Ali Smith

Marina Lewycka

Inua Ellams

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Chris Cleave

David Herd

Patience Agbabi

Stephen Collis

Carol Watts

Dragan Todorovic

Jade Amoli-Jackson

Avaes Mohammed

Hubert Moore

Michael Zand

Two unaccompanied children travel across the Mediterranean in an overcrowded boat that has been designed to only make it halfway across… A 63-year-old man is woken one morning by border officers ‘acting on a tip-off’ and, despite having paid taxes for 28 years, is suddenly cast into the detention system with no obvious means of escape… An orphan whose entire life has been spent in slavery – first on a Ghanaian farm, then as a victim of trafficking – writes to the Home Office for help, only to be rewarded with a jail sentence and indefinite detention… These are not fictions. Nor are they testimonies from some distant, brutal past, but the frighteningly common experiences of Europe’s new underclass – its refugees. While those with ‘citizenship’ enjoy basic human rights (like the right not to be detained without charge for more than 14 days), people seeking asylum can be suspended for years in Kafka-esque uncertainty. Here, poets and novelists retell the stories of individuals who have direct experience of Britain’s policy of indefinite immigration detention. Presenting their accounts anonymously, as modern day counterparts to the pilgrims’ stories in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, this book offers rare, intimate glimpses into otherwise untold suffering.

Refugee Tales

Dorothy Richardson was regarded as a pioneer, the originator of narrative 'stream of consciousness' her exploration of a woman's consciousness comparable to Proust.

Dorothy Richardson

Mary A. Favret

Mark Rawlinson

Andrew Zurcher

Catherine A. M. Clarke

Joanna Bellis

James Purdon

Susanna A. Throop

Katie L. Walter

Tom F. Wright

Reflections on the uneasy yet symbiotic relations of war and writing, from medieval to modern literature.

War and Literature

Mark Bould

Judie Newman

Oliver Harris

Grahame Smith

John Plunkett

Deborah Madsen

Essays on the links between film and fiction, and their mutual influence.

Literature and the Visual Media

George Szirtes

"The first 28 verses appeared in the Long Poem Magazine Issue 10, October 2013"--Title page verso.

A Poem Sequence

Fifty Six

Carol Watts

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