Issue 21

Issue 21 Contributors
September 2009

Cover art by Ernest Williamson III - world peace held

Cy Mathews - The Return
K.A. Phyn - A Meditation on Heath Ledger’s Cleaning Woman
Jason Morales - 6 p.m. Sunday
Ila Selwyn - stolen voices
Hayden Hyams - Slip Cast. Smoke Fired.
Neesha Bremner - Art — Cherry Stained
Ernest Williamson III - the jazz of old wine
D.J. Grierson - ‘Abraham’: A Soliloquy on Sand.
Michael Botur - Wellington
Aleksandra Lane - Holding hands is so third world
Daniel Larsen - The Day Michael Jackson Died

Submissions for Issue 22 (the last of 2009) close on October 15th for a November release.

Issue 20 & Bukowski's Birthday approaches

Issue 20 has been typeset and is ready for the printers! It's a great issue too. I think they might be getting better and better each time. By issue 40 we'll be golden!



Our next fundraiser is 8 pm August 14th @ Thirsty Dog on Karangahape Rd.

Side Stream poets Miriam Barr, Daniel Larsen & Christian Jensen mash it up with live, improvised jazz by the Dirty Words Live Sessions Band. All proceeds raise money to fund the next issues of Side Stream. MC Shane Hollands.

Charles Bukowski was born on August 16th 1920. He worked in the post office. He was around before, during and after the beat movement. He butted heads with publishers. He wrote about the underbelly, about the fringe. He gave beauty to ugliness. He would have dug Side Stream. Bukowski's Birthday brings the infamous Shane Hollands' Dirty Words Live Sessions together with poets from Side Stream. A three-piece jazz band improvises music and the poet has to follow their lead, winging a performance to whatever it is they have created. It's just electric. $10 on the door to raise funds for the next issues of Side Stream.



Contributors List

Issue 20, July 2009

Cover art by Rachael Naomi Heimann
Jill Chan - Unsimple
Vaughan Gunson - at work
Aleksandra Lane - Nursery Rhyme
Judith McNeil - I wandered lonely
Matt Gould - fair enough
Mark Pirie - Elizabeth 1: The Virgin Queen
Helen Rickerby - Reading the signs
Jonathan Wright - Vodyanoy
Colin Munn - Be Lovers
Ross Brighton - A Note of Apology
Colin James - In Capable Hands



Submissions for issue 21 close on August 15th for a September release.

Side Stream 19

Well, well, looky here, Side Stream has found itself a blog. This could be dangerous.

Issue 19 of your favourite, independent, pocket-sized zine came home from the NEW printers on Thursday looking all beautiful in its lavendar coat. We have a new printer because the old printers bailed on the project; being the big corporate that they are, Warehouse Stationary got itself a new manager who pulled their support by revoking our discount. For a while there we didn't know if we'd find another print shop who would offer the same discount. But lo and behold Rachael's local printers at the Dominion Road shops agreed to support the project and things are all back on track.

I am stoked with this latest issue. We'll be releasing it on May 12th at Poetry Live in Auckland, and then sending them off around the rest of the country and the world. We've now published 88 different poets since we started out in Feb 2007.

Submissions for Issue 20 close on June 15th. See www.myspace.com/sidestreampoetry for submission guidelines and more information. There's also a Side Stream facebook group as well - see http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=29140599067

Issue 19 Contributors List
May, 2009

Stasia Balkarey – Cover art

Vincent O’Sullivan - Witness 217
Rachael Naomi Heimann - Magical
Aidan-B. Howard - The Single Malt
Jodie Butler - I Met a Girl
Carl Palmer - Dad’s Hands
Scott Owens - Spring and All
Hannah May Thompson - Full-Time Writer
Aleksandra Lane - Fishmonger’s Wife
Michael Botur - excerpts from Niche Pandemics
Murray Lee - Pure Evil 5
Duncan - Autistic School-Weekend Report
Jason Morales - circles on water
Colin Munn - Cockscrew

Keep those submissions coming.

Cheers for now.

Miriam Barr
Side Stream editor