Wu River Variations1935, China. The Long March hangs by a wire. What remains of the Communist forces make a frenzied retreat to escape their Nationalist pursuers. Trudging vast distances across the nation's fractured hinterland, the only thing preventing their annihilation is the Red Army's top secret codebreaking unit. Led by Chief Zeng, the primitive listening posts and ox bone abacuses of the 2nd Bureau are the sole tools at their disposal as they sift through a

Too ill to function as she did before

Nor is that ‘life’

Emma Hellyer

ekphrastic poems

Many of the entries are not

long-distance drivers

It features the work of six of Latvia’s leading young poets

violinist and poet

radical and brave – it uses multiple voices and forms such as memoir

in her new school she has many friends

into verses that glow with warmth

In this extraordinary