| Editor's welcome | 2 |
| Jón Kalman Stefánsson: The Heart of Man (excerpt) | 8 |
| Aurélia Lassaque: The King of Golden Silk (a poem) | 36 |
| He ensnares birds and banters with the wind. | 39 |
| Her skin, hot and dark | 40 |
| She spent long secret hours in the orchard | 41 |
| A black woman dreamed | 42 |
| Beyond green mornings they glided | 43 |
| A house of stone and linen curtains | 44 |
| At the solstice hour | 45 |
| You’ve chosen the path for the land of night. | 46 |
| Jóanes Nielson: The Brahmadells – A North Atlantic Chronicle (excerpt) | 48 |
| The 185th Birthday | 51 |
| The Orange | 60 |
| Manicus and Panum | 61 |
| Mogul | 64 |
| The Little Wandering Church | 66 |
| Tóvó’s Flies | 72 |
| Grandma Pisan | 77 |
| Sorrow and Rhyme | 80 |
| Christine de Luca: five poems | 92 |
| Lament | 95 |
| Mapping our worlds | 97 |
| Imprint | 98 |
| At Sixty | 99 |
| Discontinuity | 100 |
| Marko Sosič: Ballerina Ballerina (excerpts) | 102 |
| Ian Stephen: a story and a yarn | 128 |
| Two Ravens | 131 |
| The Twist | 134 |
| Roy Jacobsen: The Invisible (excerpts) | 140 |
| Alina Bronsky: Just Call Me Superhero (excerpt) | 158 |
| Rody Gorman: from Sweeney, an Intertonguing (six poems) | 176 |
| Rí-rá | 179 |
| Glenbalkan | 181 |
| At Swim-Two-Birds | 182 |
| Flitting | 183 |
| Woodnotes | 184 |
| Hungerfurywater-rippleClanMacDonaldheather | 185 |
| Yannick Grannec: The Goddess of Small Victories | 186 |
| Mandy Haggith: seven tree poems | 202 |
| Being Pine | 205 |
| hazel | 206 |
| Hawthorn | 207 |
| elder | 208 |
| Rowan Woman | 210 |
| yew | 211 |
| blackthorn | 212 |
| Dmitry Faleev: Rhinoceros (a short story) | 214 |
| Mark Chester: a note about the photographs | 232 |
| Acknowledgments | 236 |