The Stinging Fly Issue 23/Volume 2 Winter 2012-13

Fiction
Fiona O'Connor - ‘Always The Stranger’
David Hayden - ‘Return’
Gina Moxley - ‘Transition’
Suzanne Power - ‘Pilgrimage’
Claire-Louise Bennett - ‘Morning, 1908’
Tania Hershman - ‘Fine As Feathers’
Colin Corrigan - ‘I Can Do This’
John O'Donnell - ‘Ostrich’
Poetry
Joe Dresner - ‘the court of the red queen’
Ted Deppe - ‘The Lost Notebook’
Haris Vlavianos - ‘Sonnets of Despair: apologia pro vita et arte mea’
Ruth Padel - ‘Mill Wheel At Bantry’
Janet Shepperson - ‘Insomniac Mothersong’
J. Roycroft - ‘Homily (or The Odd Couple)’
Elaine Feeney - ‘Mass’
Stiofán Ó Cadhla - ‘Tesco’
Seán Mac Mathúna - ‘Fuascailt Nell Crane’
Clare McCotter - ‘The Black Lark’
Lou Wilford - ‘Six Months’
Nicola Griffin - ‘Security’
Sally Rooney - ‘The Stillest Horse’
Carolyn Jess-Cooke - ‘The Waking’
Paul Perry - ‘August 30, 2012’
Fran Lock - ‘When the world ends’
Victoria Kennefick - ‘Moby-Dick’
Featured Poet
Tadhg Russell - ‘The Watchman’
Tadhg Russell - ‘The Question’
Tadhg Russell - ‘Downturn’
Tadhg Russell - ‘Now’
Tadhg Russell - ‘The Whole Shebang’
Tadhg Russell - ‘Wave’
Re:fresh
Mary Costello - ‘‘My Lord You’, by James Salter’
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