In the summer of 2018, Tread Softly launched a broadsheet of poetry and short prose. Since then, six issues have featured both familiar and unexpected voices from all over the world. Emerging writers were placed beside established, urban next to rural, a story of here beside a story of elsewhere. This democracy and collision gave the broadsheet energy. Submissions flooded in. Now, a selection of this work is collected in a perfect-bound book, its variety of perspectives and ways of telling more than the sum of its parts.

Edited by Louise Kennedy, Eoin McNamee & Una Mannion