Orbis 147

Orbis International Literary Journal, 147, Spring 2009

Front cover artwork, ‘‘Violence and Hope”
by Jim Coe: http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/jim-coe.html?tab=artworkgalleries

Featured Writer
Bobby Parker (What’s wrong with Malta? Batman; The Opposite of Excitement)

Poems
Ruary O Siochain (Pruning Questions);
Bibhu Padhi (In the Dark);
Marlynn Rosario (Suppopleojair);
Ginny Sullivan (For the Beautiful Child, Lost)

Prose
Ian Bishop (From Memory);
Peggie Gallagher (She won’t go away);
Alison Salisbury (By The River)

Translation
Judith Wilkinson (Toon Tellegen:Mijn vader/er gaapte een gat in hem)

Past Master
Jocelyne Thébault on Stephane Mallarmé

The magnificent seven ride again: Chakras, that is, in Owen Bullock’s version, watching out for a Floodwith Frances Sackett because after all, Death by drowning does not appeal — as Helen Overell says. But was it because Emma Lee’s Father Ghost was Framed at the Guggenheim, according to Jean Stevens? Changming Yuan could reveal all in Chinese Chimes: The Confession of a Calendar, so safer perhaps to join up with Judith and Daphne, and Katherine Crocker, or with Barry Butson, who is somewhere secret in Sweden. Meanwhile, people with a lot on their mind can see what Roger Caldwell has to say about Setting out for the Mad Islands, although Roger Darby reckons it must all come to an end with GNAB GIB.