The Stinging Fly Issue 30/Volume 2 Spring 2015

Fiction
Lisa McInerney - ‘The Glorious Heresies (An extract)’
Nicole Flattery - ‘Hump’
Nicola Daly - ‘My Mistress’s Sex’
Gavin Corbett - ‘‘Do I Dare Disturb The Universe?’’
Aidan O’Donoghue - ‘Nocturnes’
Deborah Rose Reeves - ‘Enough For Keeping’
Oisín Fagan - ‘Scaffolding’
Poetry
Ciarán O’Rourke - ‘‘Still Life of Peaches and Figs’’
Ciarán O’Rourke - ‘‘Fresh Air’’
John Wall Barger - ‘Fireflies’
Jean O’Brien - ‘Memory Wintering’
Mary O’Donnell - ‘Forest, Snow, A Train’
Sighle Meehan - ‘Eden’
John North - ‘Prologue’
John North - ‘The Melting Road’
Róisín Kelly - ‘Hades’
Róisín Kelly - ‘The Unicorn Children’
Kathy D’Arcy - ‘From ‘Camino’, a work in progress’
Amy McCauley - ‘Bearings’
Featured Poet
Sally Rooney - ‘The Most Amazing Live Instrumental Performance You Have Ever Heard’
Sally Rooney - ‘Seven AM in April’
Sally Rooney - ‘An Account of Vital Clues Which Appear To You In A Dream’
Sally Rooney - ‘It Is Monday’
Sally Rooney - ‘Have I Been Severe?’
Sally Rooney - ‘Leaving You’
Essays
Sara Baume - ‘Eat or Be Eaten: An Incomplete Survey of Literary Dogs’
Criticism
Simon Critchley: Memory Theatre, reviewed by Tim Smyth
Eliza Robertson: Wallflowers, reviewed by Nuala Ní Chonchúir
Graham Allen / Jessica Traynor: The One That Got Away / Liffey Swim, reviewed by Joanne O’Leary
Kamila Shamshie / Lia Mills: A God in Every Stone / Fallen, reviewed by Mia Gallagher
Haruki Murakami / Hisaki Matsuura: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage / Triangle, reviewed by Kevin Breathnach