When We Were Almost Like MenWhen We Were Almost Like Men explores the world of the modern courier industry, the working lives of the men and women caught inside the machinery of the modern city. From controllers to couriers, telephonists to mechanics, supervisors to sales reps, Martin Hayes is a guide to a kind of hell that is simultaneously fascinating, depressing, hopeless and hilarious, exploring what it means to hold down a job when all the odds seem to be stacked against

Jim Saunders new book is a photographic record and words about Hay-on-Wye

his friends and their experiences into works of drama and fiction

Cover artist is Jaber Alwan from Iraq

2007 Rhys Davies Short Story Competition

He is the author of The Jumbie Bird and The Obeah Man

Ibrahim al-Koni

in free verse that draws upon the long-breath incantatory lines of Ginsberg and contracts in miniaturist forms as concise as graffiti

primarily throughout the Ottoman Empire

and led to articles published in The Observer and the Guardian

His previous collections are Ancestor Worship (Salmon Poetry

Tom is Director of Penned in the Margins and Co-Director of the London Word Festival

edgily watching over some of our most poignant and philosophical questions