A modern poetry magazine.

How to Quit Being Kept — Rebecca Kalafatas

you don’t need to exist outside the red earth of your gums. throw away anything that keeps you

Lute Man — Chiwenite Onyekwelu

The man on the sidewalk drags
himself along the tar hands steady
on a lute dust on his shorts

i lay there young buck sanctified your beached body in the way wanting knows

Body — Gabriel Chavez

Eating Cats and Dogs — Kesper Wang

I look at my cat and wonder
If I’d eat him in case of some
apocalyptic event, or if he’d eat me

It's not the end of the world

Back issues

Issue Seventeen

Tongues

It is this uncelebrated marvel which facilitates language and poetry.

Issue Sixteen

The origins of the word 'apocalypse' lie in the phrase 'to uncover'.

Issue Fifteen

Signal

Humans are strange creatures. Some animals keep their codes simple.

Issue Fourteen

Louder!

What do you want to shout about? The poems in this issue talk about what it means to make noise.

Issue Thirteen

Here again

The poems in Here again move between present and past, between reality and the surreal.

Issue Twelve

Arc

An arc suggests movement – a bending toward something, a learning curve, a passage from one place to another.

Issue Eleven

Flower

Flower is an issue about life. Here, the flower becomes a symbol of survival and a marker of remembrance.

Issue Ten

Out

The theme of Out is an invitation to reflect on boundaries: those that hold us in, and those we are looking to escape.

Issue Nine

Bodies

Issue 9 has become corporeal all on its own. We knew Bodies as a theme would pull in different directions.

Issue Eight

Hot Water

The poems in this issue each act as a small window into a life you might or might not have lived.

Issue Seven

Do You Smell Burning?

This issue is about how it feels to be an observer, and what it means to smell the smoke before anyone else.

Issue Six

Pulling Teeth

Pulling Teeth is an issue about pain in all of its many forms – and particularly pain as a companion (or inhibitor) to a journey of growth that is rarely linear…

Issue Five

I Don't Want To Talk About It

I Don't Want To Talk About It is an issue about loud absences…

Issue Four

Feast

These are subversive, wise-cracking troublemakers of poems, and we wouldn't have it any other way.

Issue Three

The Way Back

The tone of our journal is not up to us. It is down to you. Each poet brings a unique story to tell and dances with 'The Way Back' in their own way…

Issue Two

High Tide

Dive in – let the poems carry you through the issue. Watch as details of quotidian life emerge, so specific and unique yet impossibly universal…

Issue One

Roots

We could never have imagined the high calibre of the contributors in our first issue, nor the depth and breadth of their collective imaginations…

Featured Poems

When Darkness Falls — Sergio Ortiz

He gets to my house
with a missing teardrop earring
and a face full of questions.

The Moon, Reversed — Noah Mullinax

When I think about death I imagine
birds flying straight into the Earth.

Chronically Ill Housekeeping — Makena Metz

You live with pain like a fish on a hook
digging into your cheek.

Empirical Incoherence — Gurupreet K. Khalsa

a day fell away
as though the plane had a hole
in its back pocket