Issue # 135

Featured Artist:
Alan Bateman

Contents

Great Blue Heron Poetry Contest Winners

The Third Annual
Great Blue Heron Poetry Contest

B. Allan Quigley & 
Jeanette Lynes

7

First Prize

Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes

Stephanie Bolster

9

Second Prize

Kai Awase: The Shell Game

Catherine Greenwood

13

Third Prize

The Blue Ball
Her Front Yard

Michael Trussler

18

Poetry

Two Poems

Liam Cleary

29

Eight Ghazals

Edward Gates

33

Two Poems

Susan L. Helwig

47

First Lesson in Poetry

Heather Jessup

49

The Island (North Sea)

Geoffrey Cook

50

my father's lives: a portrait in 3 elements

Andy Stubbs

62

Two Poems

Sue Sinclair

63

The Violinist

Clarise Samuels

65

In your closet

George Daicopoulos

79

Fence

Jean Berrett

80

Orion

Mark Callanan

81

For the Love of B.W., 
Queen of the South Side Hills

Monica Kidd

82

Bury me on Saint Ignace

Katia Grubisic

89

Two Poems

Amanda Lamarche

90

Library

Robert Farnsworth

98

Lazarus, does the body end?

Moira MacDougall

104

Here

Joanne Merriam

106

If on a winter's night a traveler...

Jane Munro

107

Basel, Eunoia

Kai Fierle-Hedrick

108

The Coincidence of All Things

Oliver Rice

117

Rest

Vincent Spina

119

thin ceramic

Joshua Trotter

124

The One You Love Most

Naomi Lewis

125

Later

K.V. Skene

126

 

Reviews

Thinking and Singing: Poetry and the Practice of Philosophy

Edited by Tim Lilburn, Introduction by Brian Bartlett

Adam Dickinson

83

Opening the Island

by Anne Compton

Carole Langille

121

Review Article

The Whistleblower and Academe

Wilfred Cude

127

Article

Mordecai's Version

Tim Lehnert

94

Fiction

Lumière or An Accounting of the Events of December 28th, 1895 at the Grand Café, Boulevard des Capucines, Paris

Liam Durcan

21

Eating the Bones

Kathleen Winter

41

Lily-Ray

Karen A. Malley

53

L'Américain

Olivier Morteau

67

Luxembourg Gardens

Michael Jordan Jones

109

Essays

Understanding the Doubling: 

A Meditation on the Sanders' Portrait of Shakespeare

Kate Foster

99

 

 

 

Contributors

 

137

Artwork (printed version)

Featured Artist - Alan Bateman

  • Cover - Red Evening, oil on canvas;
  • p. 21 Wedding Flowers, acrylic on panel;
  • p. 41 Moving Day, acrylic on panel;
  • p. 53 Ash, acrylic on canvas,
  • p. 67 Hand Towel, acrylic on panel,
  • p. 109 Chasing Sleep, acrylic on panel.

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