Familiar Phantoms Edited by Jess Chandler and Dominic J. Jaeckle

Familiar Phantoms Edited by Jess Chandler and Dominic J. JaeckleThe sixteenth in Five Leaves' series of debut poetry pamphlets by East Midlands writers. Sue Forrester's debut pamphlet Familiar Phantoms shows us a long life: family, friends, events at home and abroadsome remarkable, many everyday, even commonplace. With characteristic objectivity and perceptiveness she distils the residue of their reality to acknowledge their essence, their influence, and their enduring presence

Paul Barker – The Isle of Sheppey

the author's job is over

part 'psychogeography'

There are tales of literary house parties

this book explores uncanny domestic spaces

Katherine Stansfield on Ellie Evans and Judy Brown

is built on a floodplain

Jeffrey Thomson

‘Smyth’s writing is as lushly beautiful as the landscape she describes’ THE TIMES

This open work was written in defiance of the “sanctity of genre” and to raise the question of freedom of expression in writing

[it also] includes a highly original sequence about chickens and egg-laying

uncomfortable truths emerge that shake the Kingdom to its core