water fills your mouth as your glass eyes stare from underneath the tap — the old tub holds you cold and mute and your back’s warmth leaches clockwise down the …
Garage [hat] (Ivy Alvarez)
cold creeps in—a song seeps through the cracks it depends on your neck the tie of your knot how your toes swing your fingertips tingle your tongue says the …
AUSTRALIA'S NEW HERO OF MAGIC REALISM: an interview with Glenda Guest
In the literary world there is a propensity for prize-winning authors to be elevated – or to elevate themselves – onto a special pedestal, complete with pretentious black-and-white profile photographs …
Politics of Meat (Shane Jesse Christmass)
I am not eating anymore meat no bleating sheep diced & impaled on my spork but I haven’t got a problem with them German Cannibals that pop up …
The Cosmos Revisited (Alicia Sometimes)
‘If we go far enough back, any two people on Earth have a common ancestor’ Carl Sagan I sit with a postcard that a friend has sent me from Izmir …
Disturbing Things (Kuzhali Manickavel)
K- I can’t even talk right now. It was So. Disturbing. I can’t even tell you how disturbing it was. I am so disturbed by how disturbing it was. S- …
DISTURBING THINGS: an interview with Kuzhali Manickavel
K- I can’t even talk right now. It was So. Disturbing. I can’t even tell you how disturbing it was. I am so disturbed by how disturbing it was. S- …
WHISKEY POETRY: an interview with Tara Mokhtari
ALEC PATRIC When we write a poem we often feel elated. There’s a sense of accomplishment and validation but there’s also the corrosive; the acid in poetry, and when we …