Tolka: Issue Five

Tolka: Issue FiveIssue Five of Tolka features an array of established and emerging writers from Ireland and elsewhere. It includes: Isobel Harbison Midnights Women Walter Siti (translated by Brian Robert Moore) The Second Rate Liadan N Chuinn Cackling and Loud Voices Mchel McCann On Music, On Tomorrow Wendy Erskine & Louise Kennedy In Conversation Podge Meehan The man with the bag on his head is living my best life Jiaqi Kang News from Nowhere Shola Von Reinhold Black

Then she walks into the party

it is more than just words under attack

Fuyuko needs to be loved

regardless of the path

A faded photograph

'Exquisite

'I read this beautifully imagined and moving novella in one sitting

For more than twenty-five years

and including interviews with pioneering women such as Baroness Hale

potential and struggles

Sworn to do his duty

and a place to call home