Contents: Issue 3 – July 2014

Poetry

REBECCA GOSS

• There Was A Swing
• The Gymnasium
• Marriage Is A Room Of Lit Bulbs
• Neighbour, With Keys

MARTIN MALONE

• Chicago
• Small Lightening

CATHY DREYER

• Object

P.C. EVANS

• Kamikaze

KEVIN SPENST

• Kidney Renal Failure
• Living In The Future

GARETH WRITER-DAVIES

• Carte Postale

STEPHEN DEVEREUX

• Kadykchan

ZELDA CHAPPEL

• Flesh
• Before The Birds Begin
• Trickster

USHA KISHORE

• Bastard Children Of The British Raj

MELANIE WHIPMAN

• Overdose
• Reprisal

E.M. SCHORB

• Me and My Shadow

PETER BRANSON

• The Deserted Village

EMILY OLDHAM

• Hierarchy

BRETT EVANS

• Hanes

MARY SCHEURER

• Ghosts of Follicle

Fiction

WENDY PRATT

• The Round Thing

RICHARD HIRST

• Flood

JANE ROBERTS

• The Ice House

FRANCOISE HARVEY

• Reconstruction

J.S. VILARES

• Touch

CAROL CAFFREY

• High Plains Drifter

STUART SNELSON

• Scream Quietly

CHARLOTTE SALTER

• The Fall

Theatre

THOMAS MISURACA

• Last Words

MATTHEW BULGO

• On Hold

Articles

ON HANDWRITING

• Elisabeth Sennitt Clough explores dis/location in Michael Ondaatje’s collection Handwriting.

THEY CAME WITH A BOOK

• Shane Morgan interviews playwright David Lane about his writing process and his new play, Stalin’s Daughter.

FUN PALACES

• Lisa Parry chats to some of those involved in Fun Palaces and discovers what the project could mean to theatre practitioners in the future.

PENNED IN

• Helen Calcutt reviews two poetry collections from Penned in the Margins. Digital Monsoon by Siddhartha Bose and Forms of Protest by Hannah Silva.

TAKING A DIP

• Poet Jean Atkin asks Andrew Fusek Peters about the writing of his acclaimed new book, Dip – Wild Swims from the Borderlands.

HOW STORIES DO OR DON’T GET TOLD

• Lucy Jeynes reviews Nicholas Royle’s selection, The Best British Short Stories 2014.