Humanagerie

edited by Sarah Doyle and Allen Ashley

176 pages

Published October 2018

Inspired by notions of the animalistic, Humanagerie is a vivid exploration of the nebulous intersection of human and beast. From cities to wilderness, buildings to burrows, and coastlines to fish-tanks, these thirty-two poems and thirteen short stories explore emergence and existence, survival and self-mythology, and the liminal hinterland between humanity and animality. This is an anthology featuring both poetry and prose.

CONTENTS

Animal Apology - Paul Stephenson Beginnings - Elaine Ewart Aquarium Dreams - Gary Budgen Beetle - Sarah Westcott Vixen - Cheryl Pearson Augury - Tarquin Landseer The Orbits of Gods - Holly Heisey Polymorphous / Stages of Growth - Oliva Edwards Pray - Scott Hughes Seahorse - Tarquin Landseer Crow and Rat - James Dorr Phasianus Colchicus - Kerry Darbishire And Then I Was a Sheep - Jonathan Edwards Wade - Tonya Walter Sanctuary - Lauren Mason Sturnidae - Setareh Ebrahimi Rut - Ian Steadman When a magician - Kate Wise Palavas-les-Flots - Paul Stephenson Notes for the "Chronicles of the Land that has no Shape" - Frank Roger Rough Music - Jayne Stanton The Butterfly Factory - William Stephenson Hibernation - Sandra Unerman

Jellyfish - Megan Pattie Barred Owl - Kristin Camitta Zimet Ouroboros - Douglas Thompson The Great Eel of Jazz - Amanda Oosthuizen University Library - Lindsay Reid Vulpine - Tarquin Landseer Sloth - Elaine Ruth White Flock - David Hartley Fishy Business - Diana Cant Wojtek - Mary Livingstone Susheela - Bindia Persaud Fluke - Michael G. Casey Buck and Doe - Jane Burn A structure of perfect angles - Jane Lovell Two Lost Souls - Tracey Emerson Company to Keep at the Harvard Museum of Natural History - Jenny Grassl Last night a deer - Kerry Darbishire Miss Muffet Owns Her Inner Spider - Hannah Linden Dewclaw - Ian Kappos Female Skate - Sarah Westcott Noctuary - Tarquin Landseer Her Audience Shall Stand in Ovation - Jason Gould

Allen Ashley is a British Fantasy Award winning editor and a prizewinning poet. He is the author or editor of fourteen published books including the novel The Planet Suite (Eibonvale Press, 2016) and the short story collection Once and Future Cities (Eibonvale Press, 2009). He works as a critical reader and also as a creative writing tutor with five groups currently running across north London, including the advanced science fiction and fantasy group, Clockhouse London Writers. He is a committee member for the British Fantasy Society. Website: www.allenashley.com

Sarah Doyle is Poet-in-Residence to the Pre-Raphaelite Society, for whom she writes commissioned new work, and co-judges an annual poetry competition. She is (with Allen Ashley) co-author of Dreaming Spheres: Poems of the Solar System (PS Publishing, 2014). Sarah has been a guest reader at numerous poetry venues; has been published widely in magazines, journals and anthologies; and placed in many competitions. She was Highly Commended in the Best Single Poem category of the Forward Prizes for Poetry 2018. Sarah holds a Creative Writing MA from Royal Holloway College, University of London, and works as a freelance manuscript critique provider. Website: www.sarahdoyle.co.uk