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XXIV Number 1 Winter 2014
Editor: Micheline Maylor
| Art |
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| Teddianne Lucius |
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| Poetry |
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Samantha Baldwin
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Tin Divorce in the GardenStar |
| John Wall Barger |
The Egg of the Universe
Waiting in My Pyjamas for a Long Distance Phone Call |
| Weyman Chan |
Noon Fragrance
But I’m no one |
| Autumn Kindelspire |
What You Left Behind |
| Shelley A. Leedah |
The Pantry of All There Is
Lee Valley |
| Gary Pierluigi |
Mona Lisa Smile |
| Autumn Richardson |
Across the Inland-Ice |
| Kevin Spenst |
The Opposite of Face Blindness
Ballad in Crazy Quilts |
| Alec Whitford |
Blood Coal Diamond |
| Jennifer Zilm |
A Snake is a Moving Line
Bicycle on Qing Dong Road |
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Sharon Drummond Chapbook Prize
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| Angela Simmons |
cellular
morphine
stillness |
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| Discoveries |
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| Lynn C. Fraser |
Map of authors in this issue |
| Andrew MacPherson |
Some topics mentioned in novels I’ve read |
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| Creative Non-Fiction |
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| Bill Bunn |
Neighbourhood Alzheimer’s |
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| Flash Fiction |
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| Samantha Nugent |
Ecology Canadiana |
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| Fiction |
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Chris Carleton
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Chinese Library |
| Lori Hahnel |
Dominion |
| Taryn Thomson |
The Box |
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| In Conversation |
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Jamal Ali
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Email Interview with Barb Howard |
| Micheline Maylor |
A Postcard Interview with Zsuzsi Gartner |
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| Reviews |
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| Lynn C. Fraser |
Review: The Dead are More Visible by Steven Heighton |
| Bruce Hunter |
Review: The Last Temptation of Bond by Kimmy Beach |
| Annie Vigna |
Review: The Long White Sickness by Cecelia Fry |
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XXIV Number 2 Spring / Summer 2014
Editor: Micheline Maylor
Contest Issue Judge Marina Endicott
| Art |
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| Mandy Len |
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| Poetry WInners |
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Marlene Grand Maitre
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Slip the Knot |
| Patricia Young |
Too Many Guns in the House |
| Patricia Young |
Puzzle |
| Wendy Donawa |
About the Snow Queen |
| Cassy Welburn |
A Kindness of Bees |
| Alec Whitford |
Nameless Creek |
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| Fiction Winners |
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Hermine Robinson
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Tipping House |
| Paddy Scott |
The Bull of Heaven |
| Theanna Bischoff |
Pear |
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| Flash Fiction Winners |
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Rhonda Parkinson
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Shifting Orbit |
| Kevin Weisbeck |
Celia’s Tea |
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| More Poetry |
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Susan Braley
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Coming Out |
| Kat Cameron |
The King of Stonehenge |
| Lynn Fraser |
Writing a Poem is Like Picking a Lock |
| S.E. Ingraham |
Superman’s Sheet |
| Laurie MacFayden |
before the next conversation |
| Richard Rathwell |
Where the Grass Moves |
| Sarah Stern |
On Hearing Sex in the Neighbouring Hotel Room
Wait, One More Dream
After the Stroke |
| Emily Ursuliak |
Two Kinds of Diamonds |
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| More Fiction |
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Frank Rizzuto
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Needles |
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| In Conversation |
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Allan Boss and Jessica Patterson
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| Reviews |
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Bruce Hunter
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Review: Incarnate by Juleta Severson-Baker |
| Owen Percy |
Review: Hummingbird by John Wall Barger |
| Joan Shillington |
Review: Massacre Street by Paul Zits |
| Ryan Stromquist |
Review: Double Pregnant: Two Lesbians Make a Family by Natalie Meisner |
| Sabrina Uswak |
Review: Are You Ready to Be Lucky by Rosemary Nixon |
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XXIV Number 3 Fall 2014
Editor: Micheline Maylor and Ryan Stromquist
| Photography |
Patrick McAneeley |
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| Drama |
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Philip Adams
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SHOUT LOVE |
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| Fiction |
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| Barbara Biles |
Life in Cars |
| Anna Brooks |
Land of Smiles |
| David Menear |
River Water |
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| Poetry |
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Jacob Lee Bachinger
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Funeral
Little Italy |
| Lauren Carter |
Barren
Louth (1851) |
| George Elliott Clarke |
Rum: A Metaphysical Disquisition
The Liberation of Bahia Has Begun!
