No. 269 (Autumn 2016)

Contents

Fiction
5       Richard Kelly Kemick: This All Brings Me to Now
26     Sheila McClarty: Flag Girl
46     Jaki McCarrick: Night of the Frogs
64     Grant Buday: Beasts
85     Martin L. West: Miss Charlotte

Poetry
15     Aislinn Hunter: from Esk
35     Brittney Scott: Two Poems
37     D.S. Stymeist: Avocado as Evolutionary Anachronism
39     Bruce Bond: Three Poems
44     Andre Demers: Postmortem Sentimentalities
45     Joelle Barron: Galiano 1
54     Monica Kidd: Three Poems
57     Jami Macarty: Total Solar Eclipse
58     Laura K. McRae: Two Poems
60     Julie Cameron Gray: Two Poems
62     Rob Taylor: Two Poems
75     Ricardo Pau-Llosa: Two Poems
78     Doyali Islam: poem for your pocket
79     Ellen Kombiyil: Two Poems
81     Cristina Viviani: Texture
94     Mallory Tater: Four Houses
97     Gerald Hill: Dogologue #3: Effects of That Recent Moon
98     Deirdre Laidlaw: Two Poems

Out of Place
101   Ann Copeland

Reviews
104   Anita Lahey: To prog, to swee, to haynishly versify
         Bedlam Cowslip: The John Clare Poems, Jeanette Lynes
107   Clarisssa Hurley: Word Games
         One Hit Wonders, Patrick Warner
109   Emily Skov-Nielsen: “The seams between”
         Hacker Packer, Cassidy McFadzean
112   Ryan Gaio: Humour and Disquieting Discomfort
         David Foster Wallace Ruined My Suicide and Other Stories, D.D. Miller
114   Mark Dickinson: The Cellular Search for Breath and Beauty
         Measures of Astonishment: Poets on Poetry, Glen Sorestad, ed.

Contributors
117   Notes on Contributors

Cover
Carol Collicut
Marcus Aurelius Series
“to pursue the unattainable” 2011
Mixed media on paper
22 x 30 in.