Lindsey Hall's important, neo-classical poem: "Iocaste sighs in her last breaths of life as she’s done through all time./ Chamber on high in the pale Grecian sky looks upon the demise / of the queen of all Thebes as she ties to a beam her fate, final crime/ rope hanging slack ‘til tis called to its task of swinging Iocaste to sleep."

Anita Keymatlian is a modern beat poet, naturally influenced by her surroundings: the British Inner City, Hop-Pop, the pains and triumphs of the individual in an ever challenging and alienating cycle. She shares her optimism in a fluid rhapsodic manner that reflects the grit and soul of modern life. Modern lyric poetry with a personal touch.

An elegiac poem by Ishmael Annobil for the more sensitive members of  the expatriate African/Carribean community, who are pushed into mental illness by alienation. From the author's forthcoming book, Utopia of the Worms.

Sean Charles explores parallel universes with his first story for Ciaroscuro - a particularly well-observed and gentle piece of prose, balancing the poignancy of scientific curiosity with hope, and also quandary.

Chapter one of Ishmael Fiifi Annobil's unpublished novel, which tells the story of an African WWII hero stymied by prejudice in an African city. 'So he has chosen to be part of the “dawn horizon”, as he calls it, and its sobering dew. Because at dawn he is ahead of time: the flies are still damp and flightless, the abusive mouths and hands of humans are yet unfreed by sleep’s juices; he can roam freely, even walk in the middle of the road, if he wants, and love is between himself and nature only.'