Issue 39 | Sept 2019 |
An Astráil: With Denise O'Hagan
Fotoula Reynolds
The Sunday visits Pretty dress on Hair tied up with Daisy pins in Leather shoes Polished and ...
An Astráil: With Denise O'Hagan
5 Poems by James Walton
Modern love tales I’ll put on After the Gold Rush, Sgt Peppers, Blue how much a graph...
An Astráil: With Denise O'Hagan
2 Poems from Randolph Stow Young Writers Awardee, Rosie Bogumil
THE ROADMAP My body is a roadmap, Of white ridges, undulating hills and Curves of red, mingling with...
An Astráil: With Denise O'Hagan
Slide into The DMs. By Erin Francis
FRESH FACES Hello there, may I enquire whether or not you’d like to invest in a face? ...
An Astráil: With Denise O'Hagan
Solo Spooning & Transcendence. Anni Coyne
SOLO SPOONING & TRANSCENDENCE In the whispering silences of post-midnight solitude Where ghosts of rampant angst are...
An Astráil: With Denise O'Hagan
Otherwise Occupied. by Richard James Allen
OTHERWISE OCCUPIED You think I am not listening but I am just not listening to you I...
An Astráil: With Denise O'Hagan
Featured Poet, Anne Casey
AFTER MAKING LOVE WITH THE LIGHTS ON, DOORS WIDE OPEN resting my head on your shoulder...
An Astráil: With Denise O'Hagan
Poetry by E.A Gleeson
This sky we share Just-built houses stretch upwards lunging at ocean views angling out inlanders blocking...
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An Astráil: With Denise O'Hagan
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