Contents: Issue 1 – December 2013

Poetry

DAN O’BRIEN

• What the War Reporter Won’t Tell the Poet the Poet Won’t Tell the War Reporter
• The War Reporter Paul Watson and the Arab Spring

JEMMA L. KING

• Shouldering
• Manoeuvres
• Aloïsia

MATTHEW BROOMFIELD

• Matthew 25:40
• Hymn
• Bloom

SARAH HEHIR

• The Pearl Garden
• And In The Morning
• The Wrecking Season
• Man Vs Food
• And This Is Not The End Of You

ADAM HOROVITZ

• Ark
• Thisbë The Verse
• Roots

FRED D’AGUIAR

• 53
• Still

ADRIAN PERKS

• Bamboo
• I Draw A Line

BOYD CLACK

• Grandad’s Ghost
• Cold, Cold Is The Wind That Blows

ROGER GARFITT

• Miles In Paris
• Miles In New York

KRISZTINA FEHERVARI

• The Uniform

AIDAN HEHIR

• The Origins Of Calamity

ROBERT FABRE

• Mass

MARIUS SURLEAC

• Grey Syndrome

CHARLES WILKINSON

• Twitch

MICHAEL NAGHTEN SHANKS

• The Ouroboric Lines Of Communication

YEVGENIY LEVITSKIY

• Espressos In Ecuador

MARION ADAMS

• Swallows

Fiction

ELVIS BEGO

• Werfel & Sons

JANE SLAVIN

• Croatia / Turkey 2008

KATIE BICKELL

• As You Swing At The Edge Of The World

AJ HUFFMAN

• Counting Backwards To Truly Awake

NICHOLAS GRIDER

• Disappearing Act

LINDSAY WALLER-WILKINSON

• Chiaroscuro

ALUN WILLIAMS

• Temperance

MARTIN PORTER

• Ophelia Redux

STEELE CAMPBELL

• Broke In Two

LAUREN BELL

• Snow Devil

Theatre

NEIL BEBBER

• Breathe

ANNA FOX

• Our Common Deception

ELLEN KOIVISTO

• First Class

ANNA JORDAN

• Closer to God

Articles

20 YEARS ON

• Lisa Parry talks with Richard Lewis Davies, publishing director of Parthian Books.

EASTERN MAGICAL REALISM

• Emma Andrew discusses Yangzse Choo’s debut novel, The Ghost Bride, with the author.

ARMCHAIR PHILOSOPHY

• Amelia Forsbrook talks to playwright Neil Bebber.

RETRO READS

• Emma Andrew talks us through a few of her favourite books.

A HEART FULL OF SOUL

• Zoe Karathanasi Rauchvarger look back at the life and work of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay.

A CRITICAL JOURNEY

• Robert Harper talks with poet & playwright Dan O’Brien.

CRACKED

• Lucy Jeynes explores Santé Theatre’s new ethnodrama. A collaboration which brings together a poet, a playwright, a producer and a team of psychiatrists.

THE SHAPE OF A FOREST

• A review by Helen Calcutt of Jemma L. King’s poetry collection which was shortlisted for this year’s Dylan Thomas Prize.