CONTENTS

Jan Bolwell

Going Up Central (excerpt)

 

Peter Farrell

Turning the Tables

 

Anahera Gildea

Te Whare Ngaro

 

Helen Heath

Taking Care of Animals

 

Adrienne Jansen

The Campaign

 

Marion Jones

Two Women

 

Libby List

Knowing (excerpt)

 

Cushla Managh

The Goldilocks Zone (excerpt)

 

L C McCahon

The Beginning

 

Mikaela Nyman

Paper Town (excerpt)

 

Jon Saunders

Not Clade

 

 

 

 

James Brown

Stan and the Cellphone

The Worst Job in the World

 

Rachel Bush

Four

 

Mary Cresswell

The Madwoman in the Attic

 

Natasha Dennerstein

Bunga Merah (Red Flower)

Island of the Gods

Kupa Kupa Malam (Butterfly of the Night)

 

Mary-Jane Duffy

She breaks down

 

Nicola Easthope

4th Form Human Reproduction

 

Holly Jane Ewens

Explaining Cremation to a
Six-year-old

Testpots For Your Casket

When Bodies Fail Us

 

Rob Hack

James Cook couldn't land and Elvis never sang on Niue

No Company Today

Three old women raking leaves

 

Adrienne Jansen

The carpet sweeper 1952

The wind is tired of being blamed for everything

 

Marion Jones

Educational Change

Elsie

 

Helen Lehndorf

Boots and all, you foolish thing

thank you i’m sorry

 

John McLister

How We Played The Game

Search Engine

Rewa Morgan

Aro hā

For J.K.B.

Mental health initiatives for April

 

Bill Nelson

On Hold

Vocal

 

Vivienne Plumb

Crumple

severe weather warnings

 

Samiha Radcliffe

Reunion

 

Maggie Rainey-Smith

Quite an Assistant (The Coroner’s Report)

That summer

 

Tina Regtien

Beloved: a time line

Pollination

 

Rachel Sawaya

Black Eyed Pearls

 

Lorraine Singh

Eve’s Art Room

Frosted Bowls

Manta Ray

 

Elizabeth Smither

Sa taille svelte de jeune fille

The eye is badly designed

The young women at the station

 

Robert Stratford

The postmodern poetry corporation blues

 

Mercedes Webb-Pullman

The High Mesa