This is Not a StuntIn these poems, living with disability or being trans are not tragedies to overcome but ways of being, with their own humour, romance, stories and mundanity. Embracing the ordinary (Were middle aged, of course. Life rolls on) and the remarkable, Cath Nichols revisits her childhood in New Zealand and her teenage years in Kent, before crossing several decades (and haircuts) on the gay scene in Manchester. At the heart of the collection is a sequence,

Aziz al-Samawi

Samuel Shimon Steppenwolf Goes to San Francisco

bought new clothes

Mahmoud Shukair: Two short stories –

‘Children of September’

whose music exemplifies the fact that a jazz composer must have regard for the individual voices of his musicians

Maxine Kumin

Carr's profiles and in-depth interviews with leading musicians and composers document the range of their ideas

Chip Rossetti

three plays and countless newspaper and magazine articles

Elaine Feinstein

Peter Robinson