I like the ing in the middle of Birmingham. The middle of the middle of England. I think of Birmingham as somewhere that points in many directions and edges onto other places and sometimes becomes nebulous and tenuous and loses definition—less concrete—which names something that almost seems magical and that I can’t quite put my finger on.

—Editorial, PBLJ7.5, Zaffar Kunial

C O N T E N T S

Editor

Zaffar Kunial

Prose

Gregory Leadbetter and Eric McElroy on ‘The Fetch: Songs of the Uncanny’ • Zannah Kearns in conversation with Julia Copus on This Rare Spirit and the work of Charlotte Mew • Peter Duggal on his new song with Wolgang Flür, ‘Birmingham’

Three Birmingham poets: Adrian B. Earle remembers Leon Priestnall, Myra Connell pays tribute to David Hart, and Zoe Brigley writes about Julie Boden.

Poets

Jason Allen-Paisant • Niall Campbell • Maura Dooley • Isabel Galleymore • Ian Humphreys • Carola Luther • Lias Saoudi • Colm Tóibín