Issue # 123

 

Contents 

Poetry

   

The Faces, Up There

Helen Degen Cohen

7

Two Poems

Catherine Owen

15

Burning Brush

Deirdre Dwyer

18

Poem for S.C.

Francesca Fleming

30

The Poet Envies the Musician Her Instrument

Nancy Holmes

39

I don’t understand love

Fiona Lam

52

Two Poems

Clélie Rich

62

Ministry

Jay Ruzesky

64

Two Poems

Sandy Shreve

66

Recipe For Burnt Toast

Julie Mahfood

68

Three Poems

Edward Gates

79

Poems for My Father

Donato Mancini

84

snowball moon

Robert Stern

86

The Geometry of the Western World

Mark Truscott

95

Five Poems

Pam Bridgeman

96

Three Poems

Joanne Epp

108

In the Tire Tracks of Kerouac

Terri Beckwith

111

Chocolate Factory Girl

Michael Thorpe

122

Two Poems

Ken Norris

125

Three Poems

Kathleen Wilker

134

Armageddon At Endiang, Alberta

Bert Almon

146

Two Poems

Allen C. West

148

Jazz Requiem

Len Gasparini

150


Fiction

   

Rising

Laisha Rosnau

31

The Ones You Love

Cliff Burns

69

The Barrens

Alice Walsh

87

The Pretty Duckling

Andrew Wright

127

Hymns Ancient and Modern

Chris Dunning

139


Translations

   

Grandpa Enoch’s Ladder

Shmu’el Shatal
translated by Bernhard Frank

9

Childhood Drawing

 

12

Seven Poems

Andreas Karavis
translated by David Solway

22

     

Twelve Poems

Blanca Varela
translated by Beryl Young

40

     

Twelve Poems

Mikhail Yeryomin
translated by David MacFadyen

116

Reviews

   

Ezra and Dorothy Pound, Letters in Captivity, 1945-1946, edited by Omar Pound & Robert Spoo

Louis Dudek

 

49th Parallel Psalm by Wayde Compton

.

 

What the Living Won't Let Go, by Lorna Crozier

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Things That Keep and Do Not Change, by Susan Musgrave

 

 

Love And Other Things That Hurt, by D.C. Reid

 

 

The Colours of the Forest, by Tom Wayman

Allan Brown

53

Briefly A Candle by Vernon Mooers

Duane Leroy Vorhees

113

Pig Tails 'n' Breadfruit: Rituals of Slave Food, by Austin Clarke

Robert Edison Sandiford

123


Article

   

The Oracular Imagination in Elizabeth Bishop

Michael Benigni

151

Time and the Child in Ian McEwan's  The Child in Time

Michael Byrne

101


Contributors

  160

 


Artwork

Current Cover: Alan Syliboy
Brendan Sanderson (9, 31, 69, 87, 127, 139)

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