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Comma is certainly a worthwhile addition to any reader's collection...With anthologies of this calibre, the short story can hold its head up high - a second volume should be eagerly anticipated. The Leeds Guide
What is the relationship between poetry and fiction? Can poets offer any insights to short story writers? In this unique publishing experiment, 20 of Britain and Ireland's leading versifiers have been invited to step forward into the unfamiliar terrain of the short story (many of them for the fist time), to be led by their instincts, by the narrative drive of their already distinguished poetry...into prose.
From the sands of Southport to the reservoirs of mid Wales, from student accommodation to a four star hotel, these stories chart an atlas of personal spaces as sharply defined as the strange and captivating characters who populate them.
Featuring stories by:
- Steven Blyth
- Helen Clare
- Polly Clarke
- David Constantine
- Matthew Francis
- Sophie Hannah
- John Latham
- Joanne Limburg
- Grevel Lindop
- Roddy Lumsden
- Ian McMillan
- Sinead Morrissey
- Sean O'Brian
- Ruth Padel
- Sheenagh Pugh
- Joe Sheerin
- Jean Sprackland
- Anne Stevenson
- Gerard Woodward
- Cliff Yates.
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