Review by Robert Goodman The Western is making a comeback. That venerable tradition of horses, six-shooters and life on the frontier is being reimagined in a more visceral form. From …
The Expatriate (Laura Jean McKay)
I hail a motodop. He’s like, ‘Four dollars.’ And I say, ‘No, I live here, it’s two and a half.’ And he asks, ‘There and back?’ I’m …
Competition (Robert Verdon)
sad regions stretch like backyards visited long ago like the tongue encountering an icicle like Jacob in Blake’s painting they loll under the charcoal moon in the hush of the …
Elementals (Stuart Barnes)
Who are these people at the bridge to meet me? They are the villagers— Two. Of course there are two. First, are you our sort of person? The word of …
Rich Evocations of Harsh Realities: Paul Hetherington’s Six Different Windows (Robyn Cadwallader)
Review by Robyn Cadwallader Paul Hetherington’s eighth and latest collection of poetry, Six Different Windows, offers the reader the assurance of being in the hands of a thoughtful, intelligent poet. …
Benefits of Anticipatory Grief (Janet Frishberg)
I’ve forgotten my voice waiting for her to die. I came to say goodbye but I don’t believe it’s time yet and neither does she. Six days ago in San …
Six Untitled Poems (Bekah Steimel)
I. A woman like a swallow’s throat not curled up but slumped suicidal gestures always take too much energy and crash upon the wrong ears this time your own heard …
Taut and Quivering Narrative Traction: Susan Hawthorne’s Limen
Review by Lucy Alexander Limen is the notion of barely perceptible difference, where the senses can barely detect that there is sound, for example, or that the river has edged …
Mykonos (Stuart Barnes)
after Sylvia Plath’s ‘Lesbos’ Friction In that block Of flats. From six A.M. you’d modernise. I’d hammer, call you Sookie, sook. So scared to relish bareback. Designer duds rook …
The Coast Road (Nicholas Brooks)
I started doing it, I guess, because Dad was always working over the school holidays, and because it seemed harmless enough to me. Of course I’d heard the stories about …