Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Abecedarian
Michelle Bermudez is a Latina poet who received her MFA in creative writing at Adelphi University
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Personal Banking by Linda Wisniewski
Linda Wisniewski's work has been widely published in print and online
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Kurt Vonnegut
Paul Turley is currently studying for a Master of Philosophy degree.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Dry Bones
James Finnegan - shortlisted for Hennessy Literary Award (2018), highly commended in the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Competition (2016, 2018)
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Paris Vagrant. Fiction from Michael Paul Hogan
Michael Paul Hogan is a poet, journalist and fiction writer whose work has appeared extensively in the USA, UK, India and China
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Reflections on home, foreign places and the body
Bree Alexander (also Lika Posamari) writes poetry and more in or between Melbourne and New Delhi.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
The New Order
Dr. Emily Bilman teaches poetry in Geneva as London’s Poetry Society’s Stanza representative.
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The Ant Hill. Fiction by emerging writer Mikael Shamsie
Mikael Shamsie is a Pakistani living in Canada, having previously spent his time moving from place to place
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
For Sale Sign by Colette Coen
Colette Coen is a member of the G2 Writers Group.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
What We Learnt From Vitruvian Man by Joe Williams
Joe Williams is a writer and performing poet from Leeds.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Leda
Hana Meighan is currently finishing her undergraduate English degree at Ulster University Coleraine.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Filigree by Melinda Jane
Melinda Jane, author of the poetry book ‘Nature's Nuptials’ and the children’s book ‘The Currawong and the Owl’.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
In the House at the Edge of the Heart
John W. Sexton’s sixth poetry collection, Futures Pass, was published by Salmon Poetry in 2018.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Miss Elsie Ratchet
Tony DeLorger is the author of twenty-one published books.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Archaeological Poetry
Jodie Hannis is a Midlands-based poet and spoken word artist who is exploring archaeological writing as part of her PhD research with the University of Leicester.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Clara Burghelea’s featured poet, Elliott Freeman
Elliott Freeman is a poet, educator, and game designer living in the mountainous hinterlands of Southwest Virginia.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Degrees of Deception
David Atkinson's collection 'The Ablation of Time' is available through Ginninderra Press.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Ice house and other poems by Moya Pacey
Moya Pacey published her second collection: Black Tulips (Recent Work Press, University of Canberra) in October, 2017.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Featured Poet Paige Elizabeth Wajda
Paige Elizabeth Wajda is a Choctaw writer from California and Head of Poetry for The Selkie.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
The Dweller by Elaine Dillof
After 45 years in the antique business Elaine Dillof, retired, has returned to an early love, writing.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Rob Schackne. Elegy for a bee
Born in New York, Rob Schackne lived in many countries until Australia finally took him in.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
2 Poems from Sandy Green
Sandy Green's first Chapbook is Pacing The Moon. (Flutter Press, 2009)
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
The Beautiful Moment and other poems from Rose Lucas
Rose Lucas's first collection, Even in the Dark (UWAP) won the Mary Gilmore award in 2014.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Dylan Everett. Fall down the wind
Dylan Everett is Adelaide-based Australian poet. He has a background in visual arts and poetry.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Carrion and other poems by Siobhan Hodge
Siobhan Hodge is the co-editor of Writ Poetry Review and winner of the 2017 Kalang Eco-Poetry Award
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Jennifer Compton. All the lonely people
Jennifer Compton was born in Wellington (New Zealand) and now lives in Melbourne (Australia). She is a poet and playwright who also writes prose.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Migraineur and other poems by Michele Seminara
Michele Seminara's most recent collection is Engraft (Island Press in 2016)
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
The Blue Collar Poet. Bill Cushing
As an undergraduate, Bill Cushing was referred to as the “blue collar” poet based on his previous years working at shipyards.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Bedding, poetry by Sandra Renew
Sandra Renew’s ongoing project is the interrogation of gender presentation and the LGBTIQAA gender discourses.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Luminous and other poems. Brenda Saunders
Brenda Saunders was awarded the 2014 Scanlon Prize for her collection 'Looking for Bullin Bullin' and in 2018 she won the Ooodgeroo Nunnucal Prize and the Joanne Burns Award ( Spineless Wonders).
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Heart Lag. Poetry by Rosa O’Kane
Rosa O’Kane's poem Hydrography of the Heart was a commended entry in The Hippocrates Prize 2014
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
House Hunting by Margaret Lee Triplett
Lee Triplett, a gay woman, studied piano performance at the University of South Carolina and computer science at the University of Texas at Austin.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Laura Jan Shore. In praise of foibles
Laura Jan Shore’s poetry collections include Breathworks, Dangerously Poetic Press, 2002 and Water over Stone, IP Picks Best Poetry 2011, Interactive Press. She’s also the author of YA novel, The Sacred Moon Tree, Bradbury Press,1986
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Writing in a second language
La pistola che ho puntato alla tempia si chiama poesia. Non sono una donna addomesticabile. Il poeta non rigetta mai le proprie ombre. Alda Merini, Aforismi e magie Writing in a second...
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
2 poems by Diana Manole
Diana Manole is a Romanian-Canadian scholar, literary translator, and award-winning author of nine books of poetry and drama in her native Romania
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Waxing Gibbous. Poetry by Lucy Dixcart
Lucy Dixcart was shortlisted for the 2019 Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year competition.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Mary Mulholland. The Making of Dreams
Mary Mulholland founded and co-runs Red Door Poets and lives in London.
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