Orphee noir |
David Eso
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Tanka of Love Moving On
Not Everyone’s a Critic |
| Jeb Gaudet |
time was |
| Laurie D Graham |
Bloor and Dalton, Toronto
The Yellowhead |
| Emily Hockaday |
Cat Summer
Morning Debris |
Basma Kavanagh
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Midden
what sounds did the ocean make |
| Claire Kelly |
Short term Desires
Stumped by a Squat Frame |
| Alice Major |
Avarice
Sloth
Envy |
| Fiona Mitchell |
Atalanta and Hippomenes |
| Melanie Peirluigi |
Dog Slaughter Truck on a Highway in Korea |
| Elina Petrova |
Yellow-Blue |
| Michael Prior |
Until I came along all the leading men were handsome |
| Mark Sampson |
lusus naturae |
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| In Conversation |
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Betty Jane Hegerat and Jamal Ali
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| Reviews |
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Anna Brooks
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Review: Savage Love by Douglas Glover |
| Andrew McPherson |
Review: The Dilettantes by Michael Hingston |
| Anne Sorbie |
Review: Open Letter: Women Against Violence Against Women by Sheri-D Wilson |
| Robin van Eck |
Review: Shy: An Anthology Edited by Noami K Lewis and Rona Altrows |
| Annie Vigna |
Review: Earthbound by Kenneth Radu |
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XXV Number 1 Winter 2015
Editor: Micheline Maylor and Ryan Stromquist
| Photography |
Rick Anderson |
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| Illustration |
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Darryl Joel Berger
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Claws Owl |
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| Fiction |
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| Kate French |
Spiders |
| Ariel Gordon |
Gilly: gaijin/Galician/ghost owl |
| Frank Rizzuto |
Twenty-Five |
| Kyle Smylie |
Pyramus and Thisbe |
| Thomas Wharton |
Filters |
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| Creative Non-Fiction |
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| Robert Boschman |
My Prince Albert |
| Scott Messenger |
Cuba, on $25 a Night |
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| Poetry |
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Jill Boettger
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Almost Winter Sonnet
Reverence |
| Lauren Carter |
Dream |
| Norma Dunning |
Concrete Eskimo
Trappers Wife |
Dorothy Field
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My Father’s Hands Are Blue |
| Leila A. Fortier |
Lexica |
| Heather French |
I Will Hold Your Normal With You |
| gillian harding-russell |
25 |
Marco Melfi
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Mountain Brow
Knife Reminds Me
Crowded sidewalks |
| Angela Patane |
Why I Don’t Want to End Up a Housewife |
| Harold Rhenisch |
The Man With the Head of a Stage Speaks
The Return to the Trees |
| K.V. Skene |
Twenty-Five Dos and Don’ts For Deflecting Faerie Magic |
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| In Conversation |
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Jamal Ali
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Email Interview with Juleta Severson-Baker |
| Joan Shillington |
Interview with Nancy Holmes |
| Ryan Stromquist |
Interview with J-Michael Fay |
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| Reviews |
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Vivian Hansen
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Review: Seldom Seen Road by Jenna Butler |
| Naomi K. Lewis |
Review: Novelists by C.P. Boyko
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| J.D Mersault |
Review: 7 Ways to Sunday by Lee Kvern |
| Zachariah Wells |
Review: Some Dance by Ricardo Sternberg |
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Volume XXV Number 2 Winter 2015
Editor: Micheline Maylor and Ryan Stromquist
| Photography |
Adam Martinakis |
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| Illustration |
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Darryl Joel Berger
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The Walking Fox |
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| Poetry |
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| Michelle Barker |
