Back Issues

A very few archive copies of QF2-QF9 are still available. Scroll down to read about the delights of each back issue, and click on the button to buy by debit/credit card. If you’d rather send a cheque (for UK orders only) print an order form. All prices include postage.

Issue Nine

The first (and last) QF with a COLOUR COVER, beautifully illustrated by Miss Ping/Julie McDermott.

This issue is loosely themed around 'Light' and we've got articles covering the darkness of surveillance society, the science of light, flaming tea and the tarnished brilliance of St. Tropez along with the usual wide and wonderful selection of poems, stories, drawings and photos.

Issue Eight

the Quiet Feather has come over all mountainous to coincide with the Kendal Mountain Festival. Inside you'll find an interview with mountain man Chris Bonington, articles on the fragile existence of Altai snow leopards, the addictive terrors of climbing, and an Austin 7 race on Skiddaw, and the usual extraordinary Quiet Feather pick and mix of poetry, short stories and illustration. The little dogs are back too.

Issue Seven

Issue 7, another splendid mishmash: Yeti-hunting and coyotes, a milkman and a lovesick robot, flotsam and randomness, 9th century Japanese civil engineering and email spam, tiny tiny dogs and new carpets.

Issue Six

QF Issue 6 has arrived! Hot-air ballooning and horses, love and death, Googling and getting back to nature; fiction, cartoons, poetry, photos, essays... it's a hackneyed cliché but for once (well, maybe the third or fourth time), it's true — IT'S ALL HERE, as they said when they discovered the last it mine in Cornwall... Anyone who was at the Green Man Festival back in the now unimaginably luxurious heat of August will enjoy the Jeff Lewis interview, and anyone who wasn't will too, because he's a talented and lovely man, and was kind enough to draw his answers in cartoon-strip format. Honestly, the trouble some people take... We hope you enjoy it...  Click here to see some pages.

Issue Five

Features a hand-printed rook on the cover.  Issue Five contains William Burrough's Tangiers, Camp X-Ray, an interview with cartoonist Jeffrey Brown, Joanna Newsom's lyrics, Count Lustig – the world's greatest ever conman, plus fiction, artwork, poetry and a recipe by members of The Broken Family Band, Half Cousin, Hush the Many, Danseizure, Tunng and Things in Herds.  Click here to see some pages.

Issue Four

Cryogenics in Slovakia, Mushrooms & mushroom-picking, The Third Man, Gigging in Oklahoma City, The Last Supper, Fear of eBay, Hildebrant & Dug ...and great new fiction & poetry.

Word Market Special Issue

Word Market is an annual literature festival in the South Lakes which includes all sorts of readings, workshops and performances. In 2005 Word Market were kind enough to fund a special festival edition of the Quiet Feather including work from Jo Shapcott and Sarah Hall, alongside local writers including former contributors to the Quiet Feather like Duncan Darbishire, Beth Broomby and Gill Nicholson. It's a beaut.

Issue 3

Including a self-portrait as a house, a near-miss in Iraq, a synaesthesiac child, excellent short fiction, a stroll along a Milanese motorway, plus a word from your temporarily-separated editors. Click here to see some pages.

Issue 2

Including 'reviews on life', a view of Budapest, a poem to take us deep into space and a poem to take us deep into the past, more Hildebrandt and Dug, a peculiar story about the renowned Chester Edvardo, news from the Irish-Italian front, autumn, the meaning of life, a dismal afternoon, a revelation on the way home from the bakery, and the sights and colours of Mali.  Click here to see some pages.

Issue 1 SOLD OUT

Including a photo from Cuba, a song that will make you long for summer (but not in the way you think), a throwing down of the gauntlet to the poets of the past, notes from Uganda, excellent short stories, a poem from the pavement cafés of Milan, an all-new cartoon strip, a dangerous brush with the Italian press, and a foray into the genre of found poetry.  Click here to see some pages.

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