ISSUE 23
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Kufre Usanga
Orality in Amu Nnadi’s A field of Echoes
Amu Nnadi belongs to the third generation of Nigerian poets – the generation whom some critics consider a continuation of the second generation due to a lack of definitive/clear cut ideological …
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Adam Dickinson
You Might Not Think that You Do this, but You Do
Propionibacterium
A young Bill Clinton waited in line until the very last minute before lifting his hand. Forced to take a step forward, President Kennedy faced him squarely …
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George Elliott Clarke
Enoch 4: 1-18
God sculpted wenches way too well:
Thus, even superior angels fell,
brawling to inseminate
beauties, and brats cultivate.Fast, they tutored Eve in Venus guile—
the tricks of mirrors, chimes, face-paints,
and how to tinkle to … -
Dami Ajayi
Dreams
This is what dreams are made of:
sepia scenery,
action creeps in.
My Id is playwright.Dreams shuttle like red carpets
flying over memories,
tall spires & giant Town Hall clocks
stuck in time.Sometimes I shut my eyes…
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Irene Marques
Verbs
I had a verb in my hand. It landed there spit through my insatiable tongue after nights and nights of crouching on the floor, my knees bleeding, a suffering saint, praying, waiting for miracles to appear: like tall, …
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Giovanna Riccio
Monkey Training for a Circus
Give the photographers no more
ops like this denatured rhesus monkey
turned tragic clown. Jammed against
a man-made wall, he would fade out
of his overexposed life,
but a chain collars him to a … -
Literary Images
First “Africa Literary Book Festival,” Berlin, Germany… -
Irene Marques
Fiction Reviews
A Samurai’s Pink House,
by Sonia Saikaley
Toronto: Innana Publications, 2017
120 ppThe Samurai is often associated with honour, courage, aristocracy—and violence too. Being the military high men in feudal Japan, Samurais were bound to …
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Vi Khi Nao
Poetry Review
Streets As Elsewhere
by JL Jacobs
Norman, OK: Mongrel Empire Press, 2014
$15. PP. 92The old copper pipes that heat the apartment are rattling as I read these quietly incisive and transient JL Jacobs’ words, fraying with …
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Gerri Kimber
Fiction Review
The Necessary Angel
by C. K. Stead,
London, UK: Allen & Unwin,2018
220 pp. £15.99I happened to be present at the International Katherine Mansfield Society’s annual conference in 2014 at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, …