Can love transcend class inequality? Taking the horse as indicator, Hollywood’s story powerfully examines family, trauma, and what happens when class differences are exposed within a relationship.

In this hilarious and incredibly sharp story, our main character takes us from Southend Pier to Paris, seeking to experience the undeniable cool of the French. All is not what it seems in this commentary on grief and the existential nature of travelling alone.

Ajani’s poems lay flat the inherited weight of colonialism and puncture it through. Read and be ready for a necessary sucker punch to the gut.

In these poems, Hamilton comments on the current political climate in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, provides meditations on pre-and-post lockdown, and imagines being the last of your kind: all to caustic and galvanising effect.

To name something truly is to lay bare what may be brutal or corrupt — or important or possible — and key to the work of changing the world is changing the story. - Rebecca Solnit. Lohrenz examines past trauma head-on as a tool for empowerment, and the results verge on the sublime.

See love from all angles with these three poems from Ayoola Solarin: at once nostalgic, healing, shameful, and transient.