MegacityMEGACITY brings together new writing from some of the most impenetrable corners of the world today with creativity, resilience and beautifully black humour. COVID 19 has thrived in megacities and poses unique challenges to the worlds densest urban hubs. Beat lockdown by travelling virtually, into the homes and lives of global megacity writers from Karachi, Paris, Manila, Lagos, Tokyo and others. Absurd, extreme, pleasure filled, crime ridden. Sky high

from its medieval churchyard (and possibly even earlier) roots

During the Axis occupation of Greece (1941–1945) he was a member of EAM (National Liberation Front)

Eventually his stunning landscapes caught the mood of loss and of "Englishness" in the inter-war years and he became one of the most popular and admired artists in Britain

American expatriate Carrie Etter's debut collection

always in solidarity

It includes well-known poems like ‘The Ladle’

this accident reunites Enrique with a childhood friend

and fast-moving playscript by Lebanese poet

and how he became a captain at 14

which are often full of unexpected poetry

where she contemplates writing about her past (sort of)

Two hundred years after Byron turned his back on the hypocrisy and cant of his native England