Contents

Introduction

Poems

Jason Armstrong
  untitled
  bank city

Ken Barris
  Drawing a bat
  Dialogue for one
  Long beach

Roy Blumenthal
  Nobody Laughed
  Rubbing up the reader

Michael Cope
  Jim
  The Violin-Maker

Monica Cromhout
  Dandelion Thinking
 
Gary Cummiskey
  Somebody Knows
  This is the Raw Reality

Ingrid de Kok
  Birds at Bellagio

Mike Dickman
  Here is a Rose

Keith Gottschalk
  Joy of Flying
  Now to Begin
  Fast Track

Nigel Gowland
Long-Nailed Girl, Waitress, with Music
Man at Hout Bay

L C Henderson
  The Streets of Cape Town
  Fear of the Mother City

Peter Horn
  The weeping of the penny whistle
  The desert tastes yellow
  Afternoon at the pool

Allan Kolski Horwitz
  What Happened at the Hotel Last Night

Michael Kantey
  This Joy of Landscape
  Beneath the Outstretched Foot

Rustum Kozain
  A different time 
  February Moon
  Home Again

Carol Leff
Mountain Fires
Forgive and Forget

Julia Martin
  Hospital Night
  Seven words of the woman to the morning
  A Small Wind, Breathing

Kim McClenaghan
  The Way of Things

Isabella Motadinyane
  Shadows and Things

Ike Mboneni Muila
  Imabalane song

Siphiwe Ka Ngwenya
  begging

Abner Nyamende
  The Calabash
   Over a Pot of Beer

Vanessa Read
The Concertina Player

Arja Salafranca
  Jo'burg 1998
  The road back from Zeerust
 
Angie Sales
  Ancestor

Anna Varney
  Shunted Around

Wendy Woodward
  Eurydice's Story
  A Wake-up Call

Index of First Lines

Submissions