Orbis 149

Orbis 149, Autumn/Winter 2009
Front Cover artwork:
‘Angel Light’, sculpture by Garry White: www.garrywhitesculptures.com

Featured Poets
Winners of the Virginia Warbey Prize
1st Prize: Jamie Walsh (Preface)
2nd Prize: Shelley McAlister (Sacred Heart)
3rd Prize: Jane McKie (Vija Celmins’ Surfaces)

Poems
Carol Carpenter (The Man Who Loved Paper Wasps);
Stuart Jay Silverman (Ukiyo-é);
Robert Stein (This is about the leaves); 
Louise Warren (Long Pause Time Clock)

Prose
Vanessa Gebbie (Horizons, Dragon’s Teeth)
and John Lowry (After she has gone)

Translation
Jonathan Greenhause: Prefiero by Marcos Barcellos

Obituaries
Mike Shields on James Kirkup
and Pauline Rowe on Michael Murphy & Matt Simpson

Reviews Editor
Nessa O’Mahony
Reviews by
Arthur Arnold, Jessica Colley, Emile Fischer, Andrew Marstrand, Nessa O’Mahony, Peter Salisbury and Eoghan Walls

Whether On land with Linda Benninghoff or at sea (Oliver Rice’s Winona Incipient…) where Kathy Miles is Saying Farewell To An Ancient Mariner, there’s plenty to enjoy. Find out what’s in The Hidden Place, cunningly revealed by Jim C. Wilson - and what does William Petty mean, I want to be a simple reed? Mike Horwood is After Ezra Pound while Louis Daniel Brodsky considers a World Without Words, and Daniel Sluman chats up The Barmaid. Let’s join him to celebrate the season with (me?) and Ted Harriott in Carols: Ancient and Modern, and Katherine Duffy’s tale about Cinders in Carrowniskey; as Kate Dempsey reminds us, It’s What You Put Into It. Besides, as Adrienne J. Odasso points out, Tomorrow Never Comes Until