No. 181 (Autumn 1994)

Contents

Fiction
5        Paul Bowdring: The Consolation of Pastry
33      Stephen Guppy: Fishing Veronica Lake
63      Sarah Louise: Real Life
71      Janice Soderling: Cinnamon Buns
87      Lynn Coady: Batter My Heart

Poetry
17      Andy Stubbs: War:1
24      Louise Fabiani: Lichens
26      Gigi Marks: Horses
45      Mary di Michele: Choosing Gifts for My Women Friends, . . . 
46      A bouquet of Rapini
49      Ross Leckie: The Albatross on Land
50      David Jacobs: "I am your travelling supporter . . ."
51      Conifer
52      Dominique Russel: My Uncle
54      Kathryn MacLean: in before dark
58      Sappho before sleep: 5 lives of women
74      Marta M. Gassler: Boundaries
76      The Mudhen The Sedges
78      Michael Londry: Waiting
79      All Canadians Have Wind-brazen Faces
80      Things to do Tuesday
80      Now That You Live
81      Sumana Sen-Bagchee: Tower Grove, St. Louis
82      Words, words . . .
83      Answers
84      A.E. Steinmetz: Tower
86      Liliane Welch: Impressions of Vianden, 1992
100    Mark Sanders: December 1994
101    Villanelle for Nathan
102    Tom Henighan: Distant Viewing: Landscapes and Alchemies
141    Rachel Rose: Mothers & Daughters

Review Articles
109    Tim Lilburn: Terror And Terror And Terror 
          Coming to Jakarta, Peter Dale-Scott
120    Karen Connelly: Carnival Inside and Out
          Worlda Mirth, Su Croll

123    Contributors

Art
Carol Collicut
Cover
Fissure, 1994
Mixed media collage on paper, 20" x 28"
Collection of the artist

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The Gathering, 1987
Watercolour, sepia ink, acrylic, gel on paper

32
Untitled, 1994
Acrylic, gel, gut, burlap on paper

62
Glyphic figure, 1992
Monoprint

108
Female figure, 1992
Monoprint