Slices of Mackintosh Apple Observe the Morning from the Kitchen Table |
| Kat Cameron |
B-Flat Minor |
| Michael Fraser |
Grand Junction |
| Keith Garebian |
Old Griefs |
| Glenn Hayes |
Morning Routine |
| dee Hobsbawn-Smith |
14 Ways of Looking at a Lake |
| Bruce Meyer |
The Thin Man |
| Amber Moore |
On Customers
Iris Ink |
| Catherine Owen |
What they have said and why it is not |
| Michael Prior |
Non-Fiction |
| Lynn Tait |
An Irrational Fear of Citrus Preserves
Random Dynamics of Time War and the Afterlife |
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| Fiction |
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| Paul-André Betito |
Spider |
| Ariel Gordon |
Gertrude Gekkered |
| Joy J. Henry |
Commerce |
| Kim McCullough |
Eggshells and Painted Ladies |
| Natalie Meisner |
You Chubby Assassin |
| Dorothy Reno |
Canada's Breakup Guide |
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| In Conversation |
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Jamal Ali
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Interview with Weyman Chan |
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| Reviews |
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Robin Galey
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Review: House Made of Rain by Pamela Porter |
| Vivian Hansen |
Review: Kissing Keeps Us Afloat by Laurie MacFayden |
| Anne Sorbie |
Review: Pathologies: A Life in Essays by Susan Olding
Review: Bitter Lake by Marika Deliyannides |
| Robin van Eck |
Review: Palliser Suite by Caroline Russell-King |
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Volume XXV Number 3 Winter 2015/2016
Guest Editor Richard Harrison
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| Photography |
Sinisa Tomic |
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| Essays |
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| Essays |
The Calgary Now Poetry Scene |
| Braden Beaulieu |
Dystopoetics: The Broken Dream of Conceptualism |
| Richard Harrison |
Poetry. Calgary. Now. |
| Micheline Maylor |
Dynamism in Diversity |
| Juleta Severson-Baker |
Poetry Now |
| Sheri-D Wilson |
From Poetry to Poverty |
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| Poetry |
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Bertrand Bickersteth
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The Athabasca |
| Vivian Hansen |
On Jousting
Jimmy in the Rain |
| Richard Harrison |
When: A Love Poem
Confessional Poem
More Sex, More Nature - for Lisa |
| Sarah Howden |
Slutty Pumpkin |
| Carley Mayson |
Carpeted Stairs
Trust Me |
| Susan Plett |
How I Remember It |
| Vincent Potter |
Jackson is Bothered by Many Things |
| Kirk Ramdath |
Grade Seven Recess
Hyarima, Before Driving the Spanish from Trinidad |
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| Non-Fiction |
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Robin van Eck
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The Blue Man |
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| Fiction |
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Mark Canavan
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Double Bluff |
| Niall Howell |
Eye Contact |
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| In Conversation |
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Jamal Ali
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Interview with Sheri-D Wilson |
| Joan Shillington |
Interview with Bruce Hunter |
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| Reviews |
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Jamal Ali
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Review: Seva by Sharanpal Ruprai |
| J.D. Mersault |
Review: Where the Nights are Twice as Long Eds David Eso and Jeanette Lynes |
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Volume XXVI Number 1 Winter 2015/2016
Editors Micheline Maylor and Ryan Stromquist
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| Photography |
Renee Robyn |
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| Poetry |
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| John Wall Barger |
Ink Burial,
Evening Walk, Tammela District, Tampere, Finland |
| Barry Butson |
Cross |
| Su Croll |
a correction to thanksgiving |
| Daniel Cowper |
Spandrel |
| Beth Everest |
i phone
cancer grows like a nest |
| W.M. Herring |
November, Late afternoon -10°C with Thin High Cloud |
