In this issue:

POETRY

Phelelani Makhanya “A hanging dream” 23
Kerry Hammerton “Dancing” 25
Olwethu Mxoli “Blawa Weekend” 26
Olwethu Mxoli “Mother tongue” 28
Mangaliso Buzani “The dry tongue” 30
Sue Nyamnjoh “A pauper’s burial” 32
Kobus Moolman “What He Wished For” 33
Kobus Moolman “Daily Duty” 35
Jacques Coetzee “Small Miracle” 39
Paul Kammies “The moon’s reflection in a bucket of mop water” 40
Madeleine Bazil “Earthsong” 41
Stephen Symons “The Interview” 42
Alexander Murie “New Perspectives (after Mafika Gwala’s ‘Perspectives’)” 50
Alexander Murie “Square on Loadshedding and the Moon” 52
Shane van der Hoven “i always wondered what white poets” 53
Zeenit Jacobs “The Traveller’s Companion” 54
Rizwan Ahktar “Encounter” 55
Francesco Nassimbeni “Tenebris” 56

PROSE

Yewande Omotoso “Excerpt from The Nine Lives of The General” 59
Karen Jennings “Excerpt from Crooked Seeds” 64
Pravasan Pillay “A Fistful of Dhal” 67
Frankie Murrey “Unwrapping” 72
Hedley Twidle “The Best a Man Can Get” 75