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Dream Catcher 25 balances national and international writing. 25 features such published poets as Steven Blyth, Genny Rahtz, Lucie McKee, Michael Swan, River Wolton, Christine McNeill, David Greenslade, Roger Caldwell and Jo Hemmant, publisher of Pin Drop Press, and publishes a poem from the late Matt Simpson. An amazing range from the down-to -earth to the celestial, from the gentle to the brutal. Dream Catcher 25 opens with Adam Price's 'Letter from Iraq' with its mix of loss and perspective in the clash of relationships. Again Dream Catcher 25 offers excellent and often hard hitting short fiction - suspense-full, threating and challenging - over a wide range of subjects. The Scottish author, Douglas Thompson explores the vagaries around a father's death and new to Dream Catcher, the Lincolnshire writer, Sheri Young, reveals stories that combine high emotion and disturbance with the struggle to survive, the fight for an identity. Passion and the tendency toward unexpected attachments are explored in Peter Gilmour's 'Fast Forwards' and Ronan Corrigan's remarkably deceptive 'Emily' as well in Helen Kampfner's 'Gloves'. The peaceful and the violent are juxtaposed in this issue expressed through poetry or fiction.
We are very fortunate to have as our featured artist the excellent Scottish painter Kym Needle whose fastastic images of Australia, where he lived for a time, have been exhibited internationally as well as published in collections. His startling art is displayed on the cover of Dream Catcher 25, and other examples in B/W are in the journal. A frequent contributor to Dream Catcher, Sam Gardiner's celebrated collection The Morning After is reviewed; Jeremy Worman who has appeared in DC his new collection of short fiction, Fragmented is celebrated and the publisher of Cinnamon Press Jan Fortune-Wood, her book Stale Bread & Miracles is also reviewed. While John Baker (considered one of the UK's best crime writers), his Flambard novel Winged with Death is given a close read and assessment. Where possible Dream Catcher tries to give ample information about its contributors in its biographies section.
Dream Catcher contains as much fiction as poetry, and is as much national as international. It knows no barriers or borders. It aims for diversity and excellence, to encompass all subjects and all forms of writing, to represent the contemporary world's cultural mix, to explore subjects that arrest us today. Contemporary Writing for Contemporary Readers.
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List of contributors:Adam Price, Karl Riordan, Lucie McKee, Tony Cosier, Terry Dammery, Frank Brindle, Genny Rahtz, Tim Phillips, River Wolton, C.P. Stewart, Roger Caldwell, Douglas Thompson, Ian Chapman, Adrienne Silcock, Teddy Goldstein, Phil Walsh, Thomas Yates, Gareth Adams, Peter Gilmour, Michael Swan, Helen Kampfner, Sheri Young, Jo Hemmant, Tom Sharp, Matt Simpson, Nicola Daly, Christine McNeill, Ronan Corrigan, Nicola Bray, David Greenslade, Matthew Friday, Stephen Blyth
And the art of Kym Needle |