Mona Dash traces the intricate landscapes of identity, belonging, and human connection. Mona was born and brought up in India but has been living in London since 2001. She is a Telecoms Engineer, holds an MBA and works currently in the rapidly evolving space of AI in a tech company. She also holds a Masters in Creative Writing and recently gained a MPhil in Creative Writing. In these poems she writes from a position of intersectionality, of different dual identities, which can be conflicting and divisive. While the poems are not autobiographical, they are reflections and explorations of seeking self within yourself and in relation to others. These poems have been written over a period of time and the collection is her third collection of poetry. 

This brave, outspoken book of poetry is a collective response by women to the horror of the images that fill our screens with their grotesque inhumanity, violence and pain. With sickening regularity, newsreaders say, ‘Some viewers may find this report distressing.’ How else could we respond? Director, Lynn Michell, did what she could - she made a book. After a call out, from over two-hundred-and-fifty submissions, we chose those which best expressed an almost unspeakable despair, and hope. Many of those who submitted writing also thanked us for publishing women’s voices that are louder together than separate, and which record a communal cry of shock, disbelief and fear. And amongst the despair, you will find truth, courage and hope.

A perfect, beautiful storm of a novel which brings together the wild backcloth of Patagonia in the 1920s, unrest and revolution amongst the workers, straight-jacketed colonialism, a poignant love story and horses broken and unbroken galloping across the wind-torn plains. Two poignant relationships steal our hearts - between the horse breaker and the governess, and between the horse breaker and his beloved Hero. Both epic and intimate, Kate Beales pulls off a tense, filmic narrative that will keep you hooked until the last page.