In this issue:

INTERVIEW

David Griessel in Conversation with Pola Maneli 7

POETRY

Dogma, Nick Mulgrew 14 // Identity as a Wormhole in a Hotel Window, Jim Johnstone 18 // Trompe L’Oeil, Jim Johnstone 19 // Hillbrow, Then, K. Goddard 21 // Motherhood, Anastasia DiFonzo 23 // die land wat wild klap, Marieta McGrath 25 // My Body, My Temple, Megan Gieske 26 // in a language of verbs, Robert Keeler 27 // Two Dreams, Maya Pillay 28 // Not Lost in Translation, Rizwan Akhtar 30 // daai klas geskiedenis, Marieta McGrath 31 // Sondag in die suburbs, Wessel Stoltz 32 // Melting Faces at the Park, Sisanda Kubeka 33 // Travelling
to the Crematorium, Stuart Paterson 34 // from M of the Southern Downpour Velez Street, Alton Melvar M. Dapanas 35 // Still in the Ring When the Circus Is Over, Consuelo Roland 37 // The Mantis, T.J. Masluk 39 // last things last, Haidee Kotze 40 // lighthousekeeping / tachyon, Haidee Kotze 43 // Anxiety, Zeenit Jacobs 45 // Offer, Jemima Meyer 46 // Die Middel, Marieta McGrath 47

PROSE

Always Goodbye, Ntando Taro Nzuza 51 // What Ma Says, Kharys Ateh Laue 60 // The Little Skeleton, Stacy Hardy 62 // Rain, David Mann 67

ARTWORK

Balekane Legoabe
Arranger-re 12 // Baby Blue 48 // You are the first of your kind 78 // Elsa 86