The Stinging Fly Issue 15/Volume 2 Spring 2010

by Declan Meade (Editor)

Fiction
Adam Marek - ‘The company that night keeps’
Dónal O'Sullivan - ‘Thady and Alice’
David Hayden - ‘Hay’
Aiden O’Reilly - ‘Self-Assembly’
Daniel Seery - ‘Pappin’s Tower’
Sarah Salway - ‘The Judas Kiss’
Poetry
Kit Fryatt - ‘Wardlesmake’
Kit Fryatt - ‘Tree Law’
Kate Newmann - ‘There’s An Awful Lot Of Coffee In Brazil’
Albert Conneely - ‘Belgian Blue’
Emer Fallon - ‘Vanishing Act’
Gerard Feeney - ‘Her Lucky Black Cat’
Mary Noonan - ‘Herald’
Eleanor Hooker - ‘Cell Phone’
Neil Banks - ‘Haiku’
Rita Ann Higgins - ‘Ping’
Jane Robinson - ‘Bag Lady’
Killian O'Donnell - ‘Antinoos Puts the Boot in’
Killian O'Donnell - ‘Kalypso’s Step-Me-Gaily’
Ailbhe Keogan - ‘Fusing’
Eamon Grennan - ‘Seeing Believing’
Eamon Grennan - ‘Blind Road Blues’
Joan Margarit - ‘Lost city’
Joan Margarit - ‘Bandoneon’
Sonya Gildea - ‘All Five of Us’
Christine Broe - ‘A Right Heart’
Lucy Dougan - ‘The Boy, Ian’
Daragh Breen - ‘Whale’
Sally Rooney - ‘Impossibilities’
Sally Rooney - ‘Tírghrá’
Roderick Ford - ‘Room of Red’
Helena Nolan - ‘1984 Revisited’
Dominic Connell - ‘friend of a friend’
Dave Lordan - ‘Bullies’
Rufo Quintavalle - ‘there were all these birds’
Featured Poet
Melissa Diem - ‘Some Strange Language’
Melissa Diem - ‘Come Over To My Place Electric Face’
Melissa Diem - ‘Electric Face—The Second Meeting’
Melissa Diem - ‘When You Left’
Melissa Diem - ‘The Room’
Melissa Diem - ‘Appraisal’

128 pages, Paperback

Published February 1, 2010

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.