Our third issue includes authors and contributors from Indonesia, New Zealand, India, Bangladesh, Canada, Romania, Iraq, Siberia, and the UK.

We welcome most as new to the magazine, but also welcome back Nineb Lamassu who has contributed another poem in Assyrian.

This February, the authors of the 2009 edition of UNESCO’s "Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger" highlighted the risks to cultural diversity as languages removed from all the mainstreams of globalisation pass away. They quoted Alitet Nemtushkin, a modern Evenki poet who wrote in a language for which there may be no more than 70,000 speakers remaining, and who captured the dangers so well. We have included that poem, "My Language."

In coming issues, we hope to continue exploring how an on-line magazine can present the colour and richness of language.