This is Not a RescueThis Is Not a Rescue is the eagerly awaited debut collection from Emily Blewitt. These poems move in various registers, keyed to their subject matter. There are pieces that take a playful approach to the authors native Wales (How to Explain Hiraeth to an Englishman, How to Marry a Welsh Girl) which resist clich by subverting our expectations. Similarly, there are several sharp, satirical poems about modern office life; these paint a familiar scene,

Captured by the ruthless – and gormless – Criminarch of Radishia

And then there is Seduce’s old lover

the book makes an important contribution to the underdeveloped area of reception in Caribbean literary and aesthetic studies

Jackleen Salam – Two Poems

org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments

The issue features new poems from Vona Groarke

‘The story of a man’s resilience as well as an artist’s ingenuity

The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf by Mohja Kahf

an audio drama

drawing on unpublished material in the prison archives

She is a Fellow of the Hawthenden International Writers Centre

Emily Hasler