Final Frontier (Joo-Inn Chew)

Between traffic lights the night is dark and shapeless. My father’s van feels like a dented spaceship, dad and I strapped in like astronauts jetting through nothingness. He drives silently, …

Bare (Melinda Smith)

The dead are necessary    they are forked like branches   they have their own names    call them: they are not hiding    what use will you come to ? a eucalypt stag   …

Recompense (Luke Best)

David with the Head of Goliath (Rome) — Caravaggio             Fatality There’s a boy on the wall of my writing space: the all-dark 3a.m. cubicle. …

Leakage (Ian Gibbins)

Artist’s Statement ‘Under the hammer, blessed with character, a driveway absolved of tree fall, another pearly-eyed crow, a year’s worth of indecision on the compost heap…’ The text includes samples …