After Bugs Bunny in Drag the first real girl I loved sat at the end of the last pew in St Lawrence’s. Next to her, her jet black mother, a …
An Impulse / Action (Robbie Coburn)
Woodstock- struck by winter a cold wind breaks up the sky. cold /makes decisions (ending) a shade of frost descended on the grasses. to the west a light beyond the …
Gathering Experience, Thought, Love and Craft: Janet Galbraith’s re-membering
Review by Robyn Cadwallader On the second page of Janet Galbraith’s first poetry collection, re-membering, there is a definition, a kind of sub-title: ‘to both remember what has been and …
Jimmy Watson’s (Nathanael O’Reilly)
Last time I saw you during the autumn of ninety-two we got drunk at Jimmy Watson’s celebrating your girlfriend’s twentieth You wore your t-shirt inside out making some kind of …
8am (Yolande Norris)
8am at the lights on a wave of fuming plastic, new car smell the son is young and beautiful, dead-eyed out the window Yolande Norris is a writer and producer based …
Breathing significant life into proceedings: Robert Harris’ An Officer and a Spy
Review by Robert Goodman The blurb for An Officer and a Spy refers to its subject – the Dreyfus Affair – as ‘the most famous miscarriage of justice in history’. …
100 holes in my bucket (PS Cottier)
I will never: 1. Bungee, shouting yolo 2. Use the acronym yolo, except in this poem 3. Scuba at sea (it feels like choking even in the swimming pool) 4. …
Grand Mont (Michele Seminara)
A cat scrambles in the cave of my sex my heart is infested by desire; Jupiter has been with Leda and this typewriter is guilty with love. Electrified with memories …
Conflagration (Lizz Murphy)
What noises are they today tonight whose footsteps which train that dog barking who now laughs is it the trees shaking their bellies thundering their fruit even when I am …
Illuminating the Dangers of Going Too Far: Dave Eggers’ The Circle
Reviewed by Robert Goodman Imagine if Facebook, Twitter, Apple, Google and Microsoft were all hoovered up into a single social-media driven, tech-savvy organisation. The Circle is Dave Egger’s vision of …