Issue 8 / Autumn 2018

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Edited by Erena Shingade
Published March 2018
ISSN 2253-4873

Featuring: Victor Billot, Freya Daly Sadgrove, Lee Thomson, Zack Anderson, Murray Edmond, Courtney Sina Meredith, Manon Revuelta, Naomi Scully.

Art by Harry Moritz

Review by Paula Green on the NZ Poetry Shelf

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Editor’s note

Beyond the paradise of product lines, through an economic wilderness of hollow olives & glycerine drinks, past the invisible homeless & the ghost of Ralph Waldo Emerson (his mum bringing him clean laundry), up a steaming track covered by vaporous cloud—a man with a cowboy hat will lead your pony on.

Dear, dear reader,
If you could drop this issue on the floor of any bedroom:

Its bad sex, self-help gurus & Sunday school cake would grace your house with all the enthusiasm of an existential forest; its indices of maths & physics would elevate your pick-up lines beyond the reach of outer suburbia; its quiet work of saying things (like bees or ants aren’t still when they build things) would secure the satanic moment in your career—

—where finally your portfolio fills: archangels & mountain vistas.

These are our bodies, floating the surface.
This is the moment, built ab ovo.
This is our data, holy & retinal.

Erena Shingade
March 2018

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