CONTENTS

Introduction by Editor Sanah Ahsan

Hasti, Impasse

Yousef Alawi, Palestine’s Poppies, Translation/Transliteration

Liva Jean, Still Life

Regina Avendaño, Baby

Jory Garner, Real Girl

J.J. Carey, Headingley Wants

Danny Carlo Pandolfi, If you bet the whole house how much do you care anyway

Shannon Smith Meekings, In the year before i thought i was in love

Kate Fenwick, Trying to Hitch a Lift Outside the Betting Shop

Alice Weatherley, 16:33

Rowan Lyster, My parents dancing in a 20s dive bar

Zainab Imran, Ghazal

Rose Ramsden, sleepwalking

Marianne Habeshaw, summer prey in the night

E.M. Davis, Duplex for my body

Rona Luo, A short talk on fractions

Oli Isaac, making a scene

Kit Byford, chorus

Phoebe Gilmore, Instructions for the wake