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Poetry: Imitating Rousseau by Georgi Gill

Imitating Rousseau by Georgi Gill I am surrounded by sketches of parrots and you —turp stained, turps stain, turp-en-tine— you are experimenting with Rousseau’s tiger and explaining. ... 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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Podcast #4: Poetry from Adam Horovitz

Adam Horovitz and Robert Harper

Poetry from Adam Horovitz, the poetry judge in the inaugural Bare Fiction Prize for Poetry 2014. It seems fitting to launch the Bare Fiction Prize with a reading by one of our judges, so today we h... Read More...

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Podcast #3: Poetry from Matthew Broomfield

Matthew Broomfield and Robert Harper

Poetry from Matthew Broomfield. Matthew is a poet from the West Midlands, currently living in Oxford and studying for a BA in English Language and Literature. He was a Foyle Young Poet of the Year ... Read More...

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Poetry: Scratch by Graham Attenborough

Graham Attenborough

It's the loneliness that gets you. The mundane silence of the company you keep, the monotony of your own repeated sighing in unlit streets. And the scratch of the match repeats, over and over, ... Read More...

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Podcast #2: Poetry from Bethany W Pope

Bethany W. Pope and Robert Harper

This week we have a poetry reading from Bethany W Pope. Bethany has published two collections of poetry, A Radiance (Cultured Llama Press, 2012) and Crown of Thorns (Oneiros Books, 2013). You c... Read More...

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Poetry: Impressions Between Places by Adrian Slatcher

Adrian Slatcher

Quoting Clay Shirky on “Cognitive Surplus” And not for the first time. The range of hospitality options is bewildering I sit drinking the house wine. An eighties soundtracks plays loudly ove... Read More...

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Matthew Broomfield poetry reading at our Shrewsbury launch night

Matthew Broomfield

Well this is exciting. We only put the video of Matthew Broomfield up on YouTube last night and it's already had a hundred views. He's a very exciting young poet that we feel is someone to keep watchi... Read More...

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Cracked - Lucy Jeynes explores Santé Theatre’s new ethnodrama

Lucy Jeynes

Santé Theatre’s new ethnodrama is a collaboration which brings together a poet, a playwright, a producer and a team of psychiatrists. The voices warn, ‘They’re coming soon. They’ll come by t... Read More...

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Poetry: Bloom by Matthew Broomfield

Matthew Broomfield

Bloom by Matthew Broomfield “On entendait alors les véhicules cahoter encore dans la nuit d’été, avec leur chargement de fleurs et de morts.”- Camus Dandelions disperse seed... Read More...

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Poetry: Imitating Rousseau by Georgi Gill

Poetry: Zelda Chappel – Flesh

Poetry: Espressos In Ecuador by Yevgeniy Levitskiy

Podcast #7: Poetry from Jemma L King

Podcast #4: Poetry from Adam Horovitz

Podcast #3: Poetry from Matthew Broomfield

Poetry: Scratch by Graham Attenborough

Podcast #2: Poetry from Bethany W Pope

Poetry: Impressions Between Places by Adrian Slatcher

Matthew Broomfield poetry reading at our Shrewsbury launch night

Cracked - Lucy Jeynes explores Santé Theatre’s new ethnodrama

Poetry: Bloom by Matthew Broomfield

Poetry: Letters to Brazil by Paul Stephenson

Poetry: Wooden doll, total being by Jenna Clake

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

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