A bold issue packed with imagination and fantasies of a better world.
This publishes Another Moss Side Night by Kevin Otoo. Speaking about his work in 2019, Kevin says:
“Another Moss Side Night was written in 1982 but is set mostly in and around the year 1970 when I had been spending more or less every night between twelve and six in the morning living in a world identical to the one portrayed in the poem.
All of the characters, the places and the incidents that feature in the poem are, for the most part, real and true, including the petrol-bombing of the Western club, which was not really a club at all but just a rather dingy shebeen on the first floor of the same building as the much more conventional and far more popular ‘Nile’ and ‘Reno’ clubs.”
Also in this issue of Write On: Keith Goodall writes about how the other half live in Only The Rich Die Young; nine pieces by members of the group Northern Gay Writers; Peggy Dunn’s exacts revenge using the very latest witching technology; K Shepherd finds a disabled single parent on the edge.
Featured writers:
Tommy BarclayChris CunninghamPaul RaySyd LeafIan EvertonIan EvertonBrian CollingePeggy DunnMonica WalkerDi Williams (d. 2015)K ShepherdJohn GowlingKeith GoodallAlf IronmongerKevin OtooAndy MellettChris CarsonJackie AbendsternD Louise WillnerSarah WardBernadette TweedaleElizabeth Spencer
