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Orbis 195, Spring 2021

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Front cover artwork: ‘Millennium Wheel’ by Tiffany Budd
back cover, detail from image: www.tiffanybudd.co.uk

And at long last, after being stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Barry Smith),
seems like there’ll be something to look forward to, whilst of course
Living Within The Law as Richard George reminds us. OK, still feels like
the High Wire Waiting Hilary Mellon describes, although we should not let
ourselves be Overtaken as Gail Donahue has found. But even an April wind,
buffeting us and Chris H. Sakellaridis, is welcome, as well as unusual activities
like Kathy Miles‘ Mending the Night. No, it’ll all be fine, just Beware The Beast,
thanks to Alice Harrison. Besides, start reading this issue and you’ll soon be
Hooked, you and Christopher M James both…

Featured Poet

David Mark Williams: Louis Bleriot Takes Off At Sunrise;
Sunday Morning with Mint Sauce; A Hedgehog’s Tapestry of Dreams;
Cake Library Aria

Poems from: Ruth Aylett (Costa Rican come-downs);
Mark Czanik (Fantasy Economics);
Zoe Karathanasi (Self-portrait as a Scythian Warrior Woman);

Dave Medd (Have A Poem For Your Birthday);
Sophie Sparham (Sunrise Over ALDI);
Jay Wickersham (Night-blooming Cereus)

Prose from: Tim Love (Metamorphosis); Sarah Samuels (The Gate Posts);
Alec Taylor (The Book Of Joe)

Translation: Caroline Massola. From Planetaria Translated by Laura Chalar

Past Master: Dr. Benjamin Keatinge on James Clarence Mangan

Reviews by Maria Isakova Bennett, Philip Dunkerley, David Harmer,
Jenny Hockey, D. A. Prince, Theresa Sowerby and Andrew Taylor

Orbis 195 contributors also include

Malcolm Carson; Kathryn Daszkiewicz; Peter Datyner; Lori Drummond-Mundal;
Marc Janssen; Robert Kennedy; Jenny King; Alison McCrossan;
Maeve McKenna; Pat Marum; Gabrielle O’Donovan; Charles Rammelkamp;
Jenny Robb; Michael Sharp; Sue Spiers; Grahaeme Barrasford Young