Oct
2012 14
2012 14
Spirit Worlds Editorial – Poetry
Despite having been raised Catholic, my brother’s fascination with gaming means that the phrase “Spirit World” conjures up the 28th level of Doom II, so it was interesting for me to see the range of submissions received in response to this edition’s theme: Spirit Worlds. Among the fifty or so submissions, were a range of ...
Oct
2012 14
2012 14
Shadow
They always greet me with this: ‘Come here alone, have you?’ But wherever I go I bring my shadow …forever and forever, it is the shadows that have helped me By lighting up the surroundings When there is no light, I fold it Inside my body It is not till I rise and move around ...
Oct
2012 12
2012 12
Stars over Kai Tak
I still look for your altar; what is left lies dreaming of forgotten stars, teaching constellations to silence. You hunger. My sabaism is a vane that measures your upward gaze, dysphoric I’ll feed you, fill your veins with paper planes but when you are full, I’ll forget you too...
Oct
2012 9
2012 9
I REMEMBER 제주도
for Choi Sung Hee i remember Jeju-do: that living eye, a candy-coloured sky that was remote- controlled by Halla-san, our Lord Muck, or else a lady mountain gathering skirts around her as th’ cloud sucks up rain. i remember 4·3 사건, although we were not there, bullets like a maze, weeping in secluded lanes, wounds ...
Sep
2011 20
2011 20
Poetry
SHINJUKU MORNING Cassandra Atherton You feed me prawn gyozas for breakfast. Early in the morning. In the Shinjuku Prince Hotel. You give each prawn parcel a little squeeze between your fleshy thumb and forefinger before you reach across the table. My mouth opens. A little pink ‘O’ and you fill it to the brim. Pink ...
Jan
2011 5
2011 5
Poetry
Poetry by Benjamin Laird, Raja, Matt Hetherington, Siobhan Hodge and Rory Harris, edited by Miriam Wei Wei Lo...
Jun
2010 20
2010 20
Poetry
Poetry by Liang Yu-Jing, Matt Hetherington, Maxine Beneba Clarke and Susan Hawthorne...
May
2009 10
2009 10
Nailed to the Family Tree
i) Fashion My teacher gives me a book about this German bloke, Marx who reckons religion is the ‘opiate of the people’...
May
2009 10
2009 10
Chinese poetry
EVERY MORNING’S RAINBOW Written in Chinese by Qi Guo Translated into English by Ouyang Yu A red hat An orange tie A yellow shirt A green coat A black trousers...
