issue 4

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Welcome to the fourth 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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Jennifer Wong

From Beckenham to Tsim Sha Tsui

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Gustavo Barahona-López

My Grandfather, the one with the dog that almost bit me, the one who died of prostate cancer

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Sara Elgerot

Same different

I dream of the root-tree

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S Niroshini

Notes on Lunar Theory

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Ed Garvey-Long

Cackle

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Patrizia Longhitano

Heterosexual Bloodsports

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Bhupender K Bhardwaj

Grasslands

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Pey Pey Oh

Penang

Zazen

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Caleb Parkin

The Ballad of the Morris Omies

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Theodoros Chiotis

baling and reckonings (Ϙ: poem as lesion I)

caesura:abcission

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Daniele Pantano

Death of a Marriage

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Jenny Mitchell

Another language

 

Helen Bowell

Central Pier 4

 

Hideko Sueoka

A Spring Odyssey

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Notes on issue 4 contributors

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reviews

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Alice Hiller introduces guest reviewer Isabelle Baafi

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the hurricane’s roar

Isabelle Baafi explores the defiant and decolonising poetics of Shivanee Ramlochan and Safiya Sinclair

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‘Remember the story’s new ending’

Alice Hiller explores recuperative new work from Jay G Ying

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‘My family shares its voices’

Alice Hiller honours Jenny Mitchell’s refusal of silencing and denial