Issue 56 (October 2018)

[Cover: Matt Kelly]

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Editor: Olivia Macassey
Number 56 (Winter 2018):

Olivia Macassey / Editorial / 3
essa may ranapiri / O|r - gender dysphoria - agonies-Eternity / 5
Makyla Curtis / i am utterly a village / 8
Chris Pigott / The Dispossessed / 9
Bronwyn Lloyd / Afterlife / 11
Loren Thomas / Wrists / 13
John Downie / from The Only Time / 14
Erena Shingade / the poetics of infinity revisited (a flarf manifesto) - Celestial Maps of a Novice Mystic / 22
Carin Smeaton / what to do with them all / 25
Nick Ascroft / Academic Blurbomatic - Bring Me a Pie / 26
David Taylor / The Ploughboy / 28
Erik Kennedy / Tentative Readings / 29
Brent Cantwell / leaving clean - cut-fessions - Janet Leigh / 30
Richard von Sturmer / Four Seed Stories / 32
Vaughan Rapatahana / the raw man - poet in his castle / 36
Norman Franke / Looking for the poet David Howard on the Internet / 40
Sahanika Ratnayake / Case Study #1: Vocabulary Lesson - Case Study #2: Cognitive Distortions - Case Study #3: Chariot / 41
Caoimhe McKeogh / Christmas - Anxiety / 45
Nicholas Butler / Jack in the Box / 46
Michael Giacon / Night Light - sun - shade / 54
Stephanie Christie / Three visual poems / 58
Mark Young / sugarloaded - The Boas ficcione / 61
Iain Britton / polarities / 63
Sugu Pillay / The Painter's Window / 64
Jill Chan / Changes - Dust to Dust / 67
Lisa Samuels / from Symphony for Human Transport / 69
John Adams / sharing a bed with your mother on holiday / 74
Chris Stewart / My father the elephant / 75
Doc Drumheller / The Kids' War / 76
Fiona Stevens / Lamb Spit / 77
Joy Holley / They say "you are what you eat" / 82
Rhiannon Leddra / 21.40.09 / 84
Jasmine Gallagher / Downers / 85
Mark Houlahan / Judith / 86
Piet Nieuwland / Lucid / 88
Keith Nunes / Walking on by / 89
Sarah Penwarden / Tinderness / 90
Richard Taylor / My Voyeur - The Question of Entrance - Being is Seeing / 94
Jack Ross / General Grant in Paeroa / 97

REVIEWS
Stephanie Christie / Vaughan Rapatahana, Atonement / 108
Lisa Samuels / Jen Crawford, Koel / 113
Daniel Williams / Two chapbooks by Denys Trussell & Robert Kempen / 117
Richard von Sturmer / Ted Jenner, The Arrow That Missed / 120

Contributor bios / 122

Issue 55 (January 2017)

[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

Issue 54 (July 2016)

[cover image: Matt Kelly]

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Editor: Olivia Macassey
Number 54 (July 2016):

Olivia Macassey / Editorial / 3
David Lyndon Brown / Five Poems / 5
Richard von Sturmer / Clock Tower, Preston Park / 13
Nick Ascroft / Euphoria, Hemispheres and Hair / 14
Keith Nunes / Two poems / 15
Iain Britton / Eve - Aviatrix - Textbook Drawings / 17
Ted Jenner / from Genius Loci / 24
Piet Nieuwland / Three Poems / 25
Mark Young / Three Poems / 28
Cassandra Atherton / Percussion - Spot - Hygrometry / 33
Vaughan Rapatahana / he wāhine - she caught me - night moves / 36
Carin Smeaton / Shorty - St Kev's Arcade / 41
Bill Wolak / Five Collages / 44
René Harrison / Pinhole - Haunches / 49
Berengaria Burns / Fiery One / 51
Sugu Pillay / Gulf / 52
Ruby Solly / That / 53
Sid Khanzode / Inflicted, they took me to ... / 55
Fiona Stevens / Beholder's Eyes / 57
Isaac Brodie / coming back. / 61
Matt Kelly / untitled / 63
Cassandra Barnett / Pitter patter, Papa-tū-a-nuku / 66
Harvey Molloy / Overburden - Return - Aiutaki Installation / 76
Stephanie Christie / Our Oasis / 81
Robert Kempen / mild weather in near winter / 84
John Adams / A buzzer sounds - Bonsai swimmer / 85
Richard Taylor / from On the Face of The No One / 89
Mary Cresswell / Three Poems / 96
Jack Ross / Brothers / 99
Janet Newman / Tamariki - lemon love / 105
Stu Bagby / Because I once went there - Inland forecast / 109
Sean Redmond / The Love Particles of Eye Tracking / 111

REVIEWS
Michael Onslow-Osborne / Stephanie Christie, Carbon Shapes and Dark Matter / 121
Olivia Macassey / Roger Horrocks, Song of the Ghost in the Machine / 125

Contributor bios / 130