Ache: Issue 3

by Kirstie Millar (Editor), Rosalind Reynolds-Grey (Editor), Katrina Millar (Editor)

Paperback

Published January 1, 2019

Reviews

[Juliano · Rating 5 out of 5]

“A scar is a tenuous thing to trace”, notes the brilliant Jennifer Ashby, concluding her essay on “the formation and reversal” of her stoma, ‘A Mouth, A Crater, A Wound’, one of my favourite pieces from Ache Magazine’s Issue No. 3. From the unbelievably powerful opening essay, ‘Big Sur’ by Lucia Osborne-Crowley, this magazine is brimming with brilliant meditations on sickness and pain in the female body, including Nina Mingya Powles’ ‘Waves’, Pema Monaghan’s ‘Anonymous’, Rosalind Reynolds-Grey’s ‘Reading, Writing and Living Trauma’, Polly Atkin’s ‘Swimming Against The Nature Cure’, and Helen Mort’s ‘Weaning’. Each of these pieces, and many of the others, are so full of timely insight, written with an ache that is so healing and freeing to read.