Avocado - July 2007 – Abolition special issue
 
Commemorating the abolition of the slave trade in 1807, this special issue of the magazine presents poems, stories and essays on the history of British encounters with Africa and the changing nature of Black Britain. We are delighted to feature short fiction by David Dabydeen, Geoffrey Philp and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw; poetry by James Berry, Dorothea Smartt, Ian McDonald; Brazilian and African poetry translated from Portuguese and French; as well as an article on the representation of Voodoo by Louise Fenton.
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Avocado - March 2007 – South African feature

Avocado is the in-house journal of The Heaventree Press and showcases poetry, prose, fiction and artwork, that is fresh, innovative and culturally aware. South Africa is the provenance of and inspiration for the art, poetry, short prose and articles in the March issue of Avocado. We are honoured to be featuring new unpublished poems from the forthcoming Zulu collection by Angifi Dladla, poet, playwright and activist based in Germiston, who struggles under threat of persecution against indoctrination, inequality and censorship; poetry from both South African born Isobel Dixon whose debut collection won the Olive Schreiner Prize for new talent and Booker prize short-listed author of Bitter Fruit, Achmat Dangor; as well as a feature on award-winning narrative artist, Nola Clendinning. Alongside this exploration of the work and homeland of these exceptionally talented artists stand poems from the UK within which we are, of course, delighted to present a section devoted to poets based in the Coventry and Warwickshire area.
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Avocado – November 2006 – Devolutionary Literature Special Issue

Avocado is the in-house journal of The Heaventree Press and showcases poetry, prose, fiction and artwork that is fresh, innovative and culturally aware. Themed to coincide with ‘The Riddle of Devolutionary Literature’ conference at Warwick University, the November issue of Avocado presents poets from Wales, Ireland and Scotland and those writing in regional dialects. We are delighted to be featuring new unpublished poems by Robin Robertson, whose most recent poetry collection, Swithering (2006), was shortlisted for the 2005 T. S. Eliot Prize and won the 2006 Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year); Robert Minhinnick, Welsh green activist, poet, twice winner of the Wales Book of the Year Award and editor of Poetry Wales; and Medbh McGuckian, first major woman poet from the second generation of Ulster poets in Belfast and 2002 winner of the Forward Poetry Prize for best single poem. Alongside these are other distinguished writers of both poetry and prose making up a full and vibrant issue.
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