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Let's talk about wallpaper - and poetry
I’m not going to say that publishing a magazine is easier than wallpapering at 8.30 in the morning. But I am going to say they come from the same place.
 • Max Wallis (Aftershock Review)
Fuck / Nestlé by Inua Ellams
'Mariam laughing that she'd started lactating / become fountain of youth / her body a freestanding factory for one / calls months later / when in the…
 • Max Wallis (Aftershock Review) and Inua Ellams
Spoils by Clare Pollard & ruminations on poetry
Read by Clare Pollard! 'Honey's always seemed too sweet. / A mawkish gold I never earned.'
 • Max Wallis (Aftershock Review) and Clare Pollard
The Craving by Clare Pollard
'A word I hear a lot now is 'resilience'. / I like to be rejected very privately, / ideally via an email or a letter I can open / in a locked bathroom.'
 • Max Wallis (Aftershock Review) and Clare Pollard
Lessons Learned in Prison by Dominique Dunne
'The things you learned from prison, / regressing back to school. // I would bring you my drawings, / and you would give me yours -'
 • Max Wallis (Aftershock Review) and Dominique Dunne
After trauma, what follows? An Aftershock is coming...
Son by Angi Holden
He unwinds his adult arms from my neck, / steps away with a childlike grin and wave. / The woman peers over Polarised lenses, / sips her glass of wine…
 • Max Wallis (Aftershock Review)
What Eagle Saw by Pascale Petit
VO by Max Wallis - 'Eagle looked down and with her laser vision / zoomed into the neonatal clinic.'
 • Max Wallis (Aftershock Review) and Pascale Petit
Want Feedback on Your Poems by Aftershock Editors? We'll be launching paid editorial feedback soon! Please fill in our survey to help us.
In the lead up to an eventual Aftershock Academy, I'm keen to see what readers might be interested in paying for some one-to-one feedback on your work.
 • Max Wallis (Aftershock Review)
Day 94 - After Mitochondria by Max Wallis - Write about the fuse that saves you...
With new research saying the reason we might sleep is because our mitochondria are leaky... here's a poem by Max Wallis
 • Max Wallis (Aftershock Review)
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House of Puberty by Pascale Petit
When I was thirteen I went to live with my mother / and although we were in a doll's house estate / beside a slagheap in a Welsh mining village, / our…
 • Max Wallis (Aftershock Review) and Pascale Petit
Day 93 - Break the form - Write a poem that refuses to behave...
Self Portrait with My Dead by Max Wallis 'my great-uncle Hans / [crossed out] / my great-aunt, Elisabeth / [crossed out] / what survives: / synagogues…
 • Max Wallis (Aftershock Review)
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Coda by Dr Anna Percy
The hand clinic is staffed exclusively by women [] who exude tenderness and admonishment [] a colleague quips to the woman [] who is measuring the…
 • Max Wallis (Aftershock Review) and Dr Anna Percy
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