Dear Blacksmith Guzstáv Báger

Dear Blacksmith Guzstáv BágerThis wasn't the story I wanted to tell. The end happened in the middle. Part love story, part grief memoir, Dear Blacksmith recounts the author's brief and unconventional love affair with 'Blacksmith Paul', a maverick who lived out on the moors in the Peak District, and the heart rending details of her grief after his sudden death, just eight months into their relationship. Adapted from the much loved blog Swimming Through Clouds, the story is told

and his work has appeared in scores of journals such as Ploughshares

Editor Joan McBreen's 2009 publications include a collection

Having been a tutor of botanical art for many years

music and books

she starts to spill gin and family secrets

sonnets from Hesiod’s Calendar

After the War Vasili Tyorkin won the Stalin Prize and was the subject of a famous painting by Mikhailovitch Neprintsyev

Polona Glavan

Shortlisted for the T

Dennis Silk

Just suppose they swapped places

Conceptually and emotionally compelling