Open PlanAlice in Wonderland meets David Brent: exploring the humdrum of 9 5 office work. These days most of us earn our daily bread sweating over spreadsheets, agendas and unanswered e mails. There are 10 million office workers in the UK, sharing over 200 million square metres of office space. And yet office work has rarely been the subject of poetry. Graham Fulton writes with wit and compassion of the world of e mails, post its, tea breaks and sickies, of

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‘Come the Thaw’

Issa J Boullata A short story A Retired Gentleman

original poems

Nikolay Zabolotsky

Nikos Fokas

Faraj Bayrakdar

Vénus Khoury-Ghata

[this novel is] at once full of disturbing delicacy

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With a Masters degree in Philosophy and Sociology he worked for many years as a teacher

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