The Lonely Crowd: Spring Sampler

You can now download a free 32 page PDF sampler of Issue Four of The Lonely Crowd, Spring. Spring contains over 240 pages of short fiction, poetry and photography from some of the most exciting writers and artists at work today, including Kate Hamer, Joe Dunthorne, Susie Wild, Polly Atkin, Robert Minhinnick, Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch, Valerie Sirr, Alan McMonagle & many, many more.

Download the preview here and you can read the first page of my short story 'Looks Like Rain':

The Lonely Crowd – Issue Four

A great journal to support!

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In Praise of Magnolia

Teaching means a walk through Roath Park and along the lake. Look at this beauty!

TRAVEL PHOTO: Asian green bee-eater

A bit of vibrant colour from this Asian green bee-eater on a wire on our trip to Goa last year...

BOOK REVIEW: 'one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Welsh writing in English'

There is a wonderful extended review essay 'Ecological Literacy' by Steven Lovatt in the latest issue of New Welsh Review exploring recent books that seek to restore natural and cultural ecologies and recognise how the cultural nature of our landscapes is preserved in language. It offers an in-depth look at This Common Uncommon by Rae Howells, and here are three of our favourite snippets: "Rae Howells’ new poetry collection, This Common Uncommon , is a fierce and loving affirmation of the local, exemplifying the sort of care-full attention to the interdependence of people, other animals and plants that will be required if anything worthwhile is to be saved from the present ruin." "Howells confirms the evidence of her first collection, The Language of Bees, that she is a highly adept poet, possessing one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Welsh writing in English." "If West Cross Common is developed for housing, nobody can now claim ignoran...

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