The Quarterday Review is an award-nominated international literary journal dedicated to classical poetry forms from around the world, published from Scotland. We also publish literary criticism and reviews of poetry chapbooks and anthologies every quarter. The Quarterday Review is a venue for long poetry, epic, and narrative poetry. Outstanding poets from across the English-speaking world have contributed to this issue, tackling themes of summer, and the darkness of our time. Our writers explore their imagination with the gothic, the mythic, the fantastic and tackle head-on the great issues of our time, including biting political commentary and satire on Brexit and the rise of authoritarian nationalism in the UK and USA. With contributions from poets Jane Yolen, Marcus Bales, Nick Humez, and Brian Allgar, among others, this issue is set to be the best yet. Quarterday is seasonally themed and is published on or as near to the ancient Celtic quarter days as possible, with issues appearing in February, May, August, and October.