SUNK ISLAND REVIEW

CONTENTS 1989-1997

SUNK ISLAND REVIEW, 1989 - 1997: CONTENTS

Sunk Island Review #1: 1989
Fiction
EDRIC, Robert: Anthropophagy; Memorabilia.
COX, Ailsa: Smellypants; When the Snow Melts.
WOLKERS, Jan (trans BROCKWAY, James): Wasps.
COE, Jonathan: Middle Eight (extract from book tentatively titled William, It Was Really Nothing,
later published as The Dwarves of Death).
Poetry
SWEENEY, Matthew: In and Out of the National Gallery; What You See Walking Through The
City; A Daydream Ahead; The Border.
SMITH, Ken: The Braille Transcripts.
O'BRIEN, Sean: On the Line; In the Other Bar.
VAN DEEL, Tom (trans BROCKWAY, James): Aquarium; Kouros; Worpswede.
NIMMO, Dorothy: the Pottery Lesson.
Lives (life writing)
NIMMO, Dorothy: Lowfield Farm 1984-88.
BEDFORD, William: Amusements (South Humberside 1953-57)
Criticism
MCLEISH, Kenneth: A Novel Strategy.
STANNARD, Martin: Small Press review - Five from Bloodaxe (The Irish for No by Ciaran Carson;
Madder by David Constantine; The Way We Live by Kathleen Jamie; Wormwood by Ken Smith;
The First Death of Venice by Martin Stokes).
Wood engravings by Clare Hemstock.

Sunk Island Review #2: 1989-90

Fiction
HARVEY, Kenneth J: Dad
WILSEA, Sue: T-Junction.
GUNESEKERA, Romesh: The Batik Cup; The Golden Boat.
MARTIN, David: Son.
MCCRAITH, Marian: Catching Butterflies.
WOODWARD, Stephen: Two Views of Grigor.
TAPLIN, Kim: Too Small.
SAUL, John: A Great Little Worker.
Poetry
NORTH, Mick: Ordnance Survey in the Northern Counties; Land.
STOREY, Edward: The Return.
MURPHY, Aidan: Lessons in Pouting; The Girls.
KOPLAND, Rutger (trans BROCKWAY, James): Dead Birds; from Three Winter Poems; Ontology.
Lives (life writing)
BEDFORD, William: Making Strange - Bruce Chatwin 1940-1989.
BELL, Shirley: Roots Or No Roots.
Criticism
STANNARD, Martin; Small Press Review - Stepping Westward by Ann Bond; Poems for Tribune
by Jim Burns; Necessity by Libby Houston; The Confusion of Anglers by Milner Place; Flesh and
Blood by C K Williams; The Green Man by Johan de Wit.

Sunk Island Review #3: 1990

Fiction
SMITH, Ken: Scale.
RYDE, Peter: Swimming in the Rain
NIMMO, Dorothy: Something of His Children.
BELBIN, David: Eating Out.
PALMER, Stuart A: Landscapes of a True Transexual.
MACKENZIE, David S: The Language of Water.
RODEN, David: Aleatoric Regions.
Poetry
FINCH, Peter: Storm.
CHARLTON, George: "La Mer".
COE, Jonathan: Chasing After Kandinsky.
STANNARD, Martin: The Thinking; The Death.
HULSE, Michael: Sammy Cahn.
PLACE, Milner: Weather-Wise.
Lives (life writing)
RUMENS, Carol: Roots in the Sand & Headless Heroes.
Criticism
DAVIDSON, Jonathan: Three from Bloodaxe and One from Slow Dancer - Nightshift Workers by
George Charlton; The Honeycomb by Pauline Stainer; The Peepshow Girl by Marion Lomax; The
Gracing of Days by Martin Stannard.

Sunk Island Review #4: 1991

Fiction
EDRIC, Robert: Telling the Truth (About Roscoe Arbuckle).
PATEL, Hilary: A Frizzle of Fat Men.
SPINGARN, Lawrence: The Ball.
MONK, Geraldine: Zera.
GUNNELL, Bryn: The Season of the Deer.
BIESHEUVEL, J M A (trans BROCKWAY, James): A Precarious Crossing.
JENNINGS, Philip Sidney: The Problem with CVs.
Poetry
CLEARY, Brendan: Graveside; Surrender; Down South; Well.
KAY, Jackie: Dressing Up; He Told Us He Wanted a Black Coffin.
DAVIDSON, Jonathan: The Living Room; Crossing the Desert with Camels; A Few Map
References; Crockett's Gone.
ETTY, Robert: Chance Call.
LASKEY, Michael: The Door.
ASHTON, Keith: Premier in Some Senses.
Criticism
DYMOKE, Sue: Small Press review - Strong Drink by Jim Ferguson; Raw by Janet Fisher; Spring
Tide by Pia Tafdrup; The Dreadful Swimmers by Lydia Tomkiw; Make by Peter Finch; Persian
Miniatures (by Mimi Khalvati) and A Belfast Kiss (by David Morley); Berlin Proposal by Thomas
Land; The Poetry of Perestroika (eds MORTIMER, Peter and LITHERLAND, S J; trans RUMENS,
Carol).
Photographs by Dermot Blackburn.

