The Handsworth Times The Handsworth Times:Paperback

The Handsworth Times The Handsworth Times:PaperbackMukesh Agarwal sits alone in the Black Eagle pub, unaware that a riot is brewing or that Billy, his youngest son, is still out on his bike A mile away in the family home in Church Street, Anila, one of the three Agarwal girls, is reading Smash Hits and listening to Radio One as she sprawls across the bottom bunk, oblivious to the monumental tragedy that is about to hit her family It is 1981 and Handsworth is teetering on the brink of collapse.

Zaffar Kunial

prose poems and golden shovels

American expatriate Carrie Etter's debut collection

Ifegenija Simonovic

A scruple is the enemy of a moment

Larissa Miller is a consummate technician

Everything

She calls him ‘Redilocks’

There is also a brief selection from his collaborative book/performance project with the New York-based artist John Digby: The Arches

setting off a boom in tourism

luminous core of knowing

Amina Saïd – Five Poems