I. The Other Side of Things. from the sequence Sky Gladiatorials Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown made the first non-stop aerial crossing of the Atlantic, Newfoundland to Ireland, 1919.Previous to that, they both flew for Britain in World War I. Alcock ‘was the first man to bomb Istanbul’; then, with plane trouble, [...]
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“Tarmac” and other poems by A.M. Cousins
“English Breakfast Love Song” and other poems by Rhiannon Grant
‘Siegfried’s Homecoming’ and other poems by Suzanne Stapleton

Siegfried's Homecoming You come home from the war at least a third emptier than you were, Like all the words were scooped from your head with the butt of a rifle that you constructed with your own hands and demolished too, leaving so much of yourself in the barrel. The teeth in your gums white [...]
“Backward Glancing on a Tehran Street” and other poems by Lynda Tavakoli

Game On In Syria the shooters choose themes for target practice, a living video game of entertainment for the week. On Saturday it’s chins - anything below the nose, above the neck, and rifle sights explore a quivered lip as points deduct for errors – cheeks and ears are left for Sunday’s sport. On Monday, [...]
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