First published 2015 by
Tramp Press
Dublin
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A Kind of Compass: Stories on Distance Copyright © Belinda McKeon 2015
‘Terraforming’ by Elske Rahill Copyright © Elske Rahill 2015
‘The Naturals’ by Sam Lipsyte Copyright © Sam Lipsyte 2015. First published in The New Yorker, 2014
‘Six Days in Glorious Vienna’ by Yoko Ogawa. Copyright © 2006 by Yoko Ogawa. English translation copyright © 2015 by Stephen Snyder. Originally published as ‘Kaze Kaoru Vienna no Tabi Muikakan’ in UMI by Shinchosha Company Ltd., Tokyo, 2006.
‘Extremadura/Until Night Falls’ by Kevin Barry Copyright © Kevin Barry 2015
‘Big Island, Small Island’ by Francesca Marciano Copyright © Francesca Marciano 2015. First published in the author’s collection The Other Language, Pantheon, 2014
‘Animal Heart’ by Niven Govinden Copyright © Niven Govinden 2015
‘New Zealand Flax’ by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne Copyright © Éilís Ní Dhuibhne 2015
‘The Rape Essay (or Mutilated Pages)’ by Suzanne Scanlon. Quotation from ‘This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life’ by David Foster Wallace, commencement speech at Kenyon College 21 May, 2005. Copyright © Suzanne Scanlon 2015
‘Finishing Lines’ by Sara Baume Copyright © Sara Baume 2015
‘The Place for Me’ by E.C. Osondu Copyright © E.C. Osondu 2015
‘Palomino’ by Mark Doten Copyright © Mark Doten 2015
‘City Inside’ by Porochista Khakpour Copyright © Porochista Khakpour 2015
‘Made’ by David Hayden Copyright © David Hayden 2015
‘The Unintended’ by Gina Apostol Copyright © Gina Apostol 2015
‘Holy Island’ by Ross Raisin Copyright © Ross Raisin 2015. An original commission by Hexham Book Festival.
‘Distant Song’ by Kristín Ómarsdóttir, translated by Lytton Smith Copyright © Kristín Ómarsdóttir 2015
‘Transition’ by Maria Takolander Copyright © Maria Takolander 2015
All characters in this publication are fictitious, and any resemblances to real persons, living or dead, are purely coincidental.
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Tramp Press gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance of the Arts Council.
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