Issue 000

This is a pre-issue of our magazine to let you see what it looks like, the sort of things it will contain and how it is laid out and navigated.

The Tyger

By: William Blake

The poem explores and questions Christian religious paradigms prevalent in late 18th century and early 19th century England; predominantly forming discussion regarding God's intention and motivation for creating both the tiger and the lamb.

The Tyger

Are You A Heretic?

By: J. G. Rufford M.A.

Heresy is something that happened a long time ago isn’t it?  No-one bothers about heresy today, do they?  Well, that’s true – up to a point.  But heresy is due for a comeback, all the signs are there, believe me – the, ‘be reasonable, do it our way, or else’ voices are being raised on all sides.  Even the ‘H’ word itself is being bandied about within such a staid old lady as the Church of England. 

Are You A Heretic?

Santini’s Last Meal.

By: Joe [Two Spoons] Nardelli

Cookery writing doesn’t appeal to everyone.  For instance, I’m sure more men would read cookery books if the writers were prepared to change their style a bit and go for stronger story lines and better characterisation!

Santini’s Last Meal.

Has Capitalism become theft?

By: Ramona Redgrave

Money is not Wealth and Wealth is not Money.

I am looking at Wealth in order to develop an understanding of how Capitalism works today and Wikipedia has rather let me down...

Has Capitalism become theft?

God is in the detail.

By: Martin Gayford. Christies Online Magazine 8 February 2021

As sculpture soared to new heights in Renaissance Italy, northern Europe was having a creative surge of its own, filling its churches with spectacular, incredibly intricate works carved in limewood.

Martin Gayford selects favourite examples.

God is in the detail.

Maggie.

By: Turn Point Theatre 18 September 2020 performed by Brede McDermott

Maggie is an elderly, homeless bag-lady, badly and dirtily dressed.  She pushes a battered pram or supermarket trolley in which are black plastic bags containing all her worldly possessions.  She crosses to the bin and begins to sort through it, puts a few bits into a plastic bag then picks up some cigarette stubs from which she starts to collect what tobacco is left.  She pauses, turns to the audience, glares at them then speaks in a strong Northern Irish accent.

Maggie.

Billy Waters

By: James Green

The Great War, which had finished in 1918, had been no joke.  But surely after all these years there couldn’t still be some unfinished business...

Billy Waters

Welcome to the Back List...

By: Editor

I don't suppose anyone knows excatly how many forgotten titles there are in publishers' Back Lists, but one thing is for sure, some of them would be really worth discovering by a new audience.  Here's a sample I have chosen to show you what I mean...

Welcome to the Back List...