United Kingdom

by RUTH PORT (United Kingdom)

April 2019

1. Come On Eileen, Dexys Midnight Runners

What can I say? As soon as this comes on you're grabbing my hands and spinning me around with that beautiful smile on your face and that joyful laugh rising in your throat.

LIST

SWALLOWS

by ROSIE JONES (United Kingdom)

Issue 1.1

April 2019

A poem is when a scattering of swallows suddenly form a perfect v.

A poem is the angle which makes dew on a rose petal look like diamonds.

POETRY

THE FAVOURITE

by NATHAN BROOKS (United Kingdom)

Issue 1.1

April 2019

It’s tempting to compare The Favourite, the latest film from Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, to the present state of world leadership; this pitch-black comedy of manners is set in the court of eighteenth-century monarch Queen Anne . . .

JOURNALISM

THE KIDS AREN'T ALRIGHT

by ANNA DAVIDSON (United Kingdom)

Issue 1.1

April 2019

Teenagers are the ones who change history. They have to be. It’s kids with lumps in their throats, bright blue sparks in their fingertips and purple-braced snarls screaming for equality who are the ones who achieve it, their words the upbeat crashdrum of change.

JOURNALISM