Volume One, Issue One: The Door

Letter from the Editor:
If you’re reading this, you probably have a door.
Doors can be many things, both metaphysical and not. They can be shut, but also opened. And, of course, sooner or later we shall all have to pass beyond that last and final door. But Seamus Heaney once said: “All I know is a door into the dark”. Doorways are opened to dark things, the hidden things, the wellspring of creativity deep within. And as Bilbo Baggins began his journey from the door of Bag End, we and this magazine will have to grow up and face new challenges.

So for the first issue of the Pretentious Cognoscenti, what could be more fitting then the creation of our own doorway? Be it poetry or prose, fiction or non-fiction, the Cognoscenti hope to give you here a glimpse of what lies beyond ‘The Door’.

And if we shadows have offended...

~Elizabeth Cheung

Contents

To Broken Things

1. Cage

2. All That Remains

3. Event Horizon

To Quiet Things

4. Hunt

5. ABIDING AMONGST

To the Dreamlands

7. Observations on The Rome Statue

8. By Logic

In Closing:

The Pretentious Haiku