Issue #135

Featured Artist:
Alan Bateman

Great Blue Heron Poetry Contest Winners

The Third Annual Great Blue Heron Poetry Contest	B. Allan Quigley & Jeanette Lynes	7
First Prize
Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes	Stephanie Bolster	9
Second Prize
Kai Awase: The Shell Game	Catherine Greenwood	13
Third Prize
The Blue Ball Her Front Yard	Michael Trussler	18

Poetry

Two Poems	Liam Cleary	29
Eight Ghazals	Edward Gates	33
Two Poems	Susan L. Helwig	47
First Lesson in Poetry	Heather Jessup	49
The Island (North Sea)	Geoffrey Cook	50
my father’s lives: a portrait in 3 elements	Andy Stubbs	62
Two Poems	Sue Sinclair	63
The Violinist	Clarise Samuels	65
In your closet	George Daicopoulos	79
Fence	Jean Berrett	80
Orion	Mark Callanan	81
For the Love of B.W., Queen of the South Side Hills	Monica Kidd	82
Bury me on Saint Ignace	Katia Grubisic	89
Two Poems	Amanda Lamarche	90
Library	Robert Farnsworth	98
Lazarus, does the body end?	Moira MacDougall	104
Here	Joanne Merriam	106
If on a winter’s night a traveler…	Jane Munro	107
Basel, Eunoia	Kai Fierle-Hedrick	108
The Coincidence of All Things	Oliver Rice	117
Rest	Vincent Spina	119
thin ceramic	Joshua Trotter	124
The One You Love Most	Naomi Lewis	125
Later	K.V. Skene	126

Reviews

Thinking and Singing: Poetry and the Practice of Philosophy	Edited by Tim Lilburn, Introduction by Brian Bartlett	Adam Dickinson	83
Opening the Island	by Anne Compton	Carole Langille	121

Review Article

The Whistleblower and Academe

Wilfred Cude

127

Article

Mordecai’s Version

Tim Lehnert

Fiction

Lumière or An Accounting of the Events of December 28th, 1895 at the Grand Café, Boulevard des Capucines, Paris	Liam Durcan	21
Eating the Bones	Kathleen Winter	41
Lily-Ray	Karen A. Malley	53
L’Américain	Olivier Morteau	67
Luxembourg Gardens	Michael Jordan Jones	109

Essays

Understanding the Doubling:

A Meditation on the Sanders’ Portrait of Shakespeare

Kate Foster

Contributors

137

Artwork (printed version)

Featured Artist – Alan Bateman