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Month: May 2024

Call Reception for a Shove

Call Reception for a Shove The world has changed. It is an old Relief Society home for the abandoned and street lost, now converted to a cheaper hotel of small rooms. The lift is out of order. The last tranche of heat mid-Autumn wrings the air out, squeezing three high 30’s days from the relentless … Continue reading Call Reception for a Shove

Posted on May 15, 2024 by James WaltonLeave a comment

About James Walton

James Walton was a librarian, a farm labourer, and mostly a public sector union official. He is published in many anthologies, journals, and newspapers. He has been shortlisted for the ACU National Literature Prize, the MPU International Prize, The William Wantling Prize, the James Tate Prize, and is a winner of the Raw Art Review Chapbook Competition. His poetry collections include ‘The Leviathan’s Apprentice’ 2015 Publish and Print U.K., ‘Walking Through Fences’ 2018 ASM & Cerberus Press, ‘Unstill Mosaics’ Busybird 2019, and ‘Abandoned Soliloquies’ Uncollected Press 2019.

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