Brilliant Objects Raj Kumar

Brilliant Objects Raj KumarManhattan, 2083. Sixteen year old Hannah knows that this is the real world. There is no doubt about that. But in this world, the world has taken to the skies. And, out of oil, the climate destroyed, famine, poverty and disease are widespread. History is erased, hierarchies and barriers are broken down and souls cross ages like clouds cross the sky; if something can be imagined, it is possible. But challenges swiftly mount. When Hannah saves a child

furloughing and the economy

to the work of established names likes Charles Way and Frank Vickery

Poems like ‘Calvaries’ lay bare the difficulties of an oppressive religious upbringing

The journal's aim initially

It’s an essay in verse about education and class

velvet touch of the mole’s dark journey

talks about class and politics as well as love and art

innocence and complicity

Azza Kamil al-Maghour

its thinking

home and nations that threaten to befall us all

and full of wonder at the weirdness of the world