[Front cover: Matt Kelly]
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Editor: Olivia Macassey
Number 55 (Summer 2016/17):
Olivia Macassey / Editorial / 4
Richard Taylor / you, too, have three heads. - Absolute blackness - Amphisbaena / 5
Mary Cresswell / Rats at midnight - Voices of change / 8
Ivy Alvarez / Penelope - Dry Pantomime - Continu, -ing, -ity / 10
Keith Nunes / disquiet among the unloved - take this shovel and dig deep / 13
Brett Cross / terrortory - time.decay / 15
Sahanika Ratnayake / Whakapapa - Blameless - Bird Song / 18
John Geraets / anasuropa - absence of abruptness / 23
Stephanie Christie / three visual poems / 24
Mark Young / the turn of the screw - w/heel - The Aspects / 27
Iain Britton / Cosmic Attitudes - from Enclosed in Parenthesis (Love Songs by Number) / 31
Michael Morrissey / Waiting for Becketo / 36
Michael Steven / Walking to Jutland St / 47
Vaughan Rapatahana / Down at the Schooner Tavern - He kanikani ki te kura - delicious irony / 51
Rata Gordon / How I arrived / 55
Carin Smeaton / shamans n curtains - Frances had no hammer even / 56
Sid Khanzode / Convinced forof) my ( self-less ( sect? - Basil Zaharoff-ed / 58
Michael Giacon / Open / 60
Janet Newman / How to construct a tent / 61
Lisa Samuels / from Mariology/ The Book of Joy / 62
John Downie / Headwound / 64
Caoimhe McKeogh / Five Ways To Be Okay / 74
Fiona Stevens / the great New Zealand poem / 75
joshua morris / lynchpin - fuckedinamachine / 77
Brent Cantwell / Twitterference / 80
Doc Drumheller / Collect Calls Home / 82
Robert Kempen / a landing a mooring a parking / 83
Victor Billot / zero hour - new seasons of the blue fields / 84
Dale Johnson / Ashen Cones / 86
Isaac Brodie / look / 90
Aimee-Jane Anderson-O'Connor / For Further Understanding / 91
Rosalie Liu / we dreamed her / 93
Makyla Curtis / pomegranate / 94
Andrew Maximillian Niss / Loud full journey in the everybody's land / 95
E Wen Wong / Spoon in the mirror / 96
Denys Trussell / Breaking Down Love / 97
Piet Nieuwland / Cliffs / 98
Nick Ascroft / A Kea's Tongue - To McKinnon - Its Beak and Breast in the Blossom / 99
Richard von Sturmer / Resonating Distances 3 / 103
William Direen / For Alan Brunton / 111
Jack Ross / How Many Miles to Babylon? Three Faces of Mike Johnson's Lear / 113
REVIEWS
Jen Crawford / Holly Painter, Excerpts from a Natural History / 132
Jen Crawford / Olivia Macassey, The Burnt Hotel / 135
Contributor bios / 138
