Beyond the Walls 2021For writers, walls are challenges to be overcome: put a barrier in their way and they will tunnel under it, vault over it or simply blast their way straight through it. In Beyond the Walls 2021, a new generation of writing talent will be given their chance to do just that. In the latest edition of this much loved anthology, Creative Writing students from York St John University present the very best fiction, non fiction and poetry to emerge from the

Alternately surreal and direct

Monchoachi

Odysseus Elytis

unconventional

Peter Clark Dissident Syria by miriam cooke

as the title says: Samantha Walton’s Self Heal opens to what blows between working streets and windy sky: “under the scolded / boots of the Poor Law / press the kissed field” and out comes love “to rub a mind across a meadow” in the company of saucy language bodies saying “call me / x”

At twenty-three

All The Men I Never Married is a powerful collection of deeply thoughtful and deeply felt poetry

Finch gives us the world in all its contemporary complexity

"Norah manages - perhaps because this book distils a lifetime of writing - to bring before us the tragedy of the human condition

Allfrey’s biographer

Take My Word For It is a beautifully and frankly written record of a significant Jamaican life