The Stinging Fly Issue 26/Volume 2 Winter 2013-14

Fiction
Joseph Gormley - ‘Randomer’
Cathy Sweeney - ‘The Good Mother’
Annemarie Neary - ‘Constance’
Sara Baume - ‘Fifty Year Winter’
Nuala Ní Chonchúir - ‘The Boy from Petrópolis’
Susanne Stich - ‘Taiga’
Hugo Kelly - ‘There it is’
Sean O'Reilly - ‘The Cavalcade’
Deirdre Doherty - ‘Strictly Nil By Mouth’
Danielle McLaughlin - ‘A Different Country’
Poetry
Niamh Prior - ‘Multi-storey’
Floyd Skloot - ‘October 30, 1938’
Peter Bakowski - ‘A letter from Rebecca Cartello in Scarborough, England, to her sister Carla in Longreach, Queensland, 15 December 1955’
Alan Jude Moore - ‘Henry Ford’
Alan Jude Moore - ‘The Magic’
Eleanor Hooker - ‘The Present’
Geraldine Mitchell - ‘Raid’
Geraldine Mitchell - ‘A Thousand Bars’
Rachael Mead - ‘Deviation Road’
Kathryn Hamann - ‘Diagonally Opposite’
Paul Bregazzi - ‘For all those who wait for loved ones to die’
A.M. Hand - ‘Vigil’
Larry Stapleton - ‘Underneath The Sky’
Briana Corrigan - ‘The Churching Tongue’
Briana Corrigan - ‘To See You Again’
Karl Parkinson - ‘The Beautiful Agony of Blaise Cendras’
Karl Parkinson - ‘Gregory Corso’s Suit’
A.M. Cousins - ‘Redress’
Jo Slade - ‘Forgiveness’
Erin Fornoff - ‘Late Night in a Cabin on the Head’
Rita Ann Higgins - ‘Easy on the Ankle’
Eve Golden Woods - ‘Tea With Novelists’
Gerard Smyth - ‘On The Cavan Bus’
Christopher Doda - ‘Atheist’s Grace’
Christopher Doda - ‘Crisis Stabilisation Unit’
Jordi Pujol Nadal - ‘The List (A Letter to Phil Lynott)’
Jordi Pujol Nadal - ‘Three Drunks (A Letter to Greg Trooper)’
Eamon Grennan - ‘Winter City Food Market’
Eamon Grennan - ‘Concentration’
Michael Halloran - ‘Ida’s Porch, Sweden’
Amy McCauley - ‘No, Mon Amour’
Sinéad Morrissey - ‘Through the Eye of a Needle’
Matthew Sweeney - ‘Snorkel’
Featured Poet
Binh Nguyen - ‘Revisiting’
Binh Nguyen - ‘Vestments’
Binh Nguyen - ‘Luck’
Binh Nguyen - ‘A Form Of Love’
Essays
Dave Lordan - ‘New York Impossible’
Criticism
Desmond Hogan: A Farewell to Prague / The Ikon Maker, reviewed by Rob Doyle
Stig Sæterbakken: Self-Control / Through the Night, reviewed by Kevin Breathnach
Conor O'Callaghan / Karl Parkinson: The Sun King / Litany of the City, reviewed by Billy Ramsell