Autumn 2015
Where The Mind Is Without Fear
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
Rabindranath Tagore
![]() In Moving On, Eira Needham reflects on a mother's transformation--illness eased, spirit renewed, and joy rediscovered in a new home. From sleepless worry to shared smiles, the poem captures the quiet miracle of change and the calming tide of love. |
In The Silver Birch at The Botanics, Maggie Mackay honours her parents through a memorial tree rooted in renewal. Beneath catkins and bluebells, life gathers; bark sheds like tears, and a woodpecker’'s forage turns grief into a quiet celebration of enduring love. |
![]() In The Owatonna Library, Ronald E. Shields links prairie and page--a black bear’s ripple in grass, a cold lamp’s echo, and the quiet touch between reader and Lakota woman. Past and present meet where footsteps of generations still move beneath our feet. |
Stephen Zelnick explores the life and legacy of César Vallejo, Peru’s groundbreaking modernist poet. From his haunting work in Trilce to his Paris years, this essay delves into Vallejo’s themes of suffering, identity, and poetic revolution in Latin America. |
![]() A meticulous government bookkeeper’s quiet life is upended when two armed convicts storm his usual diner. A darkly poignant tale of routine, bravery, and legacy, Miller's A Well Ordered Life explores the quiet dignity behind one man’s predictable world. |
Winifred, a restless young fairy, leaves her woodland home in search of adventure and stumbles into a suburban garden where reality bites back. Joslin's whimsical tale of courage, chaos, and the hard-earned truth that becoming a Story Fairy means living the story first. |
![]() A whimsical prelude to the Queen’s croquet party--mischief, mistaken tulip bulbs, painted roses, and royal uproar. In an enchanted glade, garden boys, cooks, and Alice herself become tangled in a riot of colour and confusion. A playful twist on Wonderland tradition by Marie Lynam Fitzpatrick. |
In a kingdom of living playing cards, flamingo mallets, and vanishing cats, Alice navigates a surreal croquet match where rules bend, tempers flare, and “Off with her head!" echoes at every turn. A wildly imaginative chapter from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. |
Andrea Castilla (Cover Designer)
Andrea Castilla is from San Juan in Argentina. After receiving her degree in Visual Arts from the University of San Juan, in 1993, she married and moved to Andalusia, in Spain, with her new husband. Here she continued her education at the University of Granada and received a degree in child psychology and education. She worked in the area for a short while before returning to her first love. Andrea opened an art shop and studio, in Motril and now from here,she paints, illustrates, teaches and creates wonderul art and craft.
The Sleep-Song of Grainne Over Dermuid--When fleeing from Fionn Mac Cumhaill By Eleanor Hull (Translated)
Cathy Giles, Issue Artist
Cathy works between her studio on the Dingle Peninsula in Castlemaine, Co. Kerry, and Dublin beside the Phoenix Park. She is self taught with over twenty years of practice. She works using a variety of mediums but mostly paints with oils. She is currently working on a series of portraits which document intimate expressions of family life. Cathy teach a variety of workshops, and she is currently undertaking a Masters in Art and Design Education. For more information please visit www.cathygiles.com or email catsgiles@gmail.com
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ISBN-13: 978-1519122643 ISBN-10:1519122640
Managing Editor
Marie Lynam Fitzpatrick
Senior Editor
Bill West
Fiction
Marie Lynam Fitzpatrick
Bill West
Yvette Managan
Poetry
Oonah Joslin