El Hacho Tahar Ben Jelloun

El Hacho Tahar Ben JellounEl Hacho is a timeless evocation of inheritance, duty and our relationship to the landscape that defines us. Set in the stark beauty of the Andalucan mountains it tells the story of Curro, an olive farmer determined to honour his family tradition in the face of drought, deluge and the lucrative temptations of a rapidly modernising Spain. Wonderfully crafted, El Hacho is a poignant and compelling story of struggle and hope.

The stories are told in a number of voices: middle-aged way leave officer Frank

even the fantastical feels plausible: a performance artist devours raw deer meat in the forest

evocative biography of Shake Keane explores with equal passion Keane’s double life as poet and musician and his innovation as a virtuoso in both art forms

Intertitles is an anthology of work situated at the intersection of writing and the visual arts

Luker returns ‘loss’ to the affective animation of the body

requiring all the abundance of humour

The overarching theme to Issue 27 is memory: memories themselves are gems in their own right

and a poignant

travelling the world

A Modern Don Juan (with NS Thompson) and Letters to Randall Swingler (also published by Shoestring)

In a remote valley in the Black Mountains farmer’s daughter Beth is a child of nature

Fully annotated with key secondary texts