Contents: Issue 4 – November 2014

Poetry

JO BELL

• The Last First Kiss
• The End of the Affair
• Marriage Is A Room Of Lit Bulbs
• Tuning Up

DAN O’BRIEN

• The Bat
• A Visit
• Four Signs
• A Leaf
• Truro

HILARY HARES

• The Insider

JACQUI ROWE

• Life in a Day

STEPHEN WATT

• Fields
• Trouble Was Someone Else’s Kids

JENNIFER A. MCGOWAN

• Abed
• Wednesday

MAGGIE MACKAY

• The Eviction Notice

MISHKA HOOSEN

• What Song Came From It

TED EAMES

• Mustang Wanted

MEGAN HILL

• Assignment

ANGELA T. CARR

• Persephone Ascends

JEAN ATKIN

• Sleeper
• The Stone Fire

JOHN GOSSLEE

• Sentences from the Dim
• An Informal Greeting

CLAIRE QUIGLEY

• The Library Unbound

WENDY ANN GREENHALGH

• The Sword Swallower
• Breaking Things

GRAHAM BURCHELL

• Perrito

ROY MARSHALL

• Arrival, London, 1989

Fiction

DAVID CALCUTT

• Sirens

PENNY ROGERS

• Repo Day

KIRSTEN MCKENZIE

• Clockwork

MATTHEW KABIK

• The Trick of It

MARIA ANNANN

• How to Wait

GARY BUDDEN

• Gills

SARAH DUTTON

• Maternal Instinct

Theatre

BRANDON WICKE

• Rock, Paper, Scissors

CLARE SHAW

• Tiramisu

SARAH HEHIR

• Echoes Through the Dust

WILLIAM PATTERSON

• One. Two. Three.

Articles

IN-BETWEEN

• Claire Hazelton interviews PP Wong, author of The Life of a Banana (Legend Press).

STORY SABOTAGE

• Angela Readman on competitions and the writers of the 2014 Saboteur Awards.

HONOURING FATHERS AND TELLING TALES

• Jacqui Rowe reviews The Emma Press Anthology of Fatherhood, and The Other Side of Sleep (Arachne Press).

FULLY BOOKED

• Amelia Forsbrook wonders whether it’s possible to script audience interaction.

IMAGINE ANYTHING, ANYWHERE

• Lucy Jeynes reviews Chimène Suleyman’s debut collection Outside Looking On (Influx Press).