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Island 178 out now!
Island 178 comes to you from the depths of an island winter, Jon Kudelka’s robin on our cover a flash of colour in a landscape of misty, drizzly greys. It’s the best time of year for reading. Between these pages, Jonno Revanche will deposit you in the glaring sunlight and cultural complexities of a Greek nude beach; Sue Pedley embarks for Japan amid a crew of 19th century mutinying convicts; Indigo Bailey looks for the perfect paparazzi shot on the island of Stromboli; and Eartha Davis is ‘huddled inside honeysuckle / made house of moving mountains’. Will any of it help you escape your own life? Perhaps: as David Gor tells us, ‘Reading across time is its own kind of travel, not into landscapes but into alternative configurations of consciousness’.
New additions to Island online
current PRINT ISSUE Island 178
Featuring poetry, short stories, new essays, graphic narrative and art features
Cover image: Jon Kudelka, The Turning, 2024
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