| Sarah Beth Hopton |
Relentless |
| Rachael Kearley |
REM Sleep |
| Alice Major |
The Realms of Asphodel
Bell Curve |
| Shaun Robinson |
Centrifugal |
| Sonia Saikaley |
The Maiko’s Obi |
| Josh Stenberg |
Bima |
| Russell Thornton |
Sirens
Gunman
At Safeway |
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| Fiction |
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Jeremy Bibaud
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Triage |
| Benjamin C. Dugdale |
Wildrose Goes |
| C.E. Mandybura |
Saffra |
| Kaitlin Ruether |
Coal Harbour |
| Liam Volke |
How to Buy a Book |
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| In Conversation |
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Jamal Ali
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Interview with Ian Williams |
| Dan St. Yves |
Interview with Sterling Hayes |
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| Reviews |
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Vivian Hansen
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Review: House Dreams By Deanna Youngi |
| Crystal MacKenzie |
Review: On Huron’s Shore By Marilyn Gear Pilling |
| Annie Wesko |
Review: Moments of Joy By Cecelia Frey |
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Volume XXVI Number 2 Spring/Summer 2016
Editors Micheline Maylor and Ryan Stromquist
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| Photography |
Jane Eaton Hamilton |
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| Poetry |
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| Tyler Engström |
think of me
from under the bay bridge |
| Kate Flaherty |
Sel |
| Michael Fraser |
Daydreaming Tricia
The Union Dead |
| Sarah Howden |
Second Hand Smoke
Well, here I am |
| Max Layton |
Après Moi, Le Déluge |
| Ron Ostrander |
Old Bob’s Shadow |
| Susan Plett |
worship |
| Ellie Sawatzky |
Finlandia |
| Matt Sutton |
Waylon Taught Me Everything |
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| Fiction |
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| Anna Brooks |
Penny Blossom |
| Sarah Butson |
The Dong |
| Annum Shah |
Welcome to Khyber Agency |
| Chris Shaw |
Paper Heart
Stung |
Cara Violini
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The Embrace |
| Cassy Welburn |
Day of the Dead |
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| In Conversation |
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Jamal Ali
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Email Interview with Lauren Carter |
| Joan Shillington |
Interview with Max Layton |
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| Reviews |
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Dave Eso
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Impeccable Regret by Judith Fitzgerald |
| Ken Hunt |
Kern by derek Beaulieu |
| Anne Sorbie |
The Shadows We Mistake for Love by Tom Wayman |
| Annie Wesko |
Clearwater by Kim McCullough |
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| Photograph |
Nikki Celis |
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Volume XXVI Number 3 Fall/Winter 2016
Editors Micheline Maylor and Ryan Stromquist
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| Photography |
Tamara Pruessner |
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| Poetry |
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John Wall Barger
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The Butterfly Copycat
Naked Woman at a Roadside Buffet
The Wonderful Hat |
| Marzen Czarnecka |
DON’T WORRY |
| Rayanne Doucet |
Alla Mia Donna |
| Catherine Fenwick |
Women Weaving |
| Vivian Hansen |
Waiting on Tables |
| Benjamin Herwig |
evening at a burnt-out school with the tenth mountain division
Fruit on a wooden table |
| Moira MacDougall |
Boreal Lungs |
| Gabrielle McIntire |
Upstairs |
| Vincent Potter |
the Singer and the waxwing
Three Thirty-Five on a School Day |
| Tara Dawn Solheim |
December 15, 2005 – Takadanobaba, Shinjyuku Prefecture, Japan
October 12, 2005 – Minami Urawa, Saitama Prefecture, Japan |
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Juhun Bae
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Comet |
| Jeremy Bibaud |
Archmime |
| Garrett Davis |
Gorgon |
| Rachel Laverdiere |
Stains |
Kim Murray
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Puzzles |
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| In Conversation |
