Said and done: New writing from Brittle StarSaid and Done celebrates ten years of publishing new writers by literary magazine Brittle Star. The stories and poems in this anthology offer a complexity of voices that reach out to share something of what it means to live today in this contradictory but no less beautiful world. Here poetry and short fiction sit side by side in a buzz of conversations, energetic, intellectual, uncertain, full of grace and with often an under stated wit. An anthology

Pictures of the Afterlife

“language is the universal inebriant

Pyramid Texts by Gamal al-Ghitani translated by Humphrey Davies

of crime and acts of mercy

being a woman

But involvement with a revival church and the favour of Shepherd John

was to the threatened dispersal of the Jewish people: that they should be 'a diaspora in all kingdoms of the earth'

Bob Crosby

her body stiff like one about to fall

the Times comparing him to Boswell

poet and graphic designer of Bajan/Afrikan/English heritage

He has received several National Endowment for the Arts awards for his work