Contents: Issue 6 – November 2015

Poetry

KATRINA NAOMI

• if they came for us

MICHAEL CONLEY

• Trucks

PAUL STEPHENSON

• Midday at the Java Café

GRAM JOEL DAVIES

• Renovation
• The Buzzing Crowd
• Sid is Material

SARAH BUTLER

• It thundered in Harrods
• Rooftops, Havana

AMY McCAULEY

• Oedipa Wiggle Wiggle
• Oedipa Gets Real

DAN O’BRIEN

• The Poet’s New Life
• The War Reporter Paul Watson Salvages the Terror

CATHERINE AYRES

• Lessons from the dispossessed
• The significance of pencils

IAN MCEWEN

• Donors
• On the crane-fly

MARK RUSSELL

• Turbulence
• The Girl of Boscastle

CHARLES G LAUDER JR

• The Color of Mourning

MORGAINE MERCH LLEUAD

• indefinite boundaries

GEORGI GILL

• Imitating Rousseau

SIMON McCORMACK 

• Northern Line

ROISIN KELLY 

• Aquarian
• The Falls Road
• Galway
• Heatwave in the Comeragh Mountains II

BARE FICTION DEBUT POETRY COLLECTION COMPETITION RESULTS

JUDGE’S REPORT

• The results and judge’s report for the Bare Fiction Debut Poetry Collection Competition, judged by Andrew McMillan.

Fiction

ROY MARSHALL

• Late

ANNABEL MACKENZIE

• Half a Smile

JENNI LAWSON

• The Present

BORIS TSESSARSKY

• Nine Kinds of Naked

JADE O’HALLORAN

• Borderland State

ANDY HICKMOTT

• Return to Winnow Holt

ROISÍN O’DONNELL

• Kishi Kaisei

Theatre

WAYNE DEAN-RICHARDS

• Milk

DARIA MIYEKO MARINELLI

• After You

JOANNA GARNER

• Charged

Articles

LIBRETTO

• Catherine Dreyer lifts the lid on how (not) to write for opera.

SCARS ARE WHAT WE ARE

• Lucy Jeynes reviews ‘Don’t Try This At Home’ – Angela Readman’s weird and wonderful debut collection of short stories.

FOOD FOR FORTE

• If you want your poetry nights to have the hushed and genteel air of a village library, you better give Loud Poets a wide berth.

ROLL UP, ROLL UP

• Susie Wild reviews Paul McVeigh’s debut novel ‘The Good Son’.

WATER, WATER, SALT, SUNLIGHT 

• Helen Calcutt reviews Paul Henry’s poetry collection ‘Boy Running’.