The Stinging Fly Issue 48/Volume Two Summer 2023

FictionAnne Carson | ‘Happiness’Jean-Baptiste Del Amo | ‘Fraco’ (translated by Frank Wynne)Luca Demetriadi | ‘Flight Attendant’Arnold Thomas Fanning | The Unredeemed (a novella extract)Ella Gaynor | ‘Year of the Crab’Louise Hegarty | ‘If’Brendan Killeen | ‘The Big Why’Afric McGlinchey | A Feather Drifting Up (a novel extract)Peter McNamara | ‘Solo’Michel Nieva | ‘Do Gauchoids Dream of Electric Rheas?’ (translated by Rahul Bery)Michael Phoenix | ‘Separation’Beth Preece | ‘Garden’Elodie A. Roy | ‘Brussels 2018’Eimear Ryan | ‘The After Shot’John Saul | ‘You of all people have gone’Moso Sematlane | ‘Fern Between Rocks’Greg Thorpe | ‘Stars’Featured PoetMichael Dooley | Six poemsPoetryClíodhna Bhreatnach | ‘The assistant’Simon Costello | Two poemsDerek Coyle | ‘Carlow Poem #147’Jonathan C. Creasy | ‘Instructions for the repair of ordinary objects’Michelle Delea| ‘Vermin Scurry Catching-up’Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi | Two poemsAlina Hanusiak | ‘Znòrt!’Eva H.D. | ‘Hollyhocks’Umang Kalra | ‘NEW GRIEF’John Kinsella | ‘Scales’Alice Lyons | Two poemsCharlie McIlwain | ‘Hōnen is reciting’Ray Malone | ‘INTERVAL 186’Geraldine Mitchell | ‘Out of Nowhere’Padraig Regan | Two sonnetsJan Wagner | ‘the mission station’ (translated by David Keplinger)Ralf Webb | ‘Such a Night’Grace H. Zhou | Two poemsEssaysJen Brady | ‘The Boil Knows’Jessica Traynor | ‘The Curse’Paul Van Sickle | ‘Playing for Change’ArtworkPat CurranCover DesignEimear Gavin