From the Body John Menaghan

From the Body John MenaghanNarratives of the body are versatile and From the Body demonstrates this. Here, there are confessions, recollections, and love letters, all dealing with topics as wide reaching as eating disorders, disability, and gender dysphoria. In this collection of personal essays and creative nonfiction, its contributors have responded to food and the body in intimate but universal ways, sharing experiences that will resonate with readers. Featuring the award

backpacking in Bavaria

Peter Sirr and Damian Smyth

Meanwhile Marilyn sleeps in rollers and dresses like her mother and does what she is told

Banipal 68 – Short Stories introduces 21 diverse

welcome voice in a time of stalled metaphors and gassy rhetoric

where love

a bracelet

is ‘a precarious house’

The poems venture outwards to take in the whole of Ireland

Moscow and beyond

the painter and her reality become more unstable and disorienting

Bernard Adams on George Szirtes's Agnes Nemes Nagy