It’s Raining Today by Mark Left When I dream it is raining. That is normal, that is what it does in Poland. Rain falling in sheets like wire mesh stretched to the four horizons. Keeping me in, shutting me out…
BackStory: Six Questions with Tamsin Cottis
BackStory: Six Questions with Tamsin Cottis Author of Freedom Pass What inspired you to write ‘Freedom Pass’? My first proper job, in the early 1980s, was working with adult with learning disabilities who’d returned to London from many decades of…
Freedom Pass
Freedom Pass by Tamsin Cottis Jackie and me on the bus. Front seat, top deck. Number 38. Hackney Central to Victoria. Memory of this bus came with me to Hospital. German Doodlebugs screaming through clouds. Stop. Wait. Boom! Doctors said…
BackStory: Five Questions with Mary-Jane Holmes
BackStory: Five Questions with Mary-Jane Holmes Author of Down the Long, Long Line What inspired you to write ‘Down the Long, Long Line’? This piece came from a writing prompt combined with research for a project looking at outstanding women…
Down the Long, Long Line
Down the Long, Long Line by Mary-Jane Holmes Dark to light, the tunnel births the train and there’s the river’s head damned blue to reservoir, the ore rakes Da hushed lead from since the valley was drowned, the best sward…