The Undertow Review

29/04/2017

Submissions are open for the upcoming summer issue - - - do feed some of your creative projects into this portal for consideration: [email protected] . All submissions answered within a week. Thanks to the vanguard of bright sparks in advance ---

08/01/2017

Edition Seven: HARD SLABS AND A FEW CONIFERS now online. Editor's note: A slightly delayed edition, but like any dilatory wealthy wife who has no interest in flowers this issue is landscaped by hard slabs and a few conifers, uniform in its collective brilliance though at night when the neighbours sleep in steady rows and our eyes are made the fools of other faculties, it wakes to decorate itself.

As bright as a solstice bonfire it brings together the electrical matrimony of stapled carpets and disposable friendships, an a.m amen to wanderlust and street hauntings where ravens attempt to eat all buttons at times when the lonely and the lovelorn is more valuable than the loved-up.

Here dreams are not made of the magicians modern charms, or not lost to meta-narrative, ocean-tossed and whale-gulped, they are not hung upside down like the Hebrew alphabet, nor are they wrapped in a sarong of cloud- instead they spill in transit, shoe-laced and set on split-tongued roads that only tunnel the imperfect circles of secrets.

Through the commune of success and sorrow, we can alternate perspective and allow light to pollinate most thresholds - welcome to the swollen crop, the inky bulkheads of January rain releasing another array of admirably creative humans...

07/01/2017

Coming up this weekend marched forward by androids and druids...
Edition Seven of THE UNDERTOW REVIEW
'Hard Slabs and a Few Conifers'
Contributors -
Cover: Karen Strang Artist.
Poetry: Richard Miller, Robert Joe Stout, Irfan Merchant, Drew McNaughton, Miriam Gamble
Photography: Adrian Barry.
Art: Jessica Kirkpatrick.
Memoir: Christian Livermore.
Video (Music): Alannah Moar.

18/05/2016

Edition Six: 'Still in Miami'

Contributors -

Poetry: Scherezade Siobhan, Lauren Pope, Graeme Smith, Claire Lucille Trévien, Brandon Marlon, Glen Armstrong, John Challis.
Photography: Sarah Donley.
Art: Julia Sophia Sanner.
Memoir: Ever Dundas.
Video (Filmpoem): Max Wallis.

Cover Art: Octavia Judàs.

Coming soon on a cruise ship through your ethernet cable...

05/12/2015

Edition Five: 'Empyrean Pleasures'.

Contributors-
Poetry: Sade Andria Zabala, Iona Lee, Colin Dodds, Siegfried Baber, Grevel Lindop, Rebecca Perry.
Photography: Claire Adams Ferguson.
Artist: Federica Lucia Vinella feat. Martin Krupa:
Video (Music): Eyes of Others (John Bryden).
Memoir: Melanie Hayden-Williams.

Coming soon...

18/05/2015

Issue Four of The Undertow Review 'Dressed to Kill' now online:

18/05/2015

Have you ever found yourself wrapped in shrieking garments, and suddenly possessing a flair for enormity under the imperial effect of buildings? Well come then, strip inside, take shelter past the drum-core of mannequins and the body as a nexus point, untie your hem from the gaudy briar rose and rest your eyes under the skirt of Edition Four: Dressed to Kill. Inadequacies are hidden; secrets are given away with an outshow of innermost attitudes, how are we perceived and how do we see ourselves, shattered in the mirror but pretty in pieces, the waiter will tell you he has a talking menu, to be undressed or addressed he says, and offers the love of exactitude that most people take for truth. What lies beneath h**p and twine but a shape maintaining hulking uncertainty, smokescreen or decoration-
We can get away with murder,
as long as we are dressed for the part.

The Undertow Review - Photography and Art -

17/05/2015

Edition Four: 'Dressed to Kill'
Contributors-
Poetry: Abbi Mackenzie, Bob Beagrie, Anna Crowe, Thomas Pieskarski, Astrid Alben, Brent Terry, Helen Calcutt.
Photography: Hazel Thompson.
Artist: Tessa Berring.
Video: Paula Varjack.
Memoir: Roy McFarlane.

Coming soon...

19/04/2015

Still looking for more submissions for the 'Memoir' section of the magazines' upcoming issue- this could be personal (or lyric) essay; meditations on ideas, literary journalism, travel writing, journals or letters, cultural commentary, hybrid forms, and even, sometimes, autobiographical fiction but mostly creative non-fiction. So that's memory-or-fact-based writing that makes use of the styles and elements of fiction; poetry, memoir and essay- surely every writer that keeps a journal has this! So please send your printed scribbles for consideration to: [email protected] Thank you!

26/03/2015

The Undertow Review has survived the storm and is back with a vengeance! Edition Four: 'Dressed To Kill' coming soon, really soon.... which makes me as excitable as a flashing light-bulb getting off on its own glitch!

31/05/2014

'Dreaming in Phosphene' #3 now online.
Welcome to the issue where we diminish the mise-en-scène of life to its darkest sojourn, don’t be afraid to go where your tired eyes take you. Let’s illuminate the hearth’s furious furnace under the cauldron of the heart as it pulls its face to grimace. Whether you borrow light from love, landscape or God, muses are raising their voices. Let’s count friends instead of su***de sheep, there is no paranoia without reason, if you are distracted you are available- tears on the retina swell the world to blur. Interpretation is a spectrum condition; put on the blind fold, stab out the ultraviolet nightmares and radiating propane stars, because only by dreaming in phosphene can we see in the dark. Go on, enter, send your senses reeling…

The Undertow Review is an online journal that aims to publish a vortex of poetry, art, photography and video that currents away from the surface mainstream. All types of non-commercial, avant-garde writing and art preferred and welcome for submission to: