🚨 BREAKING: half of people in the UK have lost access to community spaces - with families in the most deprived areas losing them fastest.
Parks, libraries, leisure centres are essential for our mental and physical health.
We all need places to connect. Especially when life is tough.
When you finish a novel and feel devastated - both that it's finished and because of the way that book has exposed the world and made you think about your place in it and how you behave. #ElizabethStrout
A lot of people are under the mistaken impression that progress means advances in tech. Real progress is kids who are literate, free meals for public school students, a culture in which human art & poetry are celebrated. We're regressing rapidly & the only way forward is to read.
Join us online on Monday 9 Feb for glorious poetry from Ella Frears, Stuart Charlesworth and our fab open mic readers. Tickets & open mic slots available now! eventbrite.co.uk/e/cafe-writ…
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IS&T January 2026
Pick of the Month
Helen Akers
Samantha Carr
Antony Dunn
Myra Schneider
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Jessica Mookherjee reviews 'Grey Time' by Julia Webb
Jessica Mookherjee's review of 'Grey Time' by @Julwe1 elegantly takes us through a collection which deftly deals with the emotional complexities of trauma, grief, violence and motherhood while remaining unsentimental.
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ALT Photograph of a book cover. The cover is a greyscale photograph of trees reflected in a windowed wall, which has been rained on. Text on the cover reads: Grey Time. Julia Webb. Nine Arches press logo is also on the cover. To the right of the photo, text reads: “Grief in Grey Time becomes architecture, map, creature, weather.” “Webb resists elegiac polish, holding love, irritation, exhaustion and tenderness together in a finely shaped prose sequence. Its moral clarity lies in refusing to simplify.”
Join us online next Monday night (12 Jan) for fabulous poetry from Pádraig Ó Tuama and Reshma Ruia. Tickets and open mic spots available now! eventbrite.co.uk/e/cafe-writ…
Join us online next Monday night (12 Jan) for fabulous poetry from Pádraig Ó Tuama and Reshma Ruia. Tickets and open mic spots available now! eventbrite.co.uk/e/cafe-writ…