Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Poetry by Daragh Byrne
Daragh Byrne writes informed by his background in physics, a dedicated mindfulness practice and a career building technology.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
5 Poems by Jenny Blackford
Jenny Blackford scooped the prestigious ACU Prize for Literature 2014
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Denise O’Hagan interviews British Eco-Poet Helen Moore
Interview with Helen Moore.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Helen Moore, Featured Poet
Helen Moore is an award-winning British, Sidney based, ecopoet.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
El Medol, Tarragona
Clare Morris regularly collaborates with the abstract artist, Nigel Bird
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Tree of Knowledge by emerging writer Jason Jawando
Jason Jawando has an MA in Creative Writing from the Open University.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Absence Yvonne Brewer
Yvonne Brewer lives in Cork, Ireland and has had poetry published since 2014
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
The skin that separates water and air – Sandra Arnold
Sandra Arnold is an award-winning writer who lives in New Zealand.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Assam. Poetry by Krishna Lewis
Krishna Lewis the Fellows Program Director at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Mittens for Nasma by Tracy Gaughan
Tracy Gaughan presents the popular arts show ‘WestWords’ on Ireland’s Community Radio Network
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Clara Burghelea interviews featured writer Tracy Gaughan
Poetry Editor, Clara Burghelea speaks to our featured writer, author & poet Tracy Gaughan
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Featured Poet- Tracy Gaughan
Tracy Gaughan presents the popular arts show ‘WestWords’ on Ireland’s Community Radio Network.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
The Closest Thing to Home. Fiction Shinjini Dey
Shinjini Dey has been published in Efiction and Cactus Heart Press.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Interval in late June
Andrea Potos is the author of nine poetry collections
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
The Burden of My Star
Alina Stefanescu was a finalist for the 2019 Kurt Brown AWP Prize,
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Irradiated Love
Irradiated Love How I enjoy seeing you in your paper shoes and hat and lilac scrubs, Do with me what you will, Aurelia...
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Dragon Flies & The Funeral
Manoj Nair lives in Bangalore, India. He writes short stories, poems and haiku.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Shelter
Stephen House has won two Awgie Awards (Australian Writers Guild),
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Market Place by Diane Payne
Diane’s most recent publications include: Barn House, Notre Dame Review,
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Waiting for Robin Williams by Mark Blickley
Mark Blickley is a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Scholarship Award for Drama.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Forty-one children
Chris Christopher Kennedy is a Mandarin scholar, poet, journalist and author.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
The Fantastic End of America
R.G. Evans published works include Overtipping the Ferryman (Aldrich Press Poetry Prize 2013)
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Yet another poem about coming home to croaking frogs
Dana St. Mary is a poet and father and husband living in Portland, Oregon
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Featured Poet Alan Britt
Alan Britt served as judge for the The Bitter Oleander Press Library of Poetry Book Award in 2018
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
These are the Thoughts
John Berryman said our poetry should be something no one else could do. I've tried to focus on that idea.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
After The Fight, The Paint
Jill Neimark is the author of adult and children's fiction, as well as a journalist
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
The Present
Jack Houston was shortlisted for the Basil Bunting and Keats-Shelley Prizes.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Small town big wet. Poetry from Ivy Ireland
Ivy Ireland was runner-up in the University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor's International Poetry Prize 2019 with her poem, "The Owl Inside".
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Gated community by Brent Cantwell
Brent Cantwell is a New Zealand writer from Timaru, South Canterbury
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Looping Gravity
Kymm Coveney co-hosts a multilingual poetry recital series in Barcelona, Poémame.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Weightless in San Francisco
Marc Woodward is an Anglo/American poet and musician living in rural South West England
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Poetry by Jennifer A. McGowan
Jennifer A. McGowan has appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, The Rialto, and The Connecticut Review.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Life and Conflict in 2019 New Zealand
Philip Muir savours the power of words as both a mode of communication and as an art form.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
A Venetian Pizzeria at 8 pm
Chloe Marer enjoys gardening, baking, and playing Dungeons and Dragons.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
A Field for the British Isles. Nigel Jarrett
Nigel Jarrett a double prizewinner: the Rhys Davies Award for short fiction and the Templar Shorts award.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Prophecy’ and ‘Harpies’
Kitty Coles' poems have been widely published in magazines and anthologies
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