Volume 5, Number 1, 2008

Editorial.......1

Robert Sheppard

Poetics as Conjecture and Provocation.......3

John Dale

Chronicle of a Death Foretold.......27

Maxim D. Shrayer

Waiting for Nabokov.......35

Grace Rose Astor and Andrew Melrose

Kyoto: A Collaborative Project between a Student (GRA) and her Supervisor (AM).......41

Camilla Nelson

You Can't Write a Social Novel After September 11.......50

Tony Williams

The Matlock Elegies.......65

Helen Ivory

Birdcage.......67

Craig Jordan-Baker

An Interview with Peter Abbs (Revised).......68