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Autumn 21: Legacies

Skin Hungry

Sheena Patel pleads for human touch

I see it as a door floating in outer space. There are some who are allowed access through this door and there are the rest of us who have to... Read more

IC3 at 20

How one anthology changed the landscape

IC3 contributors reflect on the original publication

Summer 21

15 x 22 / Endgame / My Weapons Are Working People

by Anthony Anaxagorou

Three poems

Epithalamion

by Stephanie Sy-Quia

(a song to cover the cries of a bride; the commemoration of a definitive marriage; to be at the threshold) I know how to cook rice, now. ... Read more

The Cow and the River / Genesis / The Drum Speak of the Boy / The Boy and the River

by Gboyega Odubanjo

Four poems

The Everything List

by Charlotte Geater

Five Dials asked Charlotte Geater to send us an omnivorous list of everything, or almost everything, she’s consumed in the previous month.

Hypochondria of the Heart / Procession

by K Patrick

Two poems

‘Shorter is expected to be less substantial. It feels arbitrary— why would length be correlated with impact?’

A conversation with Natasha Brown

Natasha Brown’s Assembly is a concise, fragmentary novel that runs to 100 pages. Within these tight constraints she finds room to examine th... Read more

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