She Wrote the SongsParlour songs were the pop hits of the Victorian era and some of the biggest hit makers of the day were women. Barred from positions in universities, cathedrals and orchestras, this intimate, home based musical genre was their only outlet. Sadly, their extraordinary contribution has largely been forgotten, overlooked by historians and marginalised in the timeline of music. Now, however, singer Patricia Hammond is putting the record or, rather, the

bleak Welsh landscapes

Noel Williams

as he calls them

Included also are the 12 inspired photomontages that Rodchenko designed to interleave and illuminate the text

The Tyneside writer Peter Mortimer is used to writing about difficult places

Also fiction from major authors Fadhil al-Azzawi and Mekkawi Said

inner and outer worlds

almost the entire issue is given over to writers from Sudan – fiction

radical politics

for which Serbian director Goran Paskaljevic relocated the action to 1920s Ireland

on the coast

California