A magazine of poetry and short prose (3 stories 1000-1500 words long). A4 height, A5 width. 60 pages - "hand-made". Work by Richie McCaffery, Steve Ely, Carole Bromley, Roy Marshall, etc. No bios, no reviews. Few of the poems are paraphrasable - duende abounds, for example in Michelle Diaz's "Body" ("How do we locate the haunting in us? ... I am tired of planning my exorcism. Let the ghosts make me a ballroom") or Stuart Charlesworth's "We lie under sky-blue blankets watching nurses" which ends with "The nurses sail around in our blood/ reading books full of ways/ to keep us confined". Not an easy read, but a rewarding one.
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