The Stinging Fly Issue 19/Volume 2 Summer 2011

Fiction
Christine Dwyer Hickey - ‘The Cold Eye of Heaven (An Extract)’
Colin Corrigan - ‘Deep Fat’
Kathleen Murray - ‘You Just Wouldn’t Know’
Jim O'Donoghue - ‘Girl on the Steps’
Cathy Sweeney - ‘The Woman With Too Many Mouths’
Michael J. Farrell - ‘Strangers’
Poetry
Leanne O’Sullivan - ‘Safe House’
Howard Wright - ‘Son Of A Gun’
Lorna Shaughnessy - ‘Sunnyside’
Cliona O’Connell - ‘Romance’
Leeanne Quinn - ‘Accidents’
Anne Haverty - ‘A Beautiful Day At Birkenau’
Dave Lordan - ‘Hope’
Melissa Diem - ‘Peru Is Calling’
Richard W. Halperin - ‘Off Bantry’
Mary O’Donnell - ‘Sea Life in Saint Mark’s Square’
Tory Campbell - ‘Braids’
Frank Farrelly - ‘Night Duty’
Nuala Ní Chonchúir - ‘Mute’
Nuala Ní Chonchúir - ‘The Cat and the Man’
Patrick Chapman - ‘Visitor’
Patrick Chapman - ‘Sleight’
Caitríona Ní Chléirchín - ‘Cluain na hEorna’
Caitríona Ní Chléirchín - ‘Deoch an ghrá’
Caitríona Ní Chléirchín - ‘Tar liom, a ghrá’
Owen Gallagher - ‘On Behalf of the Dead’
Gerald Dawe - ‘Every Dog Has His Day’
Gerald Dawe - ‘Promises, Promises’
Fran Lock - ‘The Inscribing Hour’
Sarah Maria Griffin - ‘sleeping with an atheist’
Featured Poet
Rona Fitzgerald - ‘Forgetting’
Rona Fitzgerald - ‘Nocturne’
Rona Fitzgerald - ‘Mam’
Rona Fitzgerald - ‘Highlands’
Rona Fitzgerald - ‘Keen/Caoineadh’
Essays
Gerald Dawe - ‘Unhealthy Intersection’
Dave Lordan - ‘The Abyss Staring Shock in Literature, Literature in Shock’

Peter Sirr - ‘‘The Poetics of Space’ by Gaston Bachelard’
Criticism
eds. Terence Brown and Michael The Essential Brendan Kennelly edited by Terence Brown and Michael Longley, reviewed by Andrew McMillan
Blake There Is No Year, reviewed by Sara Baume
Glen The Last Werewolf, reviewed by Maria Parsons