Issue #155

“Tree,” color photograph printed from a hand drawn 35mm negative, 2006 by Balint Zsako.

Contents

Great Blue Heron Poetry Contest Winners

Introduction	Amanda Jernigan & Peter Sanger	7
First Prize Man Tearing Down a Chimney	Anita Lahey	9
Second Prize Top Ten Reasons to Swing on a Clear Night Maligne Canyon	Christine Wiesenthal	13 15
Third Prize Outward and Visible Signs	K.V. Skene	18

Sheldon Currie Fiction Contest Winners
“The Loneliness of the Fiction”

Poetry

Three Poems	Sean Howard	52
Vespers	Susanne Kort	58
Two Poems	Bren Simmers	67
Gravel Pit	Jessica Taylor	69
Two Poems	Rhona McAdam	70
stone sweeper	David Reibetanz	80
Two Poems	Jane Munro	83
Naming	Tim Prior	86
Two Poems	Susan Young	88
Longjohns	Donald McGrath	97
Pickling Season	Ria Voros	98
Two Poems	Sandy Pool	99
Three Poems	A. Mary Murphy	101
Skid	Meredith Adolph	102
Two Poems	Marsha Barber	103
Photograph: painter in her studio, 1907	Kate Cayley	111
Body Language	Sue MacLeod	112
Cell phones	Edward Dewar	113
Preparations	Marilynn Rudi	114
Five Women	Desmond Graham	122
Two Poems	Nikolijne Troubetzkoy	123

Book Reviews

Annals and Orals by Douglas Isaac
Compensation by Devin Krukoff
The Mole Chronicles by Andy Brown

John Fell

Review Essay

Remembering Rural Maritime Catholicism & Other Orthodoxies

Tony Tremblay

105

Fiction

The Extra	Joe Davies	59
The Weekend Out With All Our Coins	Jim Read	89
The Colours of Birds	Rebecca Higgins	115

Articles

Strolls with Anne Compton’s Processional

Jeffery Donaldson

125

Artwork (printed version)

Cover image: “Tree,” color photograph printed from a hand drawn 35mm negative, 2006 by Balint Zsako.