'Secrets & Wisdom' started life in 2016 as a project with a specific design. The idea was to writ...

Liam is haunted by his age and the history it forces upon him. Yet he is also plagued by the need...

By the time Ian Gouge went to university he had already lived in seventeen different places - hou...

We are all connected. There are links - like links in a chain - that join each of us, everyone to...

Oak Tree Alchemy, the title of this poetry collection brought to you by twelve members of The Poe...

We often encounter difficulty when trying to reconcile our memories of events with what actually ...

Given his profession as a Historian, it was inevitable that Mark would find himself one day writi...

Once members of a writers’ group at the University of Southampton and leading lights in the found...

Myths attach themselves to just about everything. This is certainly true in the case of English n...

Collected together for the first time, Ian Gouge's three novellas: Losing Moby Dick, Writing to G...

When people escaped gravity and started to travel in space, astronauts were amazed by the view wh...

Globally the number of people being creative with language is truly extraordinary. While each of ...

Having received praise for his recent work 'Human Archaeology' - 'a compelling exploration of the...

More and more, the shape of the IT organization is critical to business systems delivery, yet all...

In today's rush towards e-Business many organizations have failed to recognize that the responsib...

If there is a unifying theme running through 'Human Archaeology' it is the relationship between M...

More and more, the shape of the IT organization is critical to business systems delivery, yet all...

Life weaves its magic of triumphs and disappointments everywhere, and often those burdened with m...

'Punctuations from History' is Ian Gouge’s latest collection of poems, a volume that in various w...

Her voice is a trigger; a voice which forces Neil to relive the crises and failures of his past -...

In many ways making the selection of pieces to include in New Contexts: 2 was a much more difficu...

Above all else, this is the story of a journey.Over the last thirty-seven years or so, across a n...

The nature of relationships dominates this international collection of contemporary short stories...

At a recent reading event, I was asked which of my collections was my 'best book'. It was an inno...

Welcome to the fourth edition of our New Contexts anthology. Once again we have been able to harv...

Not the Sonnets

A group of five friends who, some thirty years after they lived and worked in the same town, come...

An Irregular Piece of Sky contains fifteen contemporary stories in which we meet characters tryin...

Take four strangers arriving in London on the same train one weekday morning, then follow them as...

Whenever I pull together an anthology such as this, I am inevitably struck by the quality and var...

In the mid-19th century, Grimsby docks was perhaps the most modern such facility in Britain, its ...

Pebbles on the Strand is an international collection of contemporary short stories which follows ...

Curating a collection such as New Contexts provides its editor with an interesting conundrum in t...

A house filled with history and secrets is more than mere bricks and mortar; not only a mirror on...

'Books talk to the inner person, the secret person; they can make direct contact with all those s...

The poetic monologues in Bound are the unspoken thoughts of individuals who find themselves in si...

In Ian Gouge's eclectic new collection, Dust, dancing, many of the protagonists find themselves t...

So, you think you're a Writer? aims to help you understand yourself as 'a writer' and guide you t...

In a small pub just outside Derby, mid-December 2018, four poets met in order to see if they coul...

In this, the seventh edition of the New Contexts anthologies, the quality of the submissions, the...

Less (adv.) a smaller amount (of)In this, Ian Gouge's eleventh collection of poetry, 'less' is ch...

What do you most need when facing the complete disintegration of the life you have been leading? ...

New Contexts

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