The Stinging Fly Issue 45/Volume Two Winter 2021-22

by Danny Denton (Editor )

Fiction
Lorie Broumand | ‘Talk To Bridget’
Wendy Erskine | ‘Golem’
Liz MacBride | ‘The Johnny’
Eamon McGuinness | ‘The Blackhills’
Andrew Meehan | ‘Special Effects’
Jacinta Mulders | ‘The Baby’
Michael Phoenix | ‘Luigi Lucheni’
Jim Toal | ‘The Interview’
Jodie Wray | ‘The Goose Harvest’
Hyam Yared (translated by Frank Wynne) | ‘Implosions’ – an excerpt

Featured Poet
Alicia Byrne Keane

Poetry
Clodagh Beresford Dunne | ‘One hazard of a messy home’
Gary Boyd | ‘NMS’
Lucy Sweeney Byrne | ‘Respice Finem’
Patrick Deeley | ‘Aftermath’
Susannah Dickey | ‘dependence on the mean temperature of summer’
Phoebe Eccles | ‘To Believe I am a Carpet Beetle’
Maria FitzGerald | ‘Earthenware’
John Kinsella | ‘Detrition’
Yang Lian (translated by Seán Golden) |‘My Memoir, Scene 7’
Emer Lyons | Two poems
Scott McKendry | ‘All I Want’s My Goose Back’
Ilse Pedler | ‘The Devil’s Rope’
Billy Ramsell | Two poems
Maurice Scully | ‘Air’
Maria Sledmere | ‘A short history of light’
Jessica Traynor |‘Anatomy Scan’
Comhchealg
Eoin Mc Evoy (translated by Seán Lysaght) | ‘Lochán Carraige / Lake Among The
Rocks’

Essays
Anonymous | ‘True Story’
Joshua Calladine-Jones | ‘Billy Bones His Fancy—on Tattoos’
Sarah Maria Griffin | ‘Shape/Colour/Weather’
Jessica Gaitán Johannesson | ‘Freak Aguacero’
Aaron Obedkoff & Patrick Stasny | ‘Watching the Detective’

One Night Stands [Fiction]
Marie-Helene Bertino | ‘Every Forest, Every Film’
Rebecca Ivory | ‘Arrivals’
Jon McGregor | ‘Dwell’
Stephen Sexton | ‘A Story’

Artwork
Róisín O’Sullivan

Cover Design
Deirdre Breen

240 pages, Paperback

Published November 1, 2021