Tan Raptures Leah Fritz

Tan Raptures Leah FritzTaking its title from the brown envelopes that strike fear into benefit claimants and the biblical Rapture, Alan Morrisons eighth collection imagines these letters as passports to a twisted Tory notion of salvation through benefit sanction. Tan Raptures is a series of verse missives from the frontline of the war against the poor and its spirit stripping weapons of food banks, poor doors and homeless spikes. Its a peoples history, from Dale Farm and

"Melissa Lee-Houghton’s highly original and innovative debut might be considered an epistolary tour-de-force

these short stories expand Robertson’s already considerable reputation

it is a world of illumination

" Octavio Paz

from farmworkers to immigrant artists

and with adoptive parents

murders and more are grounded in stories of struggling parents

Spacecraft navigates the white space of the page and the distance between people

observed on buses and trains or discovered in the archives

Essentially the story of Lewis’s short and sometimes tortured life

is of Barbadian heritage

Saleem Barakat