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| Jamal Ali |
Interview with Cassy Welburn |
| Jeremy Luke Hill |
Interview with Stephen Henighan |
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| Reviews |
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John Wall Barger
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Cemetery Compost by Murray Reiss |
| Bruce Hunter |
The Three Sisters Bar and Hotel by Katherine Govier |
| Daryl Sneath |
The Fatalists by Patrick Blennerhassett |
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Volume XXVII Number 1 Winter 2016/2017
Editors Micheline Maylor and Ryan Stromquist
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| Photography |
Patrick McAneeley |
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| Poetry |
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Nancy Holmes |
Paths not taken |
| Louisa Howerow |
As Acrostic After Finding Lowry’s “Delirium in Vera Cruz” |
| Basma Kavanagh |
Ode |
| Kyle Kinaschuk |
architecture II |
| Jeff Kochan |
Ninohtekatanan |
| Tanis MacDonald |
How to Be a Buzzkill |
| Carol L. MacKay |
Gift Horse |
| Vivian Marple |
Nomenclature |
| Richard Osler |
A Dream of Snow and Elephants |
| Angela Waldie |
Bear 64
Cascade |
| Tom Wayman |
Sunday Night |
| Alec Whitford |
A brief History of Elkford
Breaking into Abandoned Houses |
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| Prose |
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| Deidre Dore |
Three Stories |
| Carin Makuz |
A Thinly Veiled Biography of My Childhood Which I Have Fictionalized |
| Emily McBride |
Occupation |
| Robert Shaw |
Leftovers |
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| In Conversation |
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Jamal Ali
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Interview with Vivian Hansen |
| Robert Stallworthy |
Interview with Richard Harrison |
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| Reviews |
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| Annum Shah |
Welcome to the Circus by Rhonda Douglas |
| Sabrina Uswak |
Meadowlark by Wendi Stewart |
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Volume XXVII Number 2 - Spring 2017
Editors Micheline Maylor and Ryan Stromquist
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| Photography |
Mikhail Shestakov |
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| Poetry |
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| Adrienne Adams |
birds population |
| David Alexander |
Watercolour |
| Marsha Barber |
My Husband Drowns the Rats |
| Angela Dillon |
Things That Are Yours |
| Jannie Edwards |
The Beginning of Seeing 3 |
| Laurie Fuhr |
Field Recording |
| dee Hobsbawn-Smith |
Prairie Winter |
| Cornelia Hoogland |
Crow and His Children |
| matt sutton |
I still haven’t Learned how to Swim |
| Alison Wattie |
The 99 Steps |
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| Prose |
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| Jann Everard |
Scabby-Nosed Girl in a Bowler Hat |
| Sarah Frayn |
Just for Tonight |
| C.E Mandybura |
Timestamp |
| Keith Worthington |
Justice |
| Keltie Zubko |
The Sound of the Engine Rising |
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| In Conversation |
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Silvia Pikal
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Interview with Jeremy Bibaud |
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| Reviews |
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| Jamal Ali |
After You’ve Gone by Lori Hahnel |
| Silvia Pikal |
Cease by Lynette Loeppky |
| Ryan Stromquist |
silent sister: the mastectomy poems by Beth Everest |
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Volume XXVII Number 3 - Fall 2017
Editors Micheline Maylor and Ryan Stromquist
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| Cover |
Marty Gervais |
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| Poetry |
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Elizabeth Bassie-Pompu
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Corked |
| Kayleigh Cline |
Thought and Memory |
| Catherine Graham |
Each Scaly God Ensconced in Sec |
| Neil Griffin |
And So, Until |
| gillian harding-russell |
Raven at -40 |
| Bill Howell |
The Way Things are at the Moment |
| Rachel Laverdiere |
Like their Fathers and Mothers before them |
