Orbis Magazine

I have two poems in the well known poetry and proze mag, Orbis 149, Autumn/Winter 2009.

They are looking now for suggestions and submissions welcome for their next issue, the big 150.
Plus 40 years of Orbis.

Featured Poets
Winners of the Virginia Warbey Prize

1st Prize: Jamie Walsh (Preface)

2^nd Prize: Shelley McAlister (Sacred Heart)

3^rd Prize: Jane McKie (Vija Celmins’ Surfaces)

Poems from 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