Issue 40 | December 2019 |

Part two of A Critical Examination of 21st Century Poetry. Introduction Oscar Wilde once famously stated that, “All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be…

Clara Burghelea speaks about the struggle and the freedom of writing in a second language.

wings outstretched at fate’s final kick, drawn by the wet light of a simulacrum, a loosened parable of brightness, his in flesh and bone, but insect-like, he drifts

Emma Lee hooked up with feature poet Bill Cushing, teacher and author of the recent collection, A Former Life’

Her Lost Language’ by Jenny Mitchell -Reviewed by Nusrat M Haider

Birds with Horse Hearts’ by Eleanor Walsh -Reviewed by Nusrat M Haider

Susan Howard writes about what affects her and what she observes in NZ and on the world stage.

Nadia Rhook is a white settler historian, educator, and poet.

this hall of several tortures’ by Reuben Woolley -Reviewed by Emma Lee

small inheritances’ by belinda zhawi -Reviewed by Emma Lee

Tea with Cardamom’ by Warda Yassin -Reviewed by Emma Lee

In Nearby Bushes’ by Kei Miller -Reviewed by Emma Lee

Collision’ by Claire Walker -Reviewed by Emma Lee

Boys’ by Daniel Edward Moore -Reviewed by Emma Lee

Skin Memory’ by John Sibley Williams -Reviewed by Emma Lee

Demolition in the Tropics by Rogan Kelly -Reviewed by Ada Wofford

Building a Kingdom ‘ by James W Wood -Reviewed by Emma Lee

Exposure’ by Derek Adams -Reviewed by Emma Lee

Unmarriageable, by Soniah Kamal -Reviewed by Ashini J. Desai

Passengers’ by Peter W Keeble -Reviewed by Emma Lee

John Dust’ by Louise Warren -Reviewed by Emma Lee

Utopia’ by Peter Cowlam, reviewed by Emma Lee

Helen Moore’s ‘The Mother Country’ Reviewed by Emma Lee

Earth Music by Eithne Lannon (Turas Press, 2019) Poetry might be thought of as an endeavour to explore the congruence between two sensitivities:…

James Fountain reviews River Wedding by Amlanjyoti Goswami

James Fountain reviews The Short Story of You and I by Richard James Allen

Dorothy Simmons is an Irish-Austrailian English/Drama teacher whose first ‘published’ work was a stage play (Murray River Performing Group).

Ben Verinder is the biographer of the adventurer and writer Mary Burkett.

Anthony Lawrence’s most recent collection ‘Headwaters,’ (Pitt Street Poetry, 2016) won the 2017 Prime Ministers Literary Awards (Poetry)

Greg Michaelson’s novel The Wave Singer (Argyll, 2008) was shortlisted for a Scottish Arts Council/Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust First Book Award

Brian Kirk’s short fiction chapbook It’s Not Me, It’s You won the inaugural Southword Fiction Chapbook Competition

Glenn Hubbard had a poem entered for the Forward Prize 2018

Reyna Marder Gentin’s novel, Unreasonable Doubts came, out in November, 2018,

Andrew Stiggers is a short fiction writer from Auckland, New Zealand.

Yi-Wen Huang is from Taiwan and an Associate Professor of English and Linguistics at UNM-Gallup.

Lincoln Jaques was a finalist and in the 2018 Emerging Poets.

Hibah Shabkhez is a writer of the half-yo literary tradition

Terese Coe’s collection Shot Silk was short-listed for the 2017 Poets Prize