The Forward Prizes, awarded annually, are some of the most prestigious awards for poetry available in the UK. Each year we nominate four of the best poems published in Neon during the previous twelve months for the Best Single Poem category, the top prize for which is £1000…
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Neon Literary Magazine Issue 42
[ Download Digital Edition | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] From a brief biography of a man raised as a chicken, to a mortuary romance, to a tale that teeters on the edge of a precariously-assembled tower, issue 42 of Neon is packed with excellent poetry and fiction. There’s even a grotesquely surreal comic by…
Elicit
“Elicit” was originally published in Forklift, Ohio. I am the stretch of easementbeneath a stretcher beneathyour broken body, your weight,and I hate that the last hand you feltwas gloved in blue latex, attached to a man who detached himselffrom the boy who lay bleedingbefore him. I am the minivanand the pilot, frame and feet, I…