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Editor: Alex Wild / Poetry Editor: Brett Cross
Number 53 (November 2015]):
Alex Wild / Birthday Editorial (Party World) – Anniversary Editorial (Straight) / 3
Erin Doyle / Epidermis / 5
John Geraets / thirty2 (own) – thirty5 / 10
Ted Jenner / Meadowbank, One Evening / 13
Mark Young / Five poems / 17
Kate Davis / Property Values / 22
Carin Smeaton / Five poems / 30
Jun Moungboon / Benzo & Bunny / 39
Murray Edmond / Four poems / 44
Isobel Cairns / To know a place or a person / 50
Nick Ascroft / Shortcuts to the Art / 52
Stephanie Christie / Ambiviolence – Cure a Casino / 53
Keith Nunes / The World as Pirated by Limousine Jones / 55
Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle / Three poems / 57
Fresh and Fruity / Fresh and Fruity manifesto volume i: Fresh and Fruity is a sexy new look / 58
Richard Taylor / I Am Become Death the Destroyer of Worlds / 66
Jack Ross / Leaves from a Diary of the End of the World / 80
Olivia Macassey / Your eyes are like the stars – The Burnt Hotel / 98
Geum Hye Kim / S/he / 102
Vaughan Rapatahana / Three poems / 105
Rachel Fenton / Through That Which Is Seen: Small Scale Replica of a Scene / 109
Joel Chace / Mouth Pieces 5-9 / 115
Sugu Pillay / Pohara Beach, Golden Bay / 118
Harvey Molloy / At the Armageddon Expo – Grand Theft Aotearoa / 120
Sarah Bogle / 0 >0 / 122
Manon Revuelta / i-vi / 124
Sid Khanzode / Imperfect from the Start / 126
Richard von Sturmer / Ten Days up North / 127
REVIEWS
Richard Taylor / K. M. Ross, The Blinding Walk / 132
John Geraets / Edward Jenner, The Gold Leaves / 144
Contributor bios / 147
