Orbis 144

Orbis Quarterly International Literary Journal; 144, Summer 2008

Front cover artwork, ‘Airing Out II’; back: ‘Marbles XXVI’
by Candy Witcher: www.candywitcher.com

Featured Writer
Neetha Kunaratnam: Reverie, The Closing Sequence
Knole Park I Fantasy; II Meditation

Poems
Marianne Burton: The River Flowing under the Bank of England Dreams of Power
John Temple Finnigan: Cartoon Desert Island Love Poem
Lydia Fulleylove: Prose Sculpture 1 Samarkand
Oliver Rice: Notes for Tell Elvira

Prose
Sally Douglas: Nocturne
Oz Hardwick: The Illuminated Dreamer

Article
Pat Farrington: From Paradise to Apocalypse? Some historical contrasts in Nature poetry

Translation
Ion Pop, Trei puncte (Three Dots, trans by Adam J. Sorkin and Ioana Ieronim)

At last, bring some sunshine into your world,
Travelling hopefully with David Callin, or join Peter Butler and Mr & Mrs Woofit in Paradise. Never mind the snake in the grass (OK, tree), go for A bird in the hand, like Jane Morley. And even if Noel Williams is Skating close, Lynne Bassler can tell you about Meditation After Four Days and Nights. Maybe that’s the result of A Fairytale in Words from Jonathan Attrill - sounds like it, according to June Hall in A Lipping Moon. But if you fancy being an Oneironaut, Catherine Chandler-Oliveira can reveal all.

(we should) use as little punctuation as possible but also think of it as notation - to speed up lines, slow them down’.

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