{"title":"Aftershock","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-aftershock-review-issue-one","title":"The Aftershock Review: Issue One","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMeg's Monday Muse Book of the Week, May 2025\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘NOW MORE THAN EVER WE NEED THE AFTERSHOCK REVIEW\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e– THE PERFECT MAGAZINE FOR OUR TRAUMATIC TIMES.’\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e— PASCALE PETIT\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA bold new literary magazine for our most urgent voices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Aftershock Review is an intervention—a rupture in the poetry publishing scene. Survivor-led, trauma-aware, and artistically fearless, it was conceived from bed by editor Max Wallis, who was disabled throughout 2024 with complex PTSD. This debut issue brings together over 50 poets, aged 17 to 89, whose work confronts trauma with clarity, compassion, and craft.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is not a wellbeing project. This is literature forged from survival—poems shaped by psychosis, PTSD, cancer, addiction, injustice, and the griefs that leave lasting marks. But crisis is not our only mode. This issue also celebrates queer love, tenderness, defiance, and reinvention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn early 2025, we raised £7,000 through crowdfunding and private donations—proof of the hunger for work that speaks from and to the aftershocks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlongside leading voices such as Hugo Williams, Gwyneth Lewis, Inua Ellams, Joseph Fasano, and John McCullough, we honour the late Jackie Hagan—an outstanding performance poet whose voice continues to shake the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpanning sections like A Furious and Tender Reckoning, Naming the Damage, Psychosis \/ Madness \/ Survival, Pop Vision, and Queer Inheritance \/ Queer Disclaim, this issue is a testament to resilience, resistance, and radical craft.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFounded in the North West and shaped by a queer, disabled, and neurodivergent editor, The Aftershock Review is more than a magazine. 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Featured in The Guardian, The Bookseller, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat comes after that kind of earthquake? You’re soon going to be holding it in your hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIssue Two is something different. But also the same. A continuation but also a discovery. 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Across histories of insulin coma therapy and contemporary medication regimes, across queer desire, suburban paranoia, inherited violence and the pull of death itself, this anthology refuses a single story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMadness here is not metaphor. It is political, erotic, ecological, medical, funny, humiliating and fierce.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is no miracle cure in these pages. There is the body. There is memory. There is the system. There is the hum of a fan in a locked room. There is peat underfoot. There is the stubborn, uneasy fact of survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdited by Dr Anna Percy who selected the poems and Max Wallis who helped shape the arc, \u003cem\u003ePsychosis and Our Other Madnesses\u003c\/em\u003e is a reckoning with how we speak about mental illness - and who gets to speak at all.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Aftershock Review","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57411413737854,"sku":null,"price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1331\/9925\/files\/1778754042.jpg?v=1778754891"},{"product_id":"dirty-laundry-br-pocket-aftershock","title":"Dirty Laundry \u003cbr\u003e Pocket Aftershock","description":"\u003cp\u003eWelcome to the second Pocket Aftershock.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSmall enough to slip in your pocket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStill an Aftershock.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDirty Laundry\u003c\/em\u003e is a working-class queer reckoning. A long silken kiss of a collection where extravagance and economy lie together and maybe fabulously shag, or maybe not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese poems carry the outrageous courage of their language; they are a clothesline strung across an alley (with sequinned hotpants). They come from club nights and corridors, from bedrooms and back seats, from the places where queerness is lived before it is named. They sit inside the moment where desire, shame, tenderness and survival meet - not cleaned up, not made palatable, not turned into something safer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eQueer here is not singular. It screeches, scratches, wounds and soars. It holds peace. It holds quiet. It holds roar. This pamphlet is an excavation. A working-class examination of voices that have too often been buried, misheard or made to disappear. 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Issue Three asks, more dangerously:\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eWhat do we need but a bit of hope?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross thirteen urgent sections, Issue Three moves through grief, witness, family, illness, childhood, desire, silence, place and rescue. In An Anthropology of Grief, the dead are not gone: they are carried in ashes, emails, post-mortem reports, river silt and the throat. In The Rear Bedroom, poetry becomes evidence, refusing to look away from war, atrocity and the room that remembers. In What Else Is a Body For?, the body is scanned, judged, medicated, exhausted, hungry and still tender. In Safety Checks, the language of protection turns cold in the mouth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElsewhere, childhood keeps crawling out. Desire becomes whale, knife, crown, cinema, shame. Language fractures across borders and inheritance. Ringroads, lakes, paintings, skulls, emojis and broken rooms gather pressure. 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