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[POEM] Charity at 11 by Morad Moazami

A nocturnal meditation on guilt and charity in Oxford’s winter hush. The poem follows a speaker wandering Little Clarendon Street, caught between pity and self-reproach, where an act of giving becomes a reckoning with solitude, privilege, and the limits of goodness.

[POEM] I Wish I Still Had Time to Ask About The Camellias by Erin Weeks

"This piece focuses on the realization that I can no longer ask my grandmother, who has dementia, about the details of her life when she was younger; it's a reflection on memories being lost within a person."

[POEM] Three Poems by Mark Folse

"Redemption isn't in two crossed pieces of lumber; it's in the living leaves."

[POEM] 3 Poems by Jayanta Bhaumik

Fib, cue, xyz, both individually and as a combination of imageries, tells about how we or our senses are expanded into the unseen dimensions of the seen.

The Little Pilgrim

Bailey's sensual evocation of a young woman’s attempt to re establish a stable identity after the devastation of unforeseen betrayal, heartbreak and a near death experience.

[POEM] Office Maid by Julia Clark

This poem juxtaposes the mundanity of contemporary office work with the fantasticality of supernatural mythology for a surreal take on modern work culture and its often obscured ties to environmental destruction and capitalism exploitation.

[POEM] Ancient Whispers: A Mythic Poem Sequence by F Kevin Murphy

These poems are drawn from a sequence entitled “Ancient Whispers” that utilize themes from classical or Slavic myth. Each poem deals with the irony and vicissitudes of human experience.

[PROSE POEM] Auxier Ridge Trail

“Auxier Ridge Trail” is a lyric meditation on emotional exhaustion, intimacy, and the erosive beauty of shared experience within a natural landscape.

Dying Generously

Philosophy essay on death and assisted dying, tackling some arguments and counterarguments for medically assisted dying.

[POEM] Nekyia and four poems

Five poems of the soul’s striving toward the divine.

[POEM] Five Poems by John Leonard

These are five poems showcasing some of Leonard's different poetic forms.

NH Portraits — A Conversation with GUSKY

GUSKY is an American multidisciplinary artist and writer who's work moves between painting, writing, and intuitive image-making. In this portrait he discusses the origins of his practice, the themes that hold him, and the pieces he brought into Ninth Heaven.

Turning the Soul: Plato on Education

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave presents education as a journey from illusion to truth. This transformation is grounded in the hierarchy of knowledge, the Form of the Good, and in moral virtues.

NH Summer Short Story Comp

$1000 dollar prize pool. Opens short story writing Competition. Mid February Deadline. $10 entry fee.

POEM: A New Hampshire River by D. Walsh Gilbert

A river's current gives a sense of rebirth, negating possible feelings of loss.

The Long Argument Against Suicide

Suicide solves nothing at all, it only shifts the problem to another state of consciousness.

POEM: The Dogwood + 7 poems by Elise Powers

8 poems, each exploring the intersections of memory, tenderness, and the sacred ordinary.

On Nature Rewritten

This piece explores humanity’s enduring tension between reverence and reason, and the impulse to shape life itself. Drawing on Aristotle, Spinoza, and the Romantics, it argues that creation is not a trespass against nature but the highest expression of our rational and divine curiosity.

Announcing Calls for Issue II: Blue Spring

Submissions open 2 November — close 11 December

Committee Resolution — Establishment of Non-Profit Association Account

Incorporation of the Ninth Heaven Literature & Arts Association

The Ninth Heaven Literature & Arts Association has been registered as an incorporated association in New South Wales under the Associations Incorporation Act 2009.