| Dave Margoshes |
Scare crow
Slipped Away |
| Carley Mayson |
Downfall
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| Carol Harvey Steski |
angelfood cake
veronica lake
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| j. Alan Voke |
When Came the Black Flower
Winter Crazy Crazy in the Mind Mind |
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| Prose |
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Carolyn Chung
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Too Small and Too Fast |
| Leah Sandals |
The Geologist |
| Alanna Marie Scott |
Himalayan Blue Poppies |
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| Non-Ficton |
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Nikki Celis
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Spam |
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| In Conversation |
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Jeremy Luke Hill
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Interview with Jesse Ruddock |
| Silvia Pikal |
Interview with Alec Whitford |
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| Reviews |
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| Jamal Ali |
Settler Education by Laurie D. Graham |
| Beth Everest |
The Book of Sensation by Sheri-D Wilson |
| Kyle Flemmer |
even this page is white by Vivek Shraya |
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Volume XXVIII Number 1 - Summer 2018
Editors Micheline Maylor and Ryan Stromquist
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| Cover |
Paul Zizka |
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| Poetry |
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| Chelsea Comeau |
Childhood |
| Myra Davies |
Not That Canadian |
| Carol Dilworth |
Oh, Canada! |
| Randi Fjeldseth |
Damage |
| Vivian Hansen |
Toward Hygge |
| Tyler Hein |
Bismarck on Abbott |
| Ilona Martonfi |
The Ugliest Girl
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| A.J. Stainsby |
From Prinsengracht
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| Mary Vlooswyk |
You Eat Like A Canadian Beaver |
| Tom Wayman |
Unleaded |
| Sebastien Wen |
Cow Skinner’s Son |
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| Prose |
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Daniel J. Greene
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Cycles |
| K. Joy Oden |
Grain Swimming |
| Diane Terrana |
Catching Twilight |
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| In Conversation |
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Jamal Ali
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Interview with Laurie D. Graham |
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Volume XXVIII Number 2 - Fall 2018
Editors Micheline Maylor and Ryan Stromquist
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| Cover |
Axel Bernal Bladh |
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| Poetry |
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| Jill Boettger |
Garage Sonnet
Summer Camp Communal Showers |
| Barry Dempster |
Boy on the Verge |
| Bruce Meyer |
Cred |
| Vincent Potter |
Woody |
| gillian harding-russell |
Fox Love |
| Kelly Shepherd |
The Hunt
The Bird Boy |
| K. V. Skene |
The Ghosts of who we were |
| Carol Harvey Steski |
weaning off antidepressant, early days |
| Keith Worthington |
Assiniboine |
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| Neil Griffin |
Confabulation |
| Betty Jane Hegerat |
Jewel |
| Chris Kuriata |
According to my Sisters |
| Travis Oltman |
Zeitgeber |
| Shelley Wood |
How they move on |
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| In Conversation |
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| Jamal Ali |
Interview with Carmelo Militano
Interview with Tyler B. Perry |
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| Reviews |
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| Sharon Berg |
How to Draw a Rhinoceros by Kate Sutherland |
| Ryan Stromquist |
Jesus on the Dashboard by Lisa Murphy-Lamb |
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Volume XXVIII Number 3 - Winter 2018
Editors Micheline Maylor and Ryan Stromquist
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| Cover |
Joel Robinson |
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| Poetry |
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| Meghan Bell |
