The Stinging Fly Issue 18/Volume 2 Spring 2011

Fiction
Dermot Healy - ‘Long Time No See’
Susan Millar DuMars - ‘Grace’
William Wall - ‘I Bought A Heart’
Mary Costello - ‘Insomniac’
Niamh Mulvey - ‘Stringing Up The Brides’
Poetry
Leanne O’Sullivan - ‘Antique Cabinets’
Richard Tillinghast - ‘Two Entries in the Annals of Wayfaring’
Pat Boran - ‘Guilt’
Pat Boran - ‘Revenge’
Pat Boran - ‘Duty’
Kerry Hardie - ‘A man died in the valley today’
Donna Sørensen - ‘Mirrored Belly of the Sea’
Neil Banks - ‘The Day Not Yet Spoiled’
Noel Conneely - ‘Going Back’
Ted Deppe - ‘Bela Rada’
Benjamin D. Cartwright - ‘Luke Chapter Eight Versus the Mundane’
Padraig Rooney - ‘The Bridge’
Ailbhe Keogan - ‘July The 14th’
Julian Gough - ‘Zippo, Delay Unit, Fender Esquire’
Cheryl Donahue - ‘Not to Mention the Dog’
Anne Ryland - ‘Haunting my Daughter’
Jane Clarke - ‘Honey’
Jane Clarke - ‘Harness Room’
Sarah Holland-Batt - ‘Orange-Bellied Parrot’
Sarah Holland-Batt - ‘Essay on the Toucan’
Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh - ‘St Nick’s’
Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh - ‘Bealtaine’
Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh - ‘Geimhriú’
Patricia Young - ‘Family Real Estate’
Leontia Flynn - ‘Sodom and Gomorrah’
Leontia Flynn - ‘Pandora’s Box’
Featured Poet
Andrew Jamison - ‘Thinking of You on an Evening Walk in January’
Andrew Jamison - ‘Lagan from the Ormeau Bridge, on a Good Evening’
Andrew Jamison - ‘Autumning’
Andrew Jamison - ‘Eight O’Clock on Sunnybank Avenue’
Andrew Jamison - ‘London’
Andrew Jamison - ‘Listening to Kings of Convenience’
Andrew Jamison - ‘Baucis and Philemon Retold’
Andrew Jamison - ‘Somewhere Else’
Essays
The Anonymous Lady - ‘Different Trains’
Re:fresh
Eoin McNamee - ‘‘Blood Meridian’ by Cormac McCarthy’
Criticism
Seamus Heaney: Human Chain, reviewed by Dave Lordan
David Means: The Spot, reviewed by Danny Denton
Amélie Nothomb: Hygiene and the Assassin, reviewed by Sandrine Brisset
Neil Jordan: Mistaken, reviewed by David Butler