Aliya Whiteley
WINNINGS, THE WIRRAL AND THE POET AS ROCK STAR WANNABE
English student Olivia Jessuk recently contacted me on Twitter to ask me some questions about my poem ‘Jesus Lives’. She was reading it for her assignment and came up with a lovely visual response. You can see more on my Writing Page as she kindly gave me permission to publish it here. When it comes…
The Beauty, Aliya Whiteley
‘What’s this one about?’ my husband asks, gesturing at my Ipad. ‘Men having sex with mushrooms.’ This is Aliya Whiteley’s novella The Beauty. It is probably the oddest book I’ve ever read and yes, it is partly about men having sex with mushrooms. The book begins after women have been wiped out by a disease,…