Little Blue HutIn 2011 Nancy Charley spent six weeks in a little blue beach hut on Tankerton Slopes, near Whitstable on the Kent coast, recording the changing tides and shifting moods of the shingle beach. Little Blue Hut is a book about weather and water, bladderwrack and gutweed, swimmers, dog walkers and sea anglers, cormorants and blackheaded gulls, resident birds and transient people. And always the horizon where sky merges with sea. In the first half of the

it's a surprising collection

essayist and surgeon

At its heart are the human stories of the deaf Leenah who with her mother and daughter writes a powerful woman version of events

plus works by other young poets and writers

Kevin Simmonds’s poems travel across his native United States and all over the world – from a Deep South spiritual’s lamentation

often finely cadenced and in the best sense measured poetry

a rag flutters on its threads

Sasha Dugdale: Five poems

I am so happy to hear that Henry is playing again

Stefan Weidner: On the Path

empathy and variety challenge the conventions of established drama

Claudia Rankine and George Szirtes