Humanagerie
Edited by Sarah Doyle and Allen Ashley.
Inspired by notions of the animalistic, Humanagerie is a vivid exploration of the nebulous intersection of human and beast. From cities to wilderness, buildings to burrows, and coastlines to fish-tanks, these thirty-two poems and thirteen short stories explore emergence and existence, survival and self-mythology, and the liminal hinterland between humanity and animality.
Contents:
Animal Apology - Paul Stephenson
Beginnings - Elaine Ewart
Aquarium Dreams - Gary Budgen
Beetle - Sarah Westcott
Vixen - Cheryl Pearson
Augury - Tarquin Landseer
The Orbits of Gods - Holly Heisey
Polymorphous / Stages of Growth - Oliva Edwards
Pray - Scott Hughes
Seahorse - Tarquin Landseer
Crow and Rat - James Dorr
Phasianus Colchicus - Kerry Darbishire
And Then I Was a Sheep - Jonathan Edwards
Wade - Tonya Walter
Sanctuary - Lauren Mason
Sturnidae - Setareh Ebrahimi
Rut - Ian Steadman
When a magician - Kate Wise
Palavas-les-Flots - Paul Stephenson
Notes for the "Chronicles of the Land that has no Shape" - Frank Roger
Rough Music - Jayne Stanton
The Butterfly Factory - William Stephenson
Hibernation - Sandra Unerman
Jellyfish - Megan Pattie
Barred Owl - Kristin Camitta Zimet
Ouroboros - Douglas Thompson
The Great Eel of Jazz - Amanda Oosthuizen
University Library - Lindsay Reid
Vulpine - Tarquin Landseer
Sloth - Elaine Ruth White
Flock - David Hartley
Fishy Business - Diana Cant
Wojtek - Mary Livingstone
Susheela - Bindia Persaud
Fluke - Michael G. Casey
Buck and Doe - Jane Burn
A structure of perfect angles - Jane Lovell
Two Lost Souls - Tracey Emerson
Company to Keep at the Harvard Museum of Natural History - Jenny Grassl
Last night a deer - Kerry Darbishire
Miss Muffet Owns Her Inner Spider - Hannah Linden
Dewclaw - Ian Kappos
Female Skate - Sarah Westcott
Noctuary - Tarquin Landseer
Her Audience Shall Stand in Ovation - Jason Gould
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Allen Ashley
One of the most distinctive voices in modern literature, Allen Ashley has been published in dozens of books and magazines in the UK, USA, Canada and Spain and has now passed his first century of short story publications. Allen is a highly respected author equally adept at novels, short stories, poetry and lyrics. He is also well known for a wealth of critical commentary and non-fiction articles and, more recently, as an acclaimed and award winning editor.
Allen has run successful writing workshops in Newham and Tower Hamlets libraries. In October 2005 he gave two readings at the Norwich Fringe Festival. In November 2005 he was the special guest of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group. In May 2006 he ran a writing workshop in Derby as part of the very first "Alt. Fiction Day". On 2nd June 2006 he was the Guest of Honour at The British Fantasy Society (BFS) Open Night at The Devereux Arms, London WC2. On 7th July 2006 he compered the annual BFS "Showcase" evening, also at The Devereux.. At Fantasycon 2006 he moderated a panel on "Independent Versus Mainstream Editing" and was also thrilled to receive the BFS Best Anthology award as editor of "The Elastic Book Of Numbers". At Fantasycon 2007 he moderated a panel entitled "The Small Press - Building and Maintaining an Audience".
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