The Crazy TruthIn 1984, Girlo Wolf is born into a world of pickets and poverty. She dreams of a world beyond the defunct slagheaps of post industrial Wales and, nurturing dreams of becoming a poet, seeks social mobility through education. Struggling with life long mental health challenges and the repercussions of childhood trauma, she falls into a dark underworld of sex, drugs and alcohol. Channelling her lived experiences, and those of her working class community,

Beasts and Flowers

’ So Arno sets out on a journey to get to know him at last

Intertitles is an anthology of work situated at the intersection of writing and the visual arts

What kinds of language negotiations can generate

The designer-murders of American Psycho meets the inventions of The Wasp Factory

cathedrals and orchestras

as well as family and those in close proximity

The regular Literary Infuences feature is provided by the late renowned and respected Jordanian writer Ghalib Halasa from a collection of his articles on writing

Cass McCombs

whose two eldest sons have a condition where their ability to

with a skewed perspective

he brings fresh air into Alun’s cushy number and makes him face the hardest decision of his life