Father Myself Abdelkader Benali

Father Myself Abdelkader BenaliIn 2022, James McDermott lost his sixty year old father to COVID after three weeks in intensive care. In his second collection from Nine Arches Press, McDermott explores his fathers complex illness and death; the pandemic; grief; growth and how as a queer boy then a bereaved son, he had to learn to father himself.

I returned to key questions about and practices of reading and artmaking

A book censor is on the look-out for objectionable content

Ahmed Vall Dine wrote this Memoir

to be read alongside Virginia Woolf

John Lee Grenfell

he has given readings in Europe

An unusual portrayal of motherhood

prostitutes

the first full collection of poems by Laurie Bolger

In inventing a biography and the drowned man’s unspoken desires

choosing limes in the corner shop

as well as the respect of their peers