Issue 37 | March 2019 |
Issue 37 | March 2019 |
People Don’t Think About Things Like That- Paul Brownsey
The puppy squirms in Janine's muscular arms as she rings the bell, but its squirming is eager, its energy indistinguishable from delight — delight...
Issue 37 | March 2019 |
The Burden – Essay
The Burden - The Gardener by Rudyard Kipling. By Mike Smith Several critics of Kipling mention this story. It comes in the 1926 Debits and Credits...
Issue 37 | March 2019 |
Aspiring to a watery heroism – Essay by Nigel Jarrett
Nigel Jarrett is a former newspaperman and a double prizewinner as a fiction writer: the Rhys Davies Award for short fiction and, in 2016, the...
Issue 37 | March 2019 |
Blight- New Fiction
My hands are wet. I washed them before I left the house but didn't dry them, the towel in the bathroom already used to...
Issue 37 | March 2019 |
White Ink- Fiction- John Higgins
Yet another pretentious arsehole spouting off about aesthetic theories. What is he looking for? To see how long he can shitetalk before sand falls...
Issue 37 | March 2019 |
Review- case of mis en abyme.
Carla Scarano D’Antonio moved to England (Lancashire then Surrey) in 2007 from Rome (Italy) and started attending creative writing courses. She obtained a Degree...
Issue 37 | March 2019 |
In extremis: Reviewed by Richard Lance Keeble
The life of war correspondent Marie Colvin, by Lindsey Hilsum.
Issue 37 | March 2019 |
Ceinwen E Cariad Haydon- Poetry
BREAKWATER Dusted by sand,
fanned by spring breezes,
she lies in her shingle bed. She and her lover,
dreamed through yesterday:
held real life...
Issue 37 | March 2019 |
Queens of the May and other poems- Catriona Clutterbuck
QUEENS OF THE MAY Mayday. White afternoon light
in the white mouth of the year. Follow a blue thread of sound
to the braid of girls
in their convent-school...
Issue 37 | March 2019 |
Poetry- Harry Dell
What’s False About Cracked Teeth? There are words I will not write here, and not
the ones already locked up in lizard skin. No lock or clasp...
Issue 37 | March 2019 |
Dylan Everett: New Poetry
Textroots. (5 poems) Text/isle roots Tree flow she knows no end in the wind and dirt and poison she breath, no breeze no delicate hope, no...
Issue 37 | March 2019 |
Some Young One
‘I don’t want to go out, you know,’ Louise said as she ran the straighteners through her long blonde hair. Siobhan didn’t answer her. Instead...
Issue 37 | March 2019 |
Writers’ Coaching Clinic : Anne Tannam.
Someone recently asked me why I decided to run a monthly writers’ coaching clinic. After all, I co-facilitate a weekly writers’ forum, so was...
Issue 37 | March 2019 |
Remembrance – A Review
Remembrance is a form of honour. We remember because we love. The more we cherish a memory, the stronger it becomes. Last year I washed...
Issue 37 | March 2019 |
New Poetry- Arthur Broomfield
The return of the artist It was that kind of a once-in-a-lifetime
snow and hailstones day
so dreamed of by smug artists and Yale dons,
dendrological in a...
Issue 37 | March 2019 |
Lucy Durneen- New Poetry
Hill of Moses That argument about the Brontës, I
am thinking of it again
- of Emily, I mean, the unremarkable virgin -
I am thinking of her out...
Issue 37 | March 2019 |
The Wandering Bard- Essay by Frances Browner.
Biography: Frances Browner grew up in Dublin, spent twenty years in New York and now resides in County Wicklow. She has been writing fiction...
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