ALEC PATRIC You have warned me not to ask you what life in India is like. I wouldn’t even have thought to ask you that, but I must confess, you’ve …
Love and its needs (Ernest Williamson III)
Artist Statement: Love is not merely an emotion; it is a continuous lifeline which nurtures and edifies the soul of the biosphere. The works displayed in this publication illustrates …
TEMPLE OF LITERATURE: an interview with Ruby J Murray
ALEC PATRIC Some of us grow up with a sense of crisis. We have a persistent feeling that there’s a looming catastrophe that we need to respond to in whatever …
Maps to Jakarta (Ruby J Murray)
Living Without a Map I’ve always been proud of my sense of direction. I like that it only takes me once to walk a street and know it. And …
Rage with Exactitude (Emily Manger)
not your usual red sleeves-rolled-up angry a purple angry angry that wears pearls and lipstick perhaps a deep maroon not stamping feet on the floor but nails on the …
AMPERSAND AND ALICE GAGE: an interview
ALEC PATRIC Alice Gage created and edits Ampersand, a biannual literary journal deeply informed by visual art. I’ve always been interested in these intersections of text and image. Cinema’s moving images have …
(Agnieszka Niemira)
through the sound of snow chochoły* dancing in my past in my future (* Stanisław Wyspiański ‘Wesele’)
Blood (Simonne Michelle-Wells)
After twelve years of marriage his fishing hat, which sits forgotten on my armoire, is all that remains. The house creaks and groans, trying to establish a new order. The …
Unroadworthy Love (Demet Divaroren)
We can’t take it for a drive, it’s leaking in three places But it’s smooth to touch The engine’s faulty, it needs a service But it sounds so good …
Shank’s Mare (Shane Jesse Christmass)
O boring dudes step away from the bar & let the rest of us get to the Brandy Stop holding aloof over the full ashtray Fuck off you fops, …