Edited by

Andy Willoughby

and Bob Beagrie

I have been sleeping now for seven years. But look!
The iceberg cracks, the levee breaks, the volcano erupts
and the angry lava spreads like hot mud towards the valley
of the mean villages you call your minds. O ye
breathing corpses, ye scented cunts, cadaverous entities,
I am the actor cursing the snow in Ulysee’s Gaze.

 – (excerpt from ‘Rejection Slips’ by Esiaba Irobi)

UCHE NDUKA

JULY-SEPTEMBER INDEX
COMPETITIONS
DRAMA
ESSAYS & REVIEWS
FICTION
IROBI IN SENTINEL
IROBI, TRIBUTES
POETRY

A Nigerian by birth, Uche Nduka migrated via Germany (where he taught Literature at the University of Bremen) to New York where he has  lived since 2007. His books include Eel on Reef (Akashic Books, New York, 2007); Heart’s Field (Yeti Press, Bremen, 2005); If Only the Night(Sojourner Press, Amsterdam, 2002);

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