Poetry: Letters to Brazil by Paul Stephenson

Paul Stephenson

Poetry: Wooden doll, total being by Jenna Clake

Jenna Clake

Poetry: There’s chaos in my cornflakes by William Griggs

William Griggs

Poetry: Cassandra by Ruth Blaug

Ruth Blaug

Poetry: clear cut by Mara Adamitz Scrupe

Mara Adamitz Scrupe

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Poetry from the pages of Bare Fiction Magazine.

Poetry: Wild Thorn by Bethany W. Pope

Bethany W. Pope

Wild Thorn by Bethany W. Pope Third Prize in the Bare Fiction Prize for Poetry 2014 Dante cased his suicides in wood; Every tree bled pain and hard stories, so Agony lingered as the corpse cooled... Read More...

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Poetry: The Last of England by Stephen Devereux

Stephen Devereux

The Last of England by Stephen Devereux Second Prize in the Bare Fiction Prize for Poetry 2014 There are black stumps, now, round the Liver Building like rotten teeth in a much-loved mouth and th... Read More...

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Poetry: Let’s send our lovers into orbit by Liz Venn

Liz Venn

Let’s send our lovers where cups are sealed and breath is measured in grams, where things return to them in circles: continents, their own recycled air. Let’s send our lovers outside blue, wh... Read More...

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Poetry: The Library Unbound by Claire Quigley

Claire Quigley

The smell of them is gone: dust-dry, the fear of fire, I used to brush clouds of it from my hair. They were reserved, a parliament of silence, words laced tight inside each slender page. The first... Read More...

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Poetry: Life in a Day by Jacqui Rowe

Jacqui Rowe

Our day was daffodils. I opened my eyes in equinoctial dawn, shaped by winds and cloud saw buds crack that would be fruit for our descendants. No gloom until an evening star told me I was ageing.... Read More...

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Poetry: Dark Journey by David Calcutt

David Calcutt

I came a long way to find you Across the snow-ridged top with its black gash of road Its single tree its burden of sky And the figures buried deep in the ice. Now I’m waiting at the station bu... Read More...

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Poetry: 53 by Fred D’Aguiar

Fred D'Aguiar

Happened to someone else, some place else. Until now, I greet these hot, wet, wide eyes. Here comes that red double-decker bus, with this same number, that I rode from South London to thos... Read More...

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Poetry: The Sword Swallower by Wendy Ann Greenhalgh

Wendy Ann Greenhalgh

The Sword Swallower First it’s cutlery, missing from the kitchen table. Steak knives clinking under your school jumper – holes in the sleeves cut by your elbows, threads you unravel in Geograph... Read More...

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Poetry: Zelda Chappel – Flesh

Zelda Chappel

Flesh It’s the ways our tongues get folded, stealing away my speech. It’s open mouths writing letters, lipped words placed softly in ears precisely. It’s shadows that aren’t what they used to... Read More...

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Poetry: Espressos In Ecuador by Yevgeniy Levitskiy

Yevgeniy Levitskiy

Espressos In Ecuador by Yevgeniy Levitskiy Pablo, a Beretta-carrying barista takes my order down on a rose-colored napkin with a permanent marker, and then walks back into the overc... Read More...

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Podcast #7: Poetry from Jemma L King

Jemma L. King and Robert Harper

Poetry reading by Jemma L. King. Jemma is a founding member of the Centre for Women’s Writing and Literary Culture and has read and published her work internationally. Her debut collection The Shap... Read More...

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Poetry: Aloïsia by Jemma L. King

Jemma L. King

Aloïsia by Jemma L. King The last time, I came to as the coldness surged, like a physical weight behind my eyes and the metallic tang of my baby’s blood gummed my thighs, strung, as... Read More...

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Poetry: Letters to Brazil by Paul Stephenson

Poetry: Wooden doll, total being by Jenna Clake

Poetry: There’s chaos in my cornflakes by William Griggs

Poetry: Cassandra by Ruth Blaug

Poetry: clear cut by Mara Adamitz Scrupe

Poetry

Poetry: Wild Thorn by Bethany W. Pope

Poetry: The Last of England by Stephen Devereux

Poetry: Let’s send our lovers into orbit by Liz Venn

Poetry: The Library Unbound by Claire Quigley

Poetry: Life in a Day by Jacqui Rowe

Poetry: Dark Journey by David Calcutt

Poetry: 53 by Fred D’Aguiar

Poetry: The Sword Swallower by Wendy Ann Greenhalgh

Poetry: Zelda Chappel – Flesh

Poetry: Espressos In Ecuador by Yevgeniy Levitskiy

Podcast #7: Poetry from Jemma L King

Poetry: Aloïsia by Jemma L. King

Poetry: Letters to Brazil by Paul Stephenson

Poetry: Wooden doll, total being by Jenna Clake

Poetry: There’s chaos in my cornflakes by William Griggs

Short Story: Sandgrown by Sarah Brooks

Flash Fiction: Growing Things by Wendy W. Ralph

Short Story: The Old Rehearsal Rooms by Clare Weze

Bare Fiction Prize 2017 Results

Contents: Issue 10 – November 2017

Contents: Issue 9 – April 2017