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Really happy to see a new poem of mine published in the December issue of StepAway Magazine, an online literary zine that specialises in poetry about cities. The poem focuses on a visit I made to Belgrade in 2005. You can read it here.
It’s often the case with a long-running original anthology series that the law of diminishing returns kicks in. This is most certainly not the case with the Uncertainties books, published by Swan River Press. And I think a key factor in the continuing vitality of this series is the policy of inviting different editors to … Continue reading
Swan River Press is about to publish Volume VII of it’s original anthology series Uncertainties and I interviewed its editor, Carly Holmes, about the process of pulling together the book, her response to the stories featured, her own work, and uncanny and supernatural fiction in general. You can read the interview here.
I got the chance to interview the excellent Helen Grant about her new collection of short stories called Atmospheric Disturbances, due out from Swan River Press shortly. Her stories deal with a wide range of subjects and ideas, from abandoned Scottish manors and remote islands to petrospheres and Hieronymus Bosch, and we chatted about all … Continue reading
I’m delighted to have a new poem featured in the latest issue of Smashing Times Newsletter (September 2024). Smashing Times is an international organisation that aims at connecting citizens to the arts, human rights, climate justice, and gender equality, and it does this through a wide range of activities, including conferences, talks, art exhibitions, workshops, … Continue reading
Helen Grant’s second collection from Swan River Press, following The Sea Change & Other Stories in 2013, explores a wide range of aspects of the uncanny to great effect. In ‘Gold’, an expedition to a crumbling palace keep hidden along an isolated river bed in an unspecified hot desert country uncovers ancient treasure that proves … Continue reading
In 2020 Swan River Press published Ghosts of the Chit-Chat, a collection of short stories edited by Robert Lloyd Parry and featuring the work of a number of writers who had, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, been members of the Chit-Chat Club, a gathering of undergraduates and staff of Cambridge University that … Continue reading
I’ve just interviewed Robert Lloyd Parry about his recently published anthology Friends and Spectres, which gathers a wide range of supernatural tales written by various undergraduates of Cambridge University who were acolytes of M. R. James. We chat about the glory days of Cambridge University and the joys of rediscovering ‘lost’ stories. You can check … Continue reading
In advance of the publication of Lost Estates by Mark Valentine, I’ve interviewed him for the publisher Swan River Press. We chat about folk horror, psychogeography, Charles George Gordon, King John’s lost treasure, Iain Sinclair, Arthur Machen, and lots of other interesting stuff. You can check it out here.
Mark Valentine’s third book with Swan River Press takes a different tack to the previous two collections, Selected Stories and Seventeen Stories, which focused on middle Europe between the wars. Lost Estates gathers stories by Valentine that share in common various aspects of folk horror, a genre that has a long and honourable tradition in … Continue reading
John Kenny 