Issue Nineteen: Northern Sky

‘Funeral II’ John Stammers

‘The Day after Easter’ Jason Gray

‘Qingming Day: Passing the Lamp’ Chen Xianfa (translated by Martyn Crucefix and Nancy Feng Liang)

‘Leaning into the trouble’, ‘Curse Tablets’ JLM Morton

‘Flag’ Sarah Corbett

‘Gigi Picetti’, ‘Rose of Jericho’, ‘Fruit Bat Villas’ Julian Stannard

‘The Distance’ Paul Stephenson

‘Carcassonne’ Mary Noonan

‘Poem from the New Life’, ‘Blue Suit’ Dane Holt

‘Chronicle’, ‘The giant green plastic bag’ Lesley Curwen

‘The birch’ Alec Finlay

‘Learning to leave’ Erica Hesketh

‘The Shenanigans’ Alice Stainer

‘Not-husband’, ‘Grit’ Marc Chamberlain

‘Stairs’ Tim Cumming

‘Snowdrops’ Erica McAlpine