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PULP LITERATURE WINTER 2020 IBD

PULP LITERATURE PRESS
01 / 2020
9781988865232
Inglés

Sinopsis

With the beautiful red pointe shoe of On Thin Ice, cover artist Ann-Marie Brown offers this issue&rsquo,s poignant opening act. Just as a dancer en pointe appears weightless, suspended in a moment of grace, so too do our authors, balancing the weight of beauty and sorrow.Blood and booze set the stage in &lsquo,Wrap Party&rsquo, as featured author AM Dellamonica takes us behind the scenes of community theatre.It&rsquo,s turtles all the way down as Frances Rowat explores the itch and scratch of reckoning in &lsquo,The Smell of Antiseptic&rsquo,, and Graham Robert Scott and Wallace Cleaves consider the weight of legacy in &lsquo,A Parable of Things that Crawl and Fly&rsquo,.Two very different genies awake when Susan Pieters casts off ill-fitting confines in &lsquo,Buddha in a Bottle&rsquo,, and Akem explores capture and deliverance in &lsquo,Shotguns and Jinn&rsquo,.Elusive moments slip away as Rebecca Ruth Gould&rsquo,s &lsquo,Hands&rsquo, and Allison Bannister&rsquo,s &lsquo,Ghost Room&rsquo, remind us that love and memory are companion phantoms.Adult children ask what is owed by a daughter to her mother, and a son to his father, as our Hummingbird contest winners, Tatjana Mirkov-Popovicki and Chad V Broughman, explore loss and longing in &lsquo,Afterlife&rsquo, and &lsquo,Featherweight&rsquo,.Poets David Troupes, Matthew Walsh, and Nicholas Alti deftly guide us through landscape, dreamscape, and escape, each finding unique ache in the ties that bind.And finally, two fan favourites reappear: Mel Anastasiou&rsquo,s Frankie Ray arrives in Hollywood in part three of The Extra, and JM Landels gives us a prequel glimpse of Irdaign, her twin sister, and the caper gone wrong that sets the wheel of the Allaigna&rsquo,s Song trilogy in motion.