No. 227 (Spring 2006)

Contents: 

Editorial
5      Ross Leckie

Fiction
9      Grant Buday: The Curve of the Earth
23    Robert James Hicks: Family Day
49    Stephanie Coyne DeGhett: Weather Like Last Year
66    Alison Hack: Ride
84    Laura Boudreau: The Party
86    R. Rti: A Pessimist's Alphabet
92    JC Bellringer: Zlata and Chi Chi

Poetry
19    Judith Krause: Birthday Portrait
21    Jeanette Lynes: The Tenth Anniversary of My Father's Barn
22    Ricardo Pau-Llosa: Regina
39    Melissa Walker: Two Poems
41    Brad Buchanan: Selling Home
42    Laurence Hutchman: Three Poems  
46    Michael W. Czuma: Drer's Apprentice   
48    Adrienne Barrett: In the bedroom
56    Fiona Tinwei Lam: Two Poems 
59    Eric Millter: Five Poems
65    Andrew Titus: On taking down an elm 
74    Ingrid Ruthig: Two Poems
76    Margaret Christakos: Son
82    Arthur Bull: Two Poems
87    Jena Schmitt: Three Poems
100  Lisa Martin-DeMoor: Four Poems
                    
Reviews
106   M. Travis Lane: A Rare Originality
         According to Loon Bay, Hannah Main-Van der Kamp
109   Dina Cox: Beyond Shirts and Peonies
         Worried into Being: An Unfinished Alphabet, Joseph Sherman
112   Ian Colford: Trouble in the Spirit World
         Midnight Sun: A Novel, Lawrence Osgood
114   Warren Heiti: Transcriptions of the Apse of Space
         The Burning Eaves, David Manicom
117   Ruth Roach Pierson: Public and Private: That Interface
         Public Works, Ronna Bloom
         processional, Anne Compton
121   Ted Colson: Lo! Angels
         The Look of Angels, Geoff Butler
124    JC Bellringer: Just slightly beyond the usual scope of occupation or experience
          A Short Journey By Car, Liam Durcan
      
127   Notes on Contributors 

Cover
Beth Lenco
White Cat
30 x 30 cm,  oil on canvas
Private collection