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#28 Secret Cities

Submissions for our 28th issue, devoted to secret cities in all shapes and sizes, have now closed. Expect poems about Lego cities, imaginary cities, invisible cities, buried cities, foggy cities, nuclear cities in the former Soviet Union that no longer exist and miniature cities on stilts to appear on the site some time in July 2008!

#27 Experience

After lengthy delays, our 27th issue is now online, having been uploaded over a one month period! Join our guest editor Terry Jaensch and share the experiences of some of Australia’s most innovative and savvy poets including Ouyang Yu, Paul Mitchell, joanne burns, Jane Gibian, SJ Finn and more!

#26.1 White Homes

Prose poetry is the new black. Join guest editor Kristina Marie Darling in celebrating all things prosodical with this special selection of poetry without line breaks from ten of the USA’s finest exponents of the genre including Sarah Manguso, Joshua Clover, Elizabeth Willis, Richard Greenfield and more!

#26 Innocence

For our 26th issue we asked our special guest editor MTC Cronin to select anonymously from hundreds of submissions the best poems relating to the theme of Innocence. Here are the results: poems by 31 poets including Tom Clark, Peter O’Mara, Jennifer Compton, Lee Kofman and (yes, you guessed it) even more!