Issue 8 – March 2023
Featuring RL Poetry Award winner and 2021 Langston Hughes Fellow Soonest Nathaniel; Pushcart Prize-nominated George Freek and Clive Donovan; also published poets Ken Anderson, Jessica Salvi, Gerard Sarnat, John Grey & Frederick Pollack.
This issue also welcomes the poetry debut of Rebecca Friend.
Poems
GEORGE FREEK – ‘Grief (After Mei Yao Chen)’ & ‘A Short Poem About A Crow (After Su Tung Po)’
KEN ANDERSON – ‘Palace of the Leopards’
JESSICA SALVI – ‘First Dates’ & ‘Prayer to an Aching Heart’
SOONEST NATHANIEL – ‘The Night (After The Bandits’ Attack)’
GERARD SARNAT – ‘Legacy’
JOHN GREY – ‘The Unattained’
CLIVE DONOVAN – ‘The Villa’
FREDERICK POLLACK – ‘Lights Out’
New Poets
REBECCA FRIEND – ‘What Is The Point?’ & ‘Grief’
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Issue 7 – August 2022
Featuring The Pushcart Prize-nominated DS Maolalai & George Freek; poetry prize nominated Yuan Changming; also published poets A.C., Amy Curtis, Ivan de Monbrison, John Grey, Liz Dean, Phil Huffy & Sarah Radice.
This issue also welcomes the poetry debuts of Annie Tallis, Lisa Anderson, Nicola Neal & Yasmin Smith.
Poems
JOHN GREY – ‘My Presence’
PHIL HUFFY – ‘Shallow End’ & ‘Hunted’
GEORGE FREEK – ‘December From My Cabin (After Tu Fu)’ & ‘Bird Chatter (After Li Shaglin)’
IVAN DE MONBRISON – untitled
SARAH RADICE – ‘Stone Carving In My Sleep’ & ‘Last Rites’
YUAN CHANGMING – ‘Immanence’
A.C. – ‘In The Making’
DS MAOLALAI – ‘Miserable, drifting’ & ‘Temple Bar’
LIZ DEAN – ‘Flight’
AMY CURTIS – ‘Nothingness’ & ‘Augustus’
New Poets
YASMIN SMITH – ‘How love feels to me’
NICOLA NEAL ‘ ‘The Lie’
ANNIE TALLIS – ‘Inheritance’
LISSA ANDERSON – ‘Cold Feet’
Issue 6 – February 2022
Featuring The Pushcart Prize-nominated Joan Byrne and George Freek, award-winning writer Bill Cotter, prize-winning poet Judith Wozniak; also published poets Milton Ehrlich, Clive Donovan, Jim Conwell and Nina Lewis.
This issue also welcomes the poetry of Michael Bourne and Rebecca Denvers.
Poems
Milton Ehrlich – ‘Your Absence Is Present’, ‘Gone But Still Here’ & ‘Your Holy Breath’
Clive Donovan – ‘Pastorale’, ‘Forest Walk in Central Europe’ & ‘The Automatic Life’
Bill Cotter – ‘Of Wattles & Memories’
Joan Byrne – ‘Not since birth’ & ‘Pretty stoned’
Judith Wozniak – ‘The Boy In The Window’ & ‘Sparrow’
Jim Conwell – ‘Weightless’
Nina Lewis – ‘Star Mass’
George Freek – ‘Waking On My Birthday’, ‘The River Still Flows’ & ‘Winter As a Question’
New Poets
Michael Bourne – ‘Brief Encounter’
Rebecca Denvers – ‘What I would tell you’
Issue 5 – July 2021
Featuring award-winning writers Bill Cotter and Christine Hamm; novelist and screenwriter Philip Davison; published poets Edward Alport, Mike Cole, Ian Heffernan, Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad and Lorelei Bacht.
This issue also welcomes the poetry of Deborah York.
Poems
Edward Alport – DIES IRA’ & ‘How To Eat Chocolate’
Mike Cole – ‘Bats’, ‘Inebriate’ & ‘Climb’
Bill Cotter – ‘Visiting a Remembered Watershed’ & ‘Visiting an Old Wimmera Home’
Philip Davison – ‘Bowl of Fruit’
Ian Heffernan – ‘Chinese Haiku’ & ‘Nocturne, September 2018’
Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad – ‘Secret Lives’ & ‘Holding Out’
Christine Hamm – ‘they move through their mute rooms’
Lorelei Bacht – ‘Sailor, i refute you.’
New Poets
Deborah York – ‘Thankful’
Issue 4 – January 2021
Featuring multiple ‘Pushcart Prize’ and ‘Best of the Net’ nominee DS Maolalai; as well as published poets Bruach Mhor, Timothy Resau, Cara L McKee, Gerry Stewart, Gillie Robic, Beth McDonough and Leisha Douglas.
This issue also welcomes the poetry of actor and screenwriter Gabrielle Finnegan.
Poems
DS Maolalai – ‘Coathangers’ & ‘Knuckles’
Bruach Mhor – ‘Scandanavia according to Netflix’
Timothy Resau – ‘Leon’s Dream’ & ‘During The First Illness’
Cara McKee – ‘Red’, ‘The same as we’ve always been’ & ‘Donna’
Gerry Stewart – ‘Self-Determination’
Gillie Robic – ‘Fractured’
Beth McDonough – ‘28th of March Between the Port and the Cala’
Leisha Douglas – ‘Stop Here’ & ‘The Order of Things’
New Poets
Gabrielle Finnegan – ‘Dessert’
Issue 3 – July 2020
Featuring literary prize winners Marka Rifat and William Cotter; as well as published poets Bobbi Sinha-Morey, Grant Tarbard, Madelaine Smith, Kathryn Southworth and A C Clarke.
This issue also hands a very warm welcome to journalist/creative artist Daniel Sollé and the exceptionally talented Ed Limb.
Thank you so much to all of our wonderful contributors.
Poems
Marka Rifat – ‘Dear enemy’ & ‘Green Memory’
Ed Limb – ‘Joy, We Win’, ‘Snow’, ‘Attic’ & ‘Rented World’
Bobbi Sinha-Morey – ‘Hulio’, ‘Legacy’ & ‘Prairie’
Grant Tarbard – extract of ‘dog’
Madelaine Smith – ‘Christminster’, ‘Circle Dancing’
Daniel Sollé – ‘Dawn’ & ‘My Boy’
William Cotter – ‘Sputnik’
Kathryn Southworth – ‘Scissors…’ & ‘Building’
A C Clarke – ‘In Praise of Winter’
Issue 2, September 2019
London
Poems
Louis Faber – ‘Mid Morning Song’
Nicola Stringer – ‘London Chronic’
Judith Wozniak – ‘Westminster Bridge’
Ilse Pedler – ‘Museum of Excuses’
William Doreski – ‘The Spread of Unicorns’
William Doreski – ‘A Map of Pre-War London’
Kat Dixon – ‘other people are furniture (on the tube)’
James Bell – ‘parachuting onto Euston Road’
*Original version edited in October 2020 to remove Cai Draper’s poem ‘how we ever/in youngness’
Issue 1, March 2019
Nature
Poems
Ceinwen Haydon – ‘The Welsh Marches’
Suchetana Day – ‘ The Moon Kissed Candlelight’
Linda M. Crate – ‘Right As Rain’, ‘Nature’s Wild Daughter’
Richard Gilbert-Cross – ‘Wetlands’
Kyla Houbolt – ‘Smith Creek After Hurricane Florence’
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