Issue Eight • Issue Eight Poetry • Poetry
December 1, 2019
By Angela T. Carr I am not born. Doctors gas my mother and she baulks. Trees creep in, snake the delivery room. She wanders out of...
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Issue Eight Contributor
Sandra Renew was a featured poet for a third year at the National Folk Festival 2019. Her poetry includes a range of critique and...
Interviews • Issue Eight • Issue Eight Interviews
by Nik Shone. About the artist: Shona Blake is a singer/songwriter/writer based on the west coast of Ireland. Her thoughtful prose has a...
Issue Eight Contributor • Past Contributors
Marissa Skeels is a Melbourne-based editor and translator who has lived in Fukushima, Kyoto, and Tokyo. Her translations have appeared in...
By Sandra Renew the revolution of 1863 Singer sewing machines and Butterick/Mc Calls patterns collected in Lever arch files ...
By Owen Bullock Clarence and Marion. The steep path to the door. The view of a distant ocean and near clay tips. High tea spread to...
Kristen de Kline (aka Kristen Davis) is a Melbourne writer who has published poetry in a range of publications including Pink Cover Zine,...
By Drucilla Wall In summer the cattle graze the high patches made rich on limestone leaching into thin topsoil, rain generally...
By Eamonn Wall Today through field glasses I observe one small flock of red-winged blackbirds busy about the Audubon Center, the...
Debbie Lim was born in Sydney. Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies including regularly in the Best Australian Poems...
Fiction • Issue Eight • Issue Eight Fiction.
by Eden van Leeuwen Jumping up and down on the roof the metal banging in my ears the anthem to my tale. Sweat is blooming on my...
By Eamonn Wall —the best teacher lives outside, the best teacher lives inside you, beating blood, breathing air, the best...
By Angela T. Carr Nest of pebbles on the doorstep – a pagan offering, the work of small hands – its matted grass walls,...
Issue Eight • Issue Eight Poetry • Issue Eight Reviews
reviewed by Jayme Constandino. Giant Steps is a modern compilation of the workings from fifty poets where they reflect on the Apollo 11...
Daragh Byrne writes informed by his background in physics, a dedicated mindfulness practice and a career building technology....
By Anthony Lawrence In a river that still reeks of decay, in a time before the weir divided fresh from salt among mangroves that...
By Anne Walsh Visible in the wild wreck I am is the empire I was. My ruin is the most beautiful architecture. Wreckage has made me...
by Peter Boyle. Saint Germain des près, St Martins in the Fields — what are so many churches doing in the meadows? Why are...
By Kristen de Kline, + we loved like demons our kisses, fresh and fugitive we snorted lines as Cave wrestled skeleton trees crooned...
By J.W. Burns hunched against the orange sky, a white horizon nibbling at his bowels. Far below, his sheep hungry, thirsty, horny to...
By Hélène Cardona. when my soul turned round, perceiving the other-side of everything…...
By Anthony Lawrence While the other boys were drawing their guns and falling into the ruins of an open pavilion of sky and pines, I...
Issue Eight Contributor • Issue Eight Fiction. • Past Contributors
Mori Shige (1880-1938) was a university-educated, headstrong feminist writer from Tokyo, Japan, who wrote over 20 novels. She was disowned...
Anthony Lawrence has published fifteen books of poetry and a novel. His books and individual poems have won a number of awards, most...
By Bernadette Gallagher. He talked of grey, of blue, purple and all the possible pigments that make up grey. He talked of trees, of...
Les Wicks achieved the rank of Assistant Station Master in the the 1980s . He qualified in basic accounting, signal box operation,...
JW Burns lives in Florida. Recent publications in Rialto, Adelaide, Menacing Hedge and The Squawk Back....
Bernadette Gallagher was born in Donegal, Ireland in 1959 and has been living in the countryside of Co. Cork since 1986. She worked...
By Matthew M.C. Smith Dream on a breeze of summer eve’s tree-dappled light Do not fear the advancing shadows Let Autumn storms...
Anna Forsyth is an editor, poet and event manager. In 2014, she founded Girls on Key, a feminist poetry organisation, that now hosts...
