Hyphen: An Anthology of Short Stories by Poets

Featuring

Ian McMillan, Ruth Padel, Roddy Lumsden, John Latham, Joe Sheerin, Steven Blyth, Sinead Morrissey, Joanne Limburg, Grevel Lindop, Sean O'Brien, Helen Clare, Anne Stevenson, Gerard Woodward, Matthew Francis, Polly Clark, David Constantine, Sophie Hannah, Cliff Yates, Jean Sprackland & Sheenagh Pugh

Too often the short story is regarded as merely a poor cousin of the novel, a weekend break for novelists - an assumption that demeans the short and neglects the fact that it has an anatomy all of its own. This anthology is a one-off experiment to show how much the short has in common with a very different literary form, the poem. Established and award winning poets from around Britian and the UK have been asked to 'interlope' into the unknown territory of the short - most of them for the first time and each bringing with them a new, poetic perspective as well as an intuitive feel for the snapshot's hidden narratives.