Issue 27
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Eighty pages of poetry prose and reviews.
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Work from Fred Voss, Ken Champion, Peter Day and my good self.
Here’s one of my poems.

The Last Day
(Evening Chronicle photograph:
The closure of Consett Steelworks, Sept.12, 1980)

At the front,
two men and women:
harmony in anguish.

Jaws, smiles, set in steel,
eyes fogged by truth.

Redundancy demolishes their lives.

They stand in my sleep,
dressed in red dust,
waiting for a change of heart,
government reprieve.

They are silent
through all our dreams.