Table of Contents
Preface 9
Acknowledgements 10
The Poems
Ai Wei Wei / Breathing Through Silk Linda Rogers 13
Amber Alison Luterman 15
The Antenna Mia Anderson 16
Aubade Bryan Walpert 18
A Bad Rap for Thetis Gary Geddes 20
A Bathroom for Wallace Stevens Phil Davey 22
Bicycle Arpeggios Kim Trainor 24
A Bird and the River Jena Woodhouse 25
Blaze Rosanna Eva Licari 26
Breakup Kent Leatham 28
Carried Along On Great Wheels Alison Luterman 29
Cashmere Alison Luterman 30
Dante in Ravenna Lucy Beckett 32
Dog Robert Carter 33
Dorset Mark Kirkbride 34
Drum Preston Mark Stone 35
Earth Girls Are Easy Lisa Brockwell 36
Five Songs for Petra Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné 37
Grade Seven Social Studies Unit Patricia Young 39
The Guard Stevie Howell 40
House Paul Hetherington 41
Jesus on a Train from Mumbai Suzanne Batty 43
Kennethland Brett Dionysius 44
Legacy Karen Warinsky 46
V Medusa is Crying Ilya Tourtidis 47
Moon Jellyfish Sharon Black 48
Morely Andrew Fitzsimons 49
My Head is Full of Pakistan Susan McMastei 50
Nights in the Garden of Priapus Tracey O'Rourke 52
Note to Ex-Husband Elizabet Stevens 53
Pelicans Lisa Brockwell 54
Photographs of Jews Lisa Jacobson 55
Prayer is Scrubbing Mia Anderson 57
The Problem with Love John Wall Barger 58
Rain 48 Crona Gallagher 60
The River of Forgetting Paul McMahon 62
The Screen D. Nurkse 64
Sealed Natalie Shapero 66
She hasn't changed places Catherine Stewart 68
Sing Susan Glickman 70
The Single Woman Traveller, Latin America Ros Barber 72
Sonnet for the Tiny Neutron Arnold Seong 73
Supreme Frances P. Adler 74
Tennis Court Road Vincent Marksohn 76
To Feel Tim Bowling 78
Transit Danielle Cadena Deulen 79
Two Days in Spring Kim Trainor 81
The Uninvited Lee H. McCormack 84
Walking Without Feet Rosamund Taylor 86
Wedding Service Sally Moore 87
Yawn Sarah Rice 88
You'll Never Know Simon Miller 90
Notes on Contributors 93
Notes on Editors 103
Author Index 107