What a month! Burning House Press would like to thank September’s Guest Editor RACHAEL DE MORAVIA for selecting, curating and presenting an INCREDIBLE array of writing and art on the theme/s BELONGING//RETURNING//RETREATING – and for all of the endeavour and hard work that has gone into managing the high volume of contributions received over the month  –  and the wonderful way Rachael has engaged with, and encouraged, submitters to BHP – THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING, RACHAEL!!!

Massive thank you also goes to everyone who contributed to Rachael’s theme/s and all who continue to send BHP your  writing and art – we are so happy and grateful that you entrust us with your work, thank you!!! xX

Here it is, the BELONGING//RETURNING//RETREATING EDITION – every selection in one place for you to read/peruse – enjoy!!! xX

3rd Sep

Last of the Barbary Lions and other poems; a haibun sequence by Rico Craig

 

4th Sep

Street Goddesses by Mary Frances

 

5th Sep

Faulkner on the Balcony by Tristan Foster

 

6th Sep

Berceuses by Petero Kalulé

 

7th Sep

Charlotte Olayinka’s launch speech for Tony Messenger’s “Poems to be found in the desert”

 

Shield by Matthew Jakubowski

 

8th Sep

The Angel to the Seabird Sings by Sarah Wallis

 

Memoriam by Julia Lee Barclay-Morton

 

9th Sep

Three poems by Jude Marr

 

The Orange Line: Collages by Wullae Wright

 

10th Sep

Wisconsin by Sam Lou Talbot

 

11th Sep

Pretty Secret by Derick Dupré

 

12th Sep

Disjecta – Caesura – Membra, from ‘& The Little Light That Escaped (Vedute)’, by Alexander Booth

 

13th Sep

Bomb Nostalgic by Mauricio Montiel Figueiras

 

14th Sep

To Return by Fernando Sdrigotti

 

Learning French in Paris by Damian Kelleher

 

15th Sep

Spanish Moss by Eric Edwards

 

16th Sep

Strangers in Strange Spaces by Mercy Ananeh-Frempong

 

18th Sep

Three poems by Wanda Deglane

 

Grief is a private island by Julia Lee Barclay-Morton

 

19th Sep

One plus one is two point three by Caroline Stockford

 

20th Sep

The farm will have us always by Richard Winters

 

21st Sep

Fifty Years Later by Kate Wooddell

 

Familiar Road by Daniel Fraser

 

22nd Sep

By the Water’s Edge by Susanna Crossman

 

The Green, Green Grass of Ceredigion by Laurence Mitchell

 

23rd Sep

Softness as a cosmology by Rishi Dastidar

 

24th Sep

Reunion by V.C. McCabe

 

25th Sep

Three poems by Mingji Liu

 

26th Sep

Stave in the Autobiography of Sidney Ashe Fletcher by James Gifford

 

Exile, intensive care by Christina Tudor-Sideri

 

27th Sep

Three poems by Mark Goodwin

 

The Watersteps by BR Williams

 

Pacific Coast Highway by Yanina Spizzirri

 

28th Sep

Saudades de Rio by Eva Rosenn

 

Exile is a Fire No One Can Put Out by Annie Q. Syed

 

The House, Cogitatio Amphibolia by Matthew Turner

 

29th Sep

Three poems by Adrian Ernesto Cepeda

 

under there, somewhere by Andy Harrod

 

30th Sep

Mayonnaise (at 3:00pm) by hiromi suzuki

 

Redoubt by John Trefry