Category: Issue Four

  • Urn

    Urn

    By Geoff Budden (July, 2005)   Summer school; after school; help from his patient mother; but his stammering tongue still betrayed him in class. School books ill-fit his hands; another bother. Grade Ten was the last one he passed But hammers, planes, plank; these he understood. “Measure twice, cut once”; confidence and certainty. He was…

  • Am I an Angel?

    Am I an Angel?

    By Gerrit Bos   Am I an angel? A messiah? A virgin birth? Or the devil hiding in my neighbour’s shirt? Am I a wicked prince? An evil tyrant? Or simply a lost sheep? Am I a beggar? A warning? The truth? Or plain boring?

  • The Night Wonderer

    The Night Wonderer

    By Senaj Alijevski   Wonders which road to take What am I doing here? And why do I need to be there? Seeing the lights remembers the steps before.  

  • Christmas kisses

    Christmas kisses

    By Anne Casey   We never had it It was something you saw in the movies old ones re-running on tv that handsome couples teasingly kissed under  

  • Interview with Sophie Masson

    Interview with Sophie Masson

    By Arianne James interviewing Sophie Masson

  • Interview with Tricia Dearborn

    Interview with Tricia Dearborn

    Tricia Dearborn was interviewed by Oscar O-Neill-Pugh What are you currently reading? I have a passion for chemistry – my first degree was a double major in chemistry and biochemistry – and my next poetry collection, Autobiochemistry, takes its title from a poem sequence that’s largely autobiographical, but seen through the lens of the chemical…