The Stinging Fly Issue 18/Volume 2 Spring 2011

by Declan Meade (Editor), Eabhan Ni Shúileabháin (Editor)

Fiction
Dermot Healy - ‘Long Time No See’
Susan Millar DuMars - ‘Grace’
William Wall - ‘I Bought A Heart’
Mary Costello - ‘Insomniac’
Niamh Mulvey - ‘Stringing Up The Brides’
Poetry
Leanne O’Sullivan - ‘Antique Cabinets’
Richard Tillinghast - ‘Two Entries in the Annals of Wayfaring’
Pat Boran - ‘Guilt’
Pat Boran - ‘Revenge’
Pat Boran - ‘Duty’
Kerry Hardie - ‘A man died in the valley today’
Donna Sørensen - ‘Mirrored Belly of the Sea’
Neil Banks - ‘The Day Not Yet Spoiled’
Noel Conneely - ‘Going Back’
Ted Deppe - ‘Bela Rada’
Benjamin D. Cartwright - ‘Luke Chapter Eight Versus the Mundane’
Padraig Rooney - ‘The Bridge’
Ailbhe Keogan - ‘July The 14th’
Julian Gough - ‘Zippo, Delay Unit, Fender Esquire’
Cheryl Donahue - ‘Not to Mention the Dog’
Anne Ryland - ‘Haunting my Daughter’
Jane Clarke - ‘Honey’
Jane Clarke - ‘Harness Room’
Sarah Holland-Batt - ‘Orange-Bellied Parrot’
Sarah Holland-Batt - ‘Essay on the Toucan’
Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh - ‘St Nick’s’
Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh - ‘Bealtaine’
Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh - ‘Geimhriú’
Patricia Young - ‘Family Real Estate’
Leontia Flynn - ‘Sodom and Gomorrah’
Leontia Flynn - ‘Pandora’s Box’
Featured Poet
Andrew Jamison - ‘Thinking of You on an Evening Walk in January’
Andrew Jamison - ‘Lagan from the Ormeau Bridge, on a Good Evening’
Andrew Jamison - ‘Autumning’
Andrew Jamison - ‘Eight O’Clock on Sunnybank Avenue’
Andrew Jamison - ‘London’
Andrew Jamison - ‘Listening to Kings of Convenience’
Andrew Jamison - ‘Baucis and Philemon Retold’
Andrew Jamison - ‘Somewhere Else’
Essays
The Anonymous Lady - ‘Different Trains’
Re:fresh
Eoin McNamee - ‘‘Blood Meridian’ by Cormac McCarthy’
Criticism
Seamus Heaney: Human Chain, reviewed by Dave Lordan
David Means: The Spot, reviewed by Danny Denton
Amélie Nothomb: Hygiene and the Assassin, reviewed by Sandrine Brisset
Neil Jordan: Mistaken, reviewed by David Butler

128 pages, Paperback

First published February 28, 2011

About the author

Anyone with an interest in discovering new fiction in Ireland will already be familiar with Declan Meade. Tireless and dedicated, unassuming but committed, he is a literary champion of old-school generosity and the publisher/editor and co-founder of The Stinging Fly.