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  1. Issue · Sep 16, 2026

    If We Gods Could Die For Her by Devjani Bodepudi (opens the original)

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    I don’t say this often, because I try not to say it every time, but I mean it every time: this is a book I am proud to publish.If We Gods Could Die For Her is Devjani Bodepudi’s new collection, coming soon from Sunday Mornings at the River. It runs a Hindu myth, told in the register of scripture, alongside the fractured, unpunctuated poetry of a mother raising a daughter the world has decided to fear. By the end, you realise they were never two stories. They are the same one, told twice, in two

  2. Issue · Sep 10, 2026

    A Workshop, Three Book Launches, the Diary Cover Teaser and a Dutch Design Week Return (opens the original)

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    I have a lot to tell you, so I will get straight to it.Books4Life’s Annual International Event, and Sunday Mornings at the River’s WorkshopOn Saturday 26 September, from 11am, Books4Life is holding the fifth edition of their annual International Event, putting non-Dutch-language books properly in the spotlight. I am running a workshop as part of the day: a one hour session on using poetry as a tool for social change.This is not a workshop about craft for its own sake. It is about what a poem can

  3. Issue · Aug 23, 2026

    When Survival Means Keeping One Eye Open (opens the original)

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  4. Issue · Aug 16, 2026

    Oh, the Book Scams (opens the original)

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  5. Issue · Aug 1, 2026

    The Hierarchy of Interesting Lives (opens the original)

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