Editorials

Alan Humm: a very brief editorial

This spring (2024), the One Hand Clapping site went down. We could never get to the bottom of this but we have, I think, re-posted...

Editorial: 16/6/23

Put me anywhere in the centre of London and I'll tell you exactly where I am: in my twenties, my thirties, my forties or my fifties....

Editorial: 17/3/23

Just before Christmas, my partner and I went to Dublin. Rummaging in their equivalent of Smiths, we found The Ulysses Guide: Tours...

Christmas Editorial: 8/12/22

This is our third Christmas edition. It feels significant, and I'm not sure why. The number three? In any case, I was prompted to go back...

Editorial: 15/9/22

Photograph by Martha Shepherd On 4th September, we hosted our first live event. Imaginatively called "An Evening with One Hand Clapping",...

Editorial: 9/6/22

Our first online issue was published on June 5 2020, which makes us just about two years old. We are, it seems, as tenacious as Boris...

Editorial: 17/3/22

We live in testing times. I have no wish to pontificate about Ukraine or the threat of nuclear war or even about Boris sodding Johnson,...

Christmas Editorial: 15/12/21

I think that it may well be a coincidence that in this issue our Commissioning Editor, Steve Shepherd, mentions a poem that we featured...

Editorial: 28/4/21

I've promised myself that I won't write the equivalent of an Oscar speech, but, God, what a year: the well-known authors that we've...

This Week's Editorial: 30/4/21

Nile Rodgers has a system that he calls "DHM". This, disappointingly, only means "deep hidden meaning" but I like what it means in...

This Week's Editorial: 2/4/21

This week's editorial is written by Nkateko Masinga: "Another Skin Has Come" When I decided to move to Kenya in October last year, I...

This Week's Editorial: 19/3/21

The book above was published in 1981. I must have bought it soon afterwards, because I don't remember a time when I didn't own it. I read...

This Week's Editorial: 5/3/21

Here's a checklist for you. It's an edited version of an article on a site called Writer's Relief and it details what you need to do in...

This Week's Editorial: 19/2/21

We are absolutely delighted to be able to feature Hilary Mantel in this week's edition. Also, of course, our usual selection of poetry,...

This Week's Editorial: 5/2/21

This week's editorial is written by Jo Balmer: In the dark winter days of childhood there was always one morning I looked forward to far...

This Week's Editorial: 22/1/21

This week's editorial is written by Elodie Rose Barnes: This winter, the ground has blanketed itself in snow and ice for months; perhaps...

This Week's Editorial: 8/1/21

Happy new year. As this is the first issue of 2021, I feel that we should probably set out our stall once again. The best way to do this,...

This Week's Editorial: 18/12/20

I love Christmas. I love all of it, by which I suppose I mean its twin poles: the tatty and the austere. I love the story of the...

This Week's Editorial: 4/12/20

This week's editorial is written by Maggie Sawkins: The poet John Burnside said, "Poetry renews and deepens the gift that most surely...

This Week's Editorial: 20/11/20

This week's editorial is written by Agnes Marton: Having grown up in Hungary, I can say I'm quite familiar with Balkan brass bands:...

This Week's Editorial: 6/11/20

When my daughter was learning to read, she used to spell the letters out phonetically. There was a gap before she ran them all together...

This Week's Editorial: 23/10/20

This week's editorial is written by Ben Morgan: How are you? It's a question I used to know how to answer: "Not bad", "good", "doing...

This Week's Editorial: 9/10/20

This week's editorial takes the form of an interview with Peter Moore. The interview is here and here is Peter's blog.

This Week's Editorial: 25/9/20

Last Saturday, I went to the Aubrey Beardsley exhibition at Tate Britain. Beardsley's style was recognisable pretty much from the start...