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

FictionLorie 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 excerptFeatured PoetAlicia Byrne KeanePoetryClodagh 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 poemsScott McKendry | ‘All I Want’s My Goose Back’Ilse Pedler | ‘The Devil’s Rope’Billy Ramsell | Two poemsMaurice Scully | ‘Air’Maria Sledmere | ‘A short history of light’Jessica Traynor |‘Anatomy Scan’ComhchealgEoin Mc Evoy (translated by Seán Lysaght) | ‘Lochán Carraige / Lake Among TheRocks’EssaysAnonymous | ‘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’ArtworkRóisín O’SullivanCover DesignDeirdre Breen