Issue 21 | Spring/Summer 2026

€10.00

104 pages

ISSN: 2009-857X

ISBN: 978-1-917161-23-7

104 pages

ISSN: 2009-857X

ISBN: 978-1-917161-23-7

FICTION
Jeanne Sutton | Gladiators
Beth Kilkenny | Stepping Stone
Joe Cottrell-Boyce | Lucky Punch
Saoirse McCann Callanan | Edith
Rosemary O’ Dowd | Swan Song

NON-FICTION
Catherine Airey | Street View
Ellen Dillon | Capacity
Lorraine Haigney | Always When Outside
Catherine Khédir-Clifford | Desperate Supervision of Koala Licking

FLASH FICTION
Morgan MacVaugh | Mtoto, Panga ya Saidi
Chris Cottom | The Geology of Solitude
Carol Mbugua | How to Fold a Heart
Karen Arnold | Bird’s Nest
Denyse Woods | Refuge

POETRY
Rebecca Ferrier | The Eco-Poem Gains Sentience
Michael Bazzett | And Then He Smiled
Zara Meadows | The Gateway to North Down
Mark Ward | Flâneur
Mai Ishikawa | A Young Woman
Sneha Subramanian Kanta | Woman Without a Country
Ingrid Casey | Tahir’s Cube
Áine Rose Connell | In which I tell him to avoid the wave is to go headfirst into it
Jacob Mckibbin | Elegy For Two Ghosts
Meg Mulcahy | A collection of ways to remember that Clarice is dead
Róisín Leggett Bohan | Willing My Leiomyomas a Heartbeat | Having an Affair with My Therapist
Sean Thomas Dougherty | The Tulip Tree
Olwen Rowe | Four Things I Struggle to Believe
Finola Cahill | Intrusive Thoughts at the Marché d’Aligre
Chris Kitson | Theory:
Karan Chambers | wednesday
Stephen Spratt | Spare Room
Shakeema Edwards | The past effervesces:
Rowan Lyster | Spring
Gerard Smyth | In the Dream Hospital