No. 189 (Autumn 1996)

Contents

Fiction
5        Michael Kenyon: Dickie Bomford's Grasping Arms
30      Annabel Lyon: Hounds
43      Sarah Withrow: Ollie
62      John Krisak: Random Patterns
64      Ann Copeland: In the Cafeteria
66      E. Ukrainetz: The Shadow of Elks
80      Christian Petersen: Mile Strip
85      Stan Dragland: Backwards Crossovers
96      Jean MacNeil: Foreign Correspondence

Poetry
20      John George Fraser: sarson's orchard
24      Maureen Harris: Two Poems
26      Brian Henderson: Three Poems
29      Walter McDonald: Uncle Edward and the Spacious Skies
35      Adrianne Kalfopoulou: Four Poems
40      Colin Morton: Seven Poems from In the Key of Blue
52      Amy Barratt: Two Poems 
54      Margo Button: A Thing of Beauty
56      Deidre Dwyer: Three Poems
60      Mike Belyea: Two Poems
68      Hannah Main-van der Camp: Emptying the Hands
69      Michael Londry: Three Poems
74      Edmond Chow: Two Poems
76      John Donlan: Two Poems
78      Marcus Peddle: untitled
88      Lee Elliott: Road Warrior
89      Lorna Drew: Three Poems
92      Sue Nevill: Two Poems
94      John Terpstra: Low Easter, Rock Chapel

Review Articles
112    Sky Gilbert: The Testament of an Unrepentant Queer
          A Magic Prison: Letters of Edward Lacey, ed. David Helwig
116    Maria Kubacki: Outdistancing the Traffic's Drone
          The Long Road Home, Eric Tretheway
119    Shao-Pin Luo: Angels or Slaves?
          In the House of Slaves, Evelyn Lau

123    Contributors

Art
Cover
Kjeld and Erica Deichman
Narrow-necked, globular vase. Copper red, reduction fired
17.5 x 11.3 cm
Collection of Erica Deichmann Gregg
Photo: Keith Minchin