Issue #139

Featured Artist:
Louise Chisholm

Contents

Great Blue Heron Poetry Contest Winners

The Fourth Annual Great Blue Heron Poetry Contest	Stephanie Bolster, Eleonore Schönmaier & Peter Sanger	7
First Prize
from Cape Breton Relative	Anita Lahey	9
Second Prize
River Liberties	David Hickey	13
Third Prize
The Certainty Dream Schrödinger’s Cat Insomnia Letter to my Father	Kate Hall	17

Poetry

Great Blue Heron Vancouver Aquarium	Christine McPhee	22
Two Poems	Sheri Benning	33
Meniscus	Shane Neilson	35
Two Poems	Matt Santateresa	36
Two Poems	Devin Krukoff	47
Elenchos	Sarah Feldman	54
Three Poems	Desmond Graham	56
All Kinds of Love	Cyril Dabydeen	66
Three Poems	Barbara Pelman	67
Tidepool	Mike White	72
Two Poems	John Lofranco	83
Two Poems	Rick Taylor	89
unfolding	Thomas Trofimuk	92
Two Poems	Christopher Levenson	103
Later I Would Hate Him	Diane Barlee	105
Three Poems	Emilia Nielsen	106
Drowning Poems	Aurian Haller	112
Between Florenceville and Woodstock	Ross Leckie	120
Two Poems	Bill Howell	121

Reviews

Director’s Cut by David Solway	Wilfred Cude	49
The Voice is the Story: Conversations with Canadian Writers of Short Fiction Edited by Laurie Kruk Writers Talking Edited by John Metcalf & Claire Wilkshire	Dale Estey	85
The Dreamlife of Bridges by Robert Strandquist	Eric Rountree	109

Fiction

Pippy’s Bitter	Valerie Compton	23
The Painting of Artemus Alford	Reese Warner	39
On Stilts	Kevin McPherson	59
The Dean’s Wife	Kerry Langan	73
Mister Job	Larry Brown	95
The Man Who Couldn’t Swim	Gillian Campbell	115

Essay

A Dog’s Nose of Receptiveness: A Calvinoesque Reading of Don McKay	Brian Bartlett	123

Contributors		137

Cover Art (printed version)

Featured Artist – Louise Chisholm

Cover – Spirit Mask, driftwood.