Sunk Island Review #5: 1992

Fiction
MURRAY, John: A Bodhisattva's Birthday.
LEWIN, Lisette (trans BROCKWAY, James); Tatiana's First Husband.
SAUL, John: Find Me a Golden Street.
HARVEY, Kenneth J: Plastic Superman.
MILLER, Ed: Host.
BEARD, Alan: Betty and Brian.
HAWES, Chris: Jon.
WOODWARD, Stephen: Saying Goodbye to Amy.
Poetry
BENSLEY, Connie: Sunday Lunchtime; The Night He Had Thirty-Two Pints.
SMITH, Ken: The Bad News; Milly's End.
PLACE, Milner: The Pedlar; West of the Missouri.
BENSON, Judi: Stickety Stick.
SISSAY, Lemn: For My Headstone.
ESPEL, Santiago: 9mm.
VIOLI, Paul: On the Differences Between Gods and Mortals.
BYRON, Catherine: The Favour; By Ampney Crucis.
HATTERSLEY, Geoff: Two Bombs Are Better Than One.
Lives (life writing)
BYRON, Catherine: Belfast Calling.
CHATTERJEE, Debjani: Japan - The Early Years.
Criticism
DYMOKE, Sue: Small Press Review - I Wear My Shadow Inside Me by Duska Vrhovac; Grey by
Margot Juby; Opening the Ice by DANCY, Ann and SCHNEIDER, Myra.
HATTERSELY, Geoff: Two First Collections - A Line on Stone by Robert Drake; The Miniature
Estate by Tim Cumming.
DAVIDSON, Sylvia: A Snap Review - Song of the Womb by Jill Cowley; Rigmarole by Mark
Robinson; Black Slingbacks by Jackie Wills.

Sunk Island Review #6: Carnage, New Writing From Europe; 1992
Fiction
GRUENTER, Undine (trans HULSE, Michael): Fontaine de Medicis.
JOENPOLVI, Martti (trans LOMAS, Herbert): The Track Inspector's Story.
KORNELIUSSEN, Ole (trans BORN, Anne): Snow in Sunshine.
MORRIEN, Adriaan (trans LEIGH-LOOHUIZEN, Ria): Seaside Silence.
THORSEN, Mette (trans BORN, Anne): The Story of The Executioner, The Victim, and The
Spectator.
Poetry
ATENCIA, Maria Victoria (trans BOURNE, Louis): A dream of Churriana; The Flood; This Game.
CARPELAN, Bo (trans BORN, Anne): Among Boxes of Buttons; It's High Time to Age; The Train
Comes Back.
CZERNIAWSKI, Adam: A Site Near Babylon.
DAIVE, Jean (trans SORRELL, Martin): He Feels the Need.
EHIN, Andres (trans CADDELL, Richard, and the author): Springtime Behind the Slaughterhouse;
Uncle Was Found.
FERRATER, Gabriel (trans TERRY, Arthur): At Ease; A Small War; Time Was.
HIERRO, Jose (trans BOURNE, Louis): Odysseus in Barcelona.
IVANOVA, Mirela (trans OSERS, Ewald): Latvian Lessons.
JACOTTET, Philippe (trans SORRELL, Martin): What I Thought.
JANES, Clara (trans BOURNE, Louis): Announcement.
LEANDOER, Krisstoffer (trans BORN, Anne): Sweden.
MAJ, Bronislaw (trans CZERNIAWSKI, Adam): My Imagination in Particular.
MANSOUR, Joyce (trans SORRELL, Martin): Your Hands.
OTERO, Blas (trans BOURNE, Louis): Moral Epistle to Myself.
PUZYNA, Konstanty (trans CZERNIAWESKI, Adam): Veronica M Tells Her Neighbour.
RODRIGUEZ, Claudio (trans BOURNE, Louis): What Never Fades.
STENBERG, Eira (trans LOMAS, Herbert): Decree Absolute.
STROBLOVA, Jana (trans OSERS, Ewald): Eurydice.
VAN DEEL, Tom (trans BROCKWAY, James): Evening; Names.
VANICEK, Zdenek (trans OSERS, Ewald): At the Monastery of St Barnabas; The Old Jewish
Quarter of Prague.
VESPER, Guntram (HULSE, Michael): My Father the Country Doctor; The Track; In a Small
Town.
Lives (life writing)
BROCKWAY, James: Across There on a Visit.
HAVEL, Vaclav (trans WILSON, Paul): Home.

Sunk Island Review #7: Survivors, 1993

Fiction
JENNINGS, Philip Sidney: Moving On.
RYDE, Peter: Survivors.
GREGORY, Stephen: The City of Eternal youth.
POINTL, Frans (trans BROCKWAY, James): The Survivors.
ROYLE, Nicholas: Shades of Monk.
Poetry
WRIGHT, Anne: Not Making It.
CALEY, Matthew: Canadian Bouywaa.
JIAXIN, Wang (trans CAYLEY, John): Scorpion; Change; Empty Valley; Stairway; Homeland.
BENSON, Judi: Why England?
HIERRO, Jose (trans BOURNE, Louis): Hallucination of America.
JUARROZ, Roberto (trans BOURNE, Louis): Vertical Poetry 1; Vertical Poetry 2.
JENKINS, Mike: No Perfection.
FISHER, Janet: Freesias.
Lives (life writing)
BENSON, Judi: Whya Not East Ham?