I apologize
Rhinoceros
What Passes Down hildhood |
| Stephen Brown |
You Can Do It |
| Kelly Duval |
Celestial Bodies |
| D.A. Lockhart |
Letter to Yan from the Superior Oriental Buffet on Parkhill Road, Peterborough, ON
Prayer for the Perfect Bannock |
| Megan Nega |
Backyard Observations
Snowstorm |
| Cyndi MacMillan |
Thirteen Views of Blood |
| Maša Torbica |
Landscapes |
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| Prose |
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| Trevor Abes |
New Dirctions in Blowing a Gasket |
| Chris Bailey |
Elmira, PEI |
| Rachel Crooks |
Iyahri Tibi, Mountain Home |
| Patrick Doerksen |
Geschöpfchen |
| Monica Kidd |
Is the River |
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| Reviews |
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| Jamal Ali |
Drifting Like A Metaphor |
| Katherine Cameron |
Selah by Nora Gould |
| Vivian Hansen |
The Day of the Dead: Silver Fictions, Short Stories & an Homage by Catherine Owen |
| Carla Scarano D’Antonio |
Motherhood by Sheila Heti |
| Megan Nega |
Welcome to the Anthropocene by Alice Major |
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Volume XXIX Number 1 - Spring 2019
Editors Micheline Maylor and Ryan Stromquist
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| Cover |
Daniel Castonguay |
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| Poetry |
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| Pamela Medland |
Echo of Ash |
| Leonard Neufeldt |
Southwood |
| Lynn Tait |
Rain
The Guitar Shredder’s Ex: Non Sequitur in E Minor |
| Dave Margoshes |
Reincarnation |
| Tanis MacDonald |
Garbage Elegy |
| Tom Wayman |
Incantations
Time Seasons
Concerto |
| Sharon Berg |
Transference
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| David Martin |
Stampede Homestretch
David’s Ankles |
| Susannah Forsyth |
Social Moth |
| Kim Mannix |
Stranger Days |
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| Fraser Calderwood |
Paola |
| David Koulack |
Absolution |
| Kristyn Dunnion |
Affliction: The Taming of Bloor West West |
| Alan Bao |
The Seven Generals |
| J. J. Steinfeld |
In a Washroom of a Prestigious Art Gallery, A One-Act Play |
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| Reviews |
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| Tia Christoffersen |
What Can’t Be Undone by dee Hobsbawn-Smith |
| Micheline Maylor |
Dunk Tank by Kayla Czaga
Drolleries by Cassidy McFadzean |
| Shelley McAneeley |
High Rider by Bill Gallaher |
| Jamal Ali |
Nouveau Griot by Tanya Evanson |
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Volume XXIX Number 2 - Fall 2019
EditorsCrystal Mackenzie and Micheline Maylor
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| Cover |
Jeff Kovitz |
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| Poetry |
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| Bruce Meyer |
To the Manor Born |
| Hadeel Abdel-Nabi |
A Man Yelled at Me in an Alley
and I Liked It |
| Mark Sampson |
Dracula, Count of Transylvania,
Does an MFA in Creative Writing
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| Bruce Meyer |
On First Looking into Bark's Rumi |
| Neil Griffin |
Two Hypotheses on the
Formation of Saturn's Rings |
| Rhonda Collis |
Bioluminescence Bay |
| Evan Nielson |
A Prelapsarian Fall, c.66,000,000 BC |
| Matt Sutton |
I Don't Feel at Home Here but Nowhere Else is Going to
Change That
The Nights the Neighbours Have a Fire in Their Back Yard
There's a Place I Still Dream About and I Lived There Once |
| Evan Nielson |
An Hour South by Train |
| Syd Thieneman |
Sweep
Saskatoon Berries |
| Ashley-Rae Carter-Wells |
To Clear the Fifth Chakra |
| D.S. Stymeist |
Abrasion |
| Erin Emily Ann Vance |
Crow Theory |
| Alycia Pirmohamed |
Hawk |
| Emily Dorff |
Woman Presides |
| KV Skene |
And it's Time to Lock the Backdoor to Memory
I Still Want You in All the Ways Possible
On the Glacial Slide to Suicide
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| Fiction |
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| Wayne Yetman |
Cuidado |
| SiĚle Englert |
Selvedge |
| Travis Oltmann |
Veneration |
| Suzanne Johnston |
The Art of Falling |
| Joe Bongiorno |
The Space Between the Walls |
| Margaret Watson |
Paul and David |
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| Reviews |
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| Mike Thorn |
Only Pