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ISSUE NO. 117

WINTER 2009

EDITORIAL
Gina Mercer


ESSAYS
Petty Crimes: Animal Transgressions in the City – Lorraine Shannon
Looking at Animals – Randy Malamud
Come Up and See My Bower – David Rothenberg
Reading the Heart: Intertwined Journeys of a Persian Zoology – Grace Pundyk

REVIEWS
Poetry Survey – Sarah Day
Fiction – Miranda Morris
Anthologies – Anica Boulanger-Mashberg
Nonfiction – Michael Allen Fox
Nonfiction – Mary Jenkins

POETRY FEATURE
Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize Winners for 2008
Winner: Drawing in the Birth Room – Angela Malone
Highly Commended: Bedroom Ceiling Fan – Mike Ladd
Highly Commended: Good Nighting the Mirror – Kristen Lang
Highly Commended: Retrospective – Joan Kerr

POETRY
The Foundress – Ivy Alvarez
Imprisoned II – Lesley Lebkowicz
Imprisoned IV – Lesley Lebkowicz
Freak Wind, Victoria – JK Murphy
The Fires – Andrew Sant
Coracle – Annamaria Weldon
Alpine Sportsman – Liz McQuilkin
Convalescence – Helen Parsons
Surprise Sweet Peas – Jean Kent
While You Sit by a Hospital Bed – Rod Usher
Other Objects – Ashley Capes
Wax – Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhran
Plunge – Anthony Lynch
Road – Tim Edwards
Tawny Frogmouth – Sheryl Persson

FICTION
States of Grace – Robyn Friend
Bridal Veil – Tom Williams
Get Well Soon – Antonia Baldo
Waking Up – Tarek Dale
Having It All – Jane Downing
The Castle Morton Jerry – Nicholas Shakespeare


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