Sunk Island Review #8: Schopenhauer's Blues, 1994

Fiction
SPINGARN, Lawrence: The Ruins.
LENEHAN, Paul: Schopenhauer's Blues.
BARRIE, S S: Insurance.
JENNINGS, Philip Sidney: The Serrated Edge.
ZIMLER, Richard C: Nigger Fate.
WADDINGTON, James: The Underman.
Poetry
COURSER, Christina: Farmer Building a Dyke; That Polar Expedition.
LUMSDEN, David: Foreshortened in the Tract of Time.
SUTTER, Mandy: Dog.
ROBINSON, Mark: Communique.
HART, David: Hanging Loose; Nine Tables.
DALLAT, C L: Waiting for Change.
Criticism
HART, David: Interview with Thomas A Clark.

Sunk Island Review #9: Outsiders, 1994

Fiction
MODICK, Klaus (trans HULSE, Michael): Off-Season.
VAUGHAN, Dai: Party Wall.
BONSTEIN, Cecil: Boss.
PAGE, Kathy: Woodsmoke.
MCKEOWN, Michael: Butler.
CHRISTIAN, Tom: Haley's Monkey.
FINCH, Peter: I Never Really Hated Harry After All.
Poetry
RITCHIE, Elisavietta: The Transport of Klaus von Z; Them.
WADE, Stephen: Jew Boy.
CUMMING, Tim: The Judas Window.
WHARTON, Gordon: The Wrong House.
SHUTTLE, Penelope: Nothing Belongs to the Rivers; Alternative.
LANE, Joel: Skid Marx.
MATTHEWS, Geoffrey Mark: There Are Places; Vet.
BRUYNS, D M: Totenkopfverbande.
HAMBERGER, Robert: The Garden.
CRITICISM
WILSON, Colin: Below The Iceberg.

Sunk Island Review #10: Spleen, 1995

Fiction
ALMOND, David: The Black Middens.
EDRIC, Robert: The Wrack Line.
MILLER, Ed: New Neighbor.
Poetry
SMITH, Ken: Go Tell the Honey Ant; Part of the Crowd That Day; Man in the Frame (prose poem).
MCMAHON, Brendan: Squaddy.
HUGHES, Peter: From Paul Klee's Diaries.
CLEARY, Brendan: Hell; Chicken & Sex; Mother; 37 (prose poems).
O'BRIEN, Sean: The Politics Of; Awol.
MORT, Graham: Runaway.
TATLIN, Peter: Custody.
Articles re: The State of British Poetry
STANNARD, Martin: An Open Letter to Mike Blackburn.
DUHIG, Ian: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Turkey.
O'BRIEN, Sean: Who's In Charge Here?
LIGHTFOOT, David: Singing in the Bath.
CUMMING, Tim: Reading Maxwell.
FINCH, Peter: Because I Couldn't Sing.
DAVIDSON, Jonathan: Soft Back, Hard Sell.
Criticism
COE, Jonathan: Oh Fuck All This Lying! - Some Notes on the Poems of B S Johnson.

Sunk Island Review 11/12 (final double issue): Horses and Guitars, 1997
Fiction
BARRIE, S S: Horses and Guitars.
BENNETT, Martin: Spies and Dolls.
WILLIAMS, Conrad: Come for Your Dead.
BEARD, Alun*: Dad, Mum, Paula and Tom.
LIGHTFOOT, Frederick: Estuaries.
Poetry
SUMMERS, Paul: Wash-Day; If Keir Hardy Was the Man on the Moon.
BENTLEY, Barbara: On the Shelf.
KOPLAND, Rutger (trans BROCKWAY, James): She Waits; Who AreYou; No More Suffering.
BENSLEY, Connie: The Go-Between.
QUAITE, Philip: Hoover Dirt Bag.
DERSLEY, K M: A View to a Muse.
GEORGE, Victor (trans LOVELOCK, Yann): Grey Bread; After Us.
GUILLAUME, Jean (trans LOVELOCK, Yann): The Large Wagons; Always.
VIOLI, Paul: Subterranean Complaint.
YATES, Anthony: Quorate.
QUINN, Damian: Trek.
LUMSDEN, David: From the all-Night Bakery of Dreams.
DARRAGH, Simon: Nightmare in Monte Carlo.
WILLIAMS, John Hartley: She; Thalassa.
FINCH, Peter: What To Do When Violence Comes Your Way; How the Young Get On.
FERRATER, Gabriel (trans TERRY, Arthur): In Memoriam.
Criticism
BENTLEY, Barbara: An Open Letter to Martin Stannard.
CASH, Peter: Blaming A. Alvarez.
CRYSTAL, David: Home Thoughts from Abroad - Penguin Modern Poets.
BATTLE, John, MP: Jim Burns.
STANNARD, Martin: Simon Armitage.
* Printed thus, although it should of course be Alan Beard.

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