issue 5

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Welcome to the fifth issue of harana poetry, the online magazine for poets writing in English as a second or parallel language. 

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poetry

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ER de Siqueira

Fake cherries

Poem

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Aishvarya Arora

Naturalization Test

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Laia Sales Merino

led blue

loca

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Dean Atta

Strawberry Thief

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Piero Toto

Not Everyone I Love Dies

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Jiaqi Kang

hayfever

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Jill Abram

Father Tongue

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Michaël Vidon

le p’tit dej’

Paul Stephenson

Rabo (Tail)

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Jinhao Xie

my own

ye ye

Portrait of My Father Smoking

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Ophira Gottlieb

Or

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Notes on issue 5 contributors

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reviews

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Alice Hiller introduces guest reviewer L Kiew

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a cataract of light

Alice Hiller on language as reclamation in two debuts launched in lockdown by Fiona Larkin and Serge ♆ Neptune

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words across borders

L Kiew on two radical collections which explore ideas of identity, bodies and place in Vietnam and Singapore