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...

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....

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

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...

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

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...

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,...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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,...

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

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:...

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

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