Fiction

Keiran Goddard | A Season for Every Activity ............................................... 9 Benjamin Markovits | The Sidekick .............................................................. 50 Ben Libman | The Story of X as Told by the Novelist ................................... 86 Anna Kelly | Your Time is Now ................................................................... 122

Poetry

Jessica Traynor| Three Card Spread ................................................................. 8 Sarah Fletcher| Recounting [...] / Madrid Chorus .......................................... 23 Martha Sprackland | Stick Insect ................................................................... 38 Roger Garfitt |Finding the Place ..................................................................... 49 Simon Costello | X-rays at Portlaoise General ............................................... 55 André Naffis-Sahely | Ierapetra ..................................................................... 78 Angela Leighton| Sea Level / Pebbles ............................................................ 96 Maya C. Popa| The Scores ............................................................................. 111 Holly Pester | Café Poems ............................................................................ 120 Charlie Baylis | looking at photos of Anne Sexton ....................................... 135 Peter Robinson| One Fine Day .................................................................... 155

Essays

Houman Barekat | A Conversation about Irish Literature ............................. 25 Grevel Lindop | On Not Being a Poilitical Poet ............................................. 57 Clare Pollard | Absolute Light ........................................................................ 79 Joanne Paul | Wolf ’s Hall ............................................................................. 105 Alice Dunn | A Strange Isolation ................................................................. 137

Reviews

Lizzie Hibbert | The Novel Virus .................................................................. 16 Charles Altieri | In Life and Death ................................................................ 40 Andrew Lambirth | Jeffery Camp: The Gaze that Captured the World .......... 66 Steven Matthews | Into New Realms ............................................................. 98 Ian Brinton | Reflections on Hidden Codes .................................................... 112 Tom Sutcliffe | The Way Forward ................................................................ 142

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