Great FugueGreat Fugue is Volker Brauns most recent collection, an attempt to understand the strange, silent world of 2020 and the COVID pandemic. Drawing on Dante, Beethoven and Pound, the book examines the catastrophic conflict between Progress and Nature in the Anthropocene Age. A book about the day the world stood still in 2020, when our cities were sedated, the streets fell silent and Nature refused to submit to human ideas of Progress. In the Anthropocene

Rachel Coventry

Since pre-historic times they have provided us with shelter

Klonaris’s characters are very much part of the wider changes in Bahamian society

although European and American artists like Otto Dix and Andrew Wyeth also feature

Standing two metres tall

an embittered lead miner from Derbyshire who picks up a pike for his king

Ivor Gurney and Elizabeth Gaskell

The issue opens with the debut novel of Amjad Nasser

In 1996 she received an Arts Council of England Writer’s Award

for the wisdom

acknowledging that history can be dynamic and dialogic

Ghosts abound in a bleak fragmented landscape