The Ballad of Reading GaolYet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword! In May of 1895, the centurys most dazzling man of letters was sentenced to two years with hard labour for acts of gross indecency with another male person. On his release he moved to France, where he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol: an anguished plea for prison

a woman came staggering to me

Guy Bennett A Red Cherry on a White-Tiled Floor

Hédi Kaddour – Treason

eye-witness reporting and heartfelt polemic is intoxicating

was published by Salmon Poetry in 2008

owed so much

we pay tribute to Doris Kilias

He edits the radical cultural journal Penniless Press

In the concluding section

Issa J Boullata

being published by AUC Press

There it may thrive or die