Dirty Laundry Gary Geddes poets whose orally composed and

poets whose orally composed and performed verses were as much revered in ninth- to thirteenth-century Scandinavia as heroism in battle

in discovering such common patterns as the loss of innocence

against the world’s disarray

Fourteen fiction writers dominate this issue

Dirty Laundry Gary Geddes poets whose orally composed andDeborah Alma's debut Dirty Laundry, to be published in May 2018 by Nine Arches Press, is raucous, sexy and brilliantly honest a rich mix of sharply observed, funny and often poignant poetry. Deborah Alma runs the world's first and only mobile poetic first aid service from her base in Newtown, Powys. A mix of the serious, the therapeutic and the theatrical, the Emergency Poet offers consultations inside her vintage 1970s ambulance and prescribes poems