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Issue #32: out now

Dani Garavelli looks back to Lepanto

Sasha de Buyl takes the plunge

Shona McCombes plays the hits

Chitra Ramaswamy becomes unstuck in time

Dan Richards braves the Finnish freeze

An interview with Anthony Vahni Capildeo

Poetry by Peter Mackay, Iona Lee, Michael Mullen, Cameron Wilson, Marjori Lotfi and others.