CONTENTS

Bronwyn Bryant

High Tide at Kuaotunu

 

Kate Camp

How fine it is to be surround by wood

 

Aaron Carter

Finding your way in the dark

 

Mary Cresswell

Don’t mention the war

I will now consider the creative act

 

Lynn Davidson

A Hillside of Houses Leaves

 

Natasha Dennerstein

Carnifex

Skinless, boned

 

Mary-Jane Duffy

Hungry Planet

Stranger things

 

Nicola Easthope

Working the Tang, Birsay

 

Rob Hack

Mangaia, the oldest island in the
Pacific

Souvenir Sundays

 

Jeffrey Paparoa Holman

Memoir II

 

Sue Jamieson

TUBABABY

 

Valerie Kirk

Disraeli Street

Kirsten Le Harivel

Waiting for an answer

 

Rewa Morgan

Capital Lightning (at Bar Bodega)

 

Samiha Radcliffe

Alina

My first mini-series

Our sister's advice on unrequited love

The Talk

 

Tina Regtien

Party Preparation

In the beginning

Henk

 

Sandi Sartorelli

Untitled

 

Lorraine Singh

Salt

 

Elizabeth Smither

A landscape of shining leaves

 

Robert Stratford

SSRI withdrawal

The Terrace

 

Rachel Tobin

the night is steel blue

 

Mercedes Webb-Pullman

Polar Drift

Waiata of waiting

 

Felicity Yates

Between Tzidrá and Hídera (Lesvós)

Red Squirrel (Lesvós)

Mary in the Colonies

Coral Atkinson

Junk Mail

 

Pamela Berard

Love Is a Rose?

 

Fay Cameron

The First Family Photograph

Another Family Photo

 

Penny M Geddis

The Plan

 

Mandy Hager

The Nature of Ash (Excerpt)

 

 

Helen Heath

On hands and being held

 

Lynn Jenner

The term for survivors of the atomic
bombs is 'hibakusha'

 

Maggie Rainey-Smith

The legend of the lost watch

 

Hannah Schenker

A little cuckoo