[ Download Digital Edition | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] In issue 50 of Neon Literary Magazine we take a whirlwind trip through a range of improbable worlds. Artists in semi-submerged communes huff oocytes from test tubes. Tiny gods take up residence in birdhouses. A rusty tank begins a new life as a starship crewed…
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On Certain Days
there is inside my house a flightof rooms removed by halfan inch in a directionthat I can’t quite nameoff a little at an anglelike in the drawing of a childbut how to get there seemsimpossible to figure out. I sometimes feel the wallsand listen. I wonder ifthere’s something hiddenin those rooms. A cornerwhere the puppeteers…
2019 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem Nominations
The Forward Prizes are among the most prestigious awards open to both established and emerging poets in the UK. They’ve been running since 1992, and in that time winners have included poets such as Seamus Heaney, Simon Armitage, Kate Tempest and hundreds of others…
Neon Literary Magazine Issue 46
[ Download Digital Edition | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] In this issue we meet monsters and their mothers. A teenage girl contemplates the burgeoning horror of her family genes, while a werewolf – desperately lonely – struggles to make it in the big city. We visit the beach at night and examine the aftermath…
Commerce
I was caught in the loops of a dream, walking through streets where paint flaked off the walls and buildings crumbledwith the memory of long monsoons. I entered a crowded bazaar. In my hands I held a shapeless parcel, battered,wrapped in dirty cloth. I could readLOVE on it in many languages. Each time carefully crossed…