In this issue:

INTERVIEW

Mermaid Fillet: Wamuwi Mbao in Conversation with Mia Arderne 7

POETRY

Dog and death, Ian Salvaña 14 // Rickshaw, Sihle Ntuli 15 // Unongayindoda, Itswele, Ameva, Mthunzikazi A. Mbungwana 16-18 // The blesser, Gigi Gosnell 19 // Ward capacity: eight, Pamela Vale 20 // Ice cream, Luke Sawczak 22 // Last things last, Haidee Kotze 23 // They don’t play jazz at protests (But lo, they should), Christopher Stolle 26 // Equinox, Matt Hohner 30 // The two fellow performers, Raphael d’Abdon 32 // Love letter to myself, Sean Beckett 34 // Like she never died, Rachel Chitofu 35 // Just in case, Charika Swanepoel 36 // Terrence en Allister, Allison Matroos 37 // Interment, Sudhanshu Chopra 38 // Kantgordyn, Jacomi van der Merwe 39 // Gender-based violence: a South African pantoum, Melissa Sussens 40 // Peat, Janet Remmington 41 // Often, Carla Chait 42 // Meer as Nie, Juhné van Zåyl 43 // God, Kind, Charika Swanepoel 44 // GaPhaahla, Sekhukhune, July 1987, P. Q. R. Anderson 45 // Forwarding, Trevor Conway 48 // A Sunday in February, 1990, Martha Landman 49 // Offer, Juhné van Zyl 50 // Imbali, Izaziso, Idinga, Athambile Masola 51-53

PROSE

The Desert Dog, William Kitcher 58 // Refuge, Prenesa Naidoo 60 // Dissed, Jo-Ann Bekker 68 // Fizza, Itumeleng Qhali 70 // The Void, Tanni Haas 74 // The Affair, Tanni Haas 75 // Counting Flies, Kirsten Deane 76

ARTWORK

Atang Tshikare
Sebatana 10 // Kgotlhano 12 // Diyamaleng 54 // Botlhale 56