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Oct 191 min read
Atlantis
You had to be there.
Apr 244 min read
Seven Poems (Assorted)
The Oxford Review of Books presents seven assorted poems from a group of talented writers.
Apr 231 min read
The Pietists
The audience’s conduit is not connecting...
May 29, 20231 min read
Untitled
JULIAN HALL - 'As I walked to Fitness First / I was Blessed'
May 25, 20231 min read
Your Dad Insists On Doing The Barbecue Even Though It’s Not His Housewarming Party
MICHAEL CONLEY - 'We used to have barbecues all the time'
May 24, 20231 min read
Mrs. Peacock's Root Canal
ANGELA CHAIDEZ VINCENT - 'I waited / so long. / But just as it is strange to think of Romans'
Sep 20, 20222 min read
The Ruins of Nostalgia 49
DONNA STONECIPHER - Nostalgia began as an illness with a prescribed cure: opium, leeches, a view of the sufferer’s home Alps.
Sep 20, 20221 min read
Hong Kong, 2003
MARY JEAN CHAN - 'At thirteen, school meant mandatory / medical kits: two face masks, a small ...'
Jul 16, 20221 min read
A Latin American Sonnet XXXIV
LEO BOIX - In 1879 Reverend Dalton took the Princes on board the HMS Bacchante
Jul 16, 20221 min read
EDI for Migrants
MARY JEAN CHAN - post-colony is a state of mind
Jul 14, 20221 min read
If it seems too good to be true, it probably is
MARIA SLEDMERE - 'Romance scams always make me cry
/ my front teeth chipped from the cinnamon cookie'
Jul 13, 20222 min read
The Ruins of Nostalgia 29
By Donna Stonecipher People were getting rid of their libraries, and they sighed with relief when they spoke of it, as though the weight...
Jun 29, 20221 min read
Gran Hotel Infinito
PATRICK ROMERO McCAFFERTY - 'Over every coast a yellow parasail registers the weighty flit / of a stingray the size of Scotland'.
Jun 27, 20221 min read
Pheasants
KATIE KIRKPATRICK - 'three warm bodies in a fridge, / feathers stretching out into the corridor, /
not apologising for taking up space.'
Jun 6, 20222 min read
Symposium in the Trees
JED MUNSON - 'The caveat is essential: the delusion is sincere. // I’m entitled to my obscurity /
and this megaphone as an American'
Jun 6, 20221 min read
Fragments
ANDREW WYNN OWEN - 'I found that I had clambered a steep mountain. / Up there I saw a shelter / with crenellations and a fountain.'
Jun 6, 20221 min read
Sister Cities
GEOFFREY NUTTER - 'What can I tell you about Sister Cities? / You are not one, but a succession of identities, / like them.'
Jun 6, 20222 min read
Blank Rant
ELENA KARINA BYRNE - 'Suppose, pulling yourself apart, you didn't come / in one piece, / and like language, had to be put back together'
May 28, 20221 min read
Exhibition
PHILIP HANCOCK - 'An assortment of sticks / sprouts from a five litre tin / on the work bench.'
May 2, 20221 min read
Border
KATE McLOUGHLIN - 'At midnight, at the border, the train, / Which had roared through birch forests, / Stopped.'
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