In this issue:

Artworks & Reviews

• Greatjoy Ndlovu, Alpha Male / Conversations of a Man / Mother’s Love / Nonkululeko
• Cover artwork: Pola Maneli, What Happens Next Came To Me In A Brief Moment of Clarity
• Transcontinental Delay: Wamuwi Mbao In Conversation with Simon van Schalkwyk
• Review: Catallus in South Africa

Poetry

• Busisiwe Mahlangu, I wear mother’s bones
• Melissa Sussens, A New Veterinarian Spends a Compulsory Year Working at a Slaughterhouse
• Stephen Devereux, 2020
• Basil du Toit, Sea languages
• Yuan Changming, Yin/Yang vs Water/Fire: A lesson in Chinese characters
• Anvesh Jain, Voyages
• Susan Woodward, jumpie and winkie
• Sarah Uheida, I was naïve enough to be a woman
• Charika Swanepoel, Anna
• Peter Merrington, Sunday School anniversary
• Zian Viviers, Judas
• Anton Krueger, When
• Angelique Thomas, Wat kriewel in my ma rond Siniko Nomdlomboyi, Undoqo Sisibindi / Akukho nkang’edubul’ingethi
• Lewellin RG Jegels, my karretjie mense
• Sevval Akin, Blood oranges
• Hanta Henning, granaat
• Ferial Mohamed, The Flowerseller
• Omotunde Oredipe, The Offing Place
• Kyle Allan, poem 36
• Nicholas Samaras, How a body becomes California
• Abu Bakr Solomons, Lumumba’s tooth
• Dennis Webster, Morning run in a pandemic

Prose

• Lerothodi Lapula Leeuw, The Waiting Room
• Bongo Rulashe, Askari Surprise at Morule Police Station
• Thomas Pia, The Wishing Well
• Lily Hoang, A Garden
• F.T. Kola, Excerpts from an Encyclopaedia of Fantastical Beings in 999 Volumes
• Stacy Hardy, Men on the Side of the Road