Alka Balain — Excerpt: The Hour of God opens with a sacred invocation to wholeness from the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, and this invocation sets the tone of the collection.
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A Joycean Romp through Belfast: Hanna Nielson’s Did You Pay the Piper Man?
Mark Mullan — Excerpt: Hanna Nielson’s debut is a joyous Joycean romp through a single wintery night in post-Troubles Belfast that asks: If all of life is a play, do we write our own lines?
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Toilet Spider
Sadie Kaye — Excerpt: It was like all my phobias had decided to get together and have a child.
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An Evening of Upset
Joe Couture — Excerpt: He was lying in bed eating shrimp-flavoured crackers when he got the call. His mother had finally died.
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Bismillah by Peter Cat Recording Co. — A Life Lived Between Drift and Surrender
Deepanshu Premani — Excerpt: Bismillah is not an album that sits quietly in the background. It creates a space and pulls the listener into it.