to ask what it means to be politically reviled
from Mandrake the Magician to the bachelor uncle kicked in the ‘stones’ as a child
and pensive
analysed the appeal of “hardboiled” US crime novels of the 1930s to an industrial working class that failed to identify with the tamed domesticity of the home counties
Syrian poet Nazih Abu Afash’s ‘diary’ of war and Anzhelina Polonskaya – all in this new issue of the ground-breaking magazine dedicated to poetry in translation: for the best in world poetry read MPT
Leah Fritz’s poetry always seems to celebrate life
as well as the respect of their peers
