Real Oxford Jo Catling

Real Oxford Jo CatlingOxford, city of dreaming spires, bicycles, Inspector Morse, tourists, gentility. Or perhaps a less familiar place? Jericho, once seedy backstreets with Oxfords main porn cinema and an astonishing concentration of pubs, now mythologised by Philip Pullman and gentrified beyond the wildest imaginings of the college groundsmen and porters for whom it was designed. Cowley Road, the ethnic mix of restaurants, the core of Labour voting Oxford East ward, and

set in a Welsh criminal underworld populated by assassins

Abbas Beydhoun: Selected poems

David Jones and Bediveres horse

Searle writes on cricket

Hernandez’ narrators have the level gaze of ordinary women reckoning with extraordinary hardship

Futures features some of the most daring new voices in Greek poetry

Clueless Dogs

while rage swells in gas stations and living rooms around them

Her own poetry is published by Cinnamon Press: The Drier the Brighter (2007) and Joy Change (2010)

musician and critic

This book looks in detail at the politics and personalities of UKIP

Lisa Steinman