Issue Ten

In this decade special, the mammals prepare a lavish banquet of fungi and silken oysters. Welcome to the party. Let’s dress up in the fins of deep-sea fishes and find a fancy photobooth that snaps our pearly auras. Here enemies turn to lovers, kisses are stolen in locker rooms and soldiers reach for each other in their tents. In ten years of Sweet Mammalian it’s not all saccharine – piss rains down, lottery winners grow paranoid, and gloved hands palpate the innards of defrosted possums. We don’t even talk about what happened at the water tower. In wolflike pubescence, we may attain beach bodies or curl back into the shapes of embryos or whales. Come sit with us in the hot pool, a coven of poets cupped in cedar, this ever darkening water studded with stars.

Cover artwork:

‘I am always waking up from a long sleep’

by Saskia Bunce-Rath

 

Issue Ten contents:

Ruben Mita

Elliot McKenzie

Margo Montes de Oca

Naveena

Jackson McCarthy

Joan Fleming

Ya-Wen Ho

Ruby Macomber

Loretta Riach

Hebe Kearney

Richard Reeve

Zoe Higgins

Xiaole Zhan

kī anthony

Dani Yourukova

Josiah Morgan

Sylvan Spring

Belinda Diepenheim

Ankh Spice

Pippi Jean

Emma Shi

Sophie Rae-Jordan

Mikaela Nyman

Sugar Magnolia Wilson

Cover artist: Saskia Bunce-Rath


Sweet Mammalian’s tenth issue brings forth a bumper crop of beachside boys, disgruntled lottery winners, & a founders’ coven stargazing from a darkened spa. In pages fragrant with wood smoke and fungal spores, these poems span transcendental feeling & basest bodily functions. This year, our warm-hearted local literary journal celebrates its first decade of upstart verse with new work from a chorus of new & well-known poets.

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