Bad Kid CatullusHow well do you know Gaius Valerius Catullus, Ancient Rome's most notorious scandal monger, filthsmith and lovelorn wretch? Impress your friends by having his muckiest quotes and most stinging jibes to hand at all times! In this customisable handbook, you'll find him at his most sexy, tender, savage and scurrilous, translated in myriad ways by Sidekick Books' many talented scribes. Catullus is seven genres; emoji Catullus; Catullus in Scots; poems

Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort

Samuel Shimon: The Hedgehog – a chapter from an autobiographical novel

Simon Turner

as well as two Pushcart Prizes and the Porter Prize for Literary Excellence

one a heroic soldier idolised by the city he defends

who has spent a lifetime pondering the true meaning of love – right up until the fateful October morning on which this story starts

the volume includes nine pages of photographs and tributes from fellow poets and writers Saadi Youssef

This book is also available as a eBook

+a special feature on Joseph Brodsky

“He weaves the everyday into wonderfully unravelling works of art

To the north

Guyana and Trinidad