The Stinging Fly Issue 27/Volume 2 Spring 2014

by Declan Meade

Fiction
John Patrick McHugh - ‘A Family Matter’
Cathy Sweeney - ‘The Story’
Patrick Chapman - ‘Eel’
Aidan Rooney - ‘Habitation’
Wendy Ann Greenhalgh - ‘Five Angels for Mil’
June Caldwell - ‘Cadaverus’
Rachel J Fenton - ‘The Lawrence Tree’
Phelim Kavanagh - ‘Ways of Seeing’
Jonathan Pinnock - ‘The Meaning of the Rabbit’
Zoe Gilbert - ‘The Woman In The Port’
Órfhlaith Foyle - ‘The Suicide Detective’
Anouska Huggins - ‘Heather and Chopped Liver’
Alison Wells - ‘Eat!’
Kathy D’Arcy - ‘Monday’
Jonathan Edwards - ‘FA Cup Winners on Open Top Bus Tour of My Village’
Ferdia Lennon - ‘Kit Kats and Collins’
Armel Dagorn - ‘Two new happy endings and an old one’
John Kelly - ‘’44’
Shauna Gilligan - ‘The Sound of Swallows’
Noel O’Regan - ‘Grollicking’
Dorothy Melia Durkac - ‘What He Did With The Insides’
Kelly Creighton - ‘Until They’ve Hatched’
Hugh Fulham-McQuillan - ‘Music To Drive By’
Teffi - ‘And Time Was No More’
Poetry
Tom French - ‘Edward McGuire’s Portraits’
Teffi - ‘Before a Map of Russia’
Daragh Breen - ‘The Meat Factory’
James Owens - ‘Ecstasis’
Clare McCotter - ‘The Stache’
Charlotte Buckley - ‘The Faces My Mother Makes While Driving’
Floyd Skloot - ‘Breathing Room’
Floyd Skloot - ‘Today’
Ron Houchin - ‘Nutshell Infinity’
Ron Houchin - ‘Nature’s Place’
Nessa O’Mahony - ‘Late Spring’
Kate Newmann - ‘Göring and Göring’
Lani O’Hanlon - ‘Cherry Blossoms’
Tom French - ‘Messines’
Featured Poet
Dimitra Xidous - ‘The Science of Hands’
Dimitra Xidous - ‘Ovum’
Dimitra Xidous - ‘love is stuck’
Dimitra Xidous - ‘Flies’
Dimitra Xidous - ‘Bone Collector’
Re:fresh
Billy Ramsell - ‘‘New and Selected Poems’, by Patrick Galvin’
Interviews
Interview: Edith Pearlman by Nuala Ní Chonchúir
Criticism
Markus Werner, translated by Michael Hofmann: Zündel’s Exit, reviewed by Rob Doyle
Rebecca O'Connor / Kimberly Campanello / Elaine Feeney: We’ll Sing Blackbird / Consent / The Radio Was Gospel, reviewed by Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Claudia Roth Pierpont: Roth Unbound, reviewed by Sean O'Reilly

128 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2014

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.