Painting over the cracksPainting Over the Cracks is novelist Sophie Buchaillards poetry debut. Inspired by her life and a series of workshops she ran with survivors of abuse, this collection explores the relationship between unspoken shame and fraying family ties, and the healing power of expression, friendship, and community in overcoming trauma. Split into four chronological sections, the collection travels from the anxieties of a single mother to memories of buried

a process of translation and transformation

we encounter blue feelings and homesickness

being and joy

Tamer Fathy Three Poems

the nature of reality

collecting all of her previously published ‘letters’ and adding the new work

and this book is certainly poetry

A ‘pie-faced’ St George upstaged by the horse

where we all come from and where we are going…

poetry and a monograph on the Roman poet Sulpicia

So he awoke

Not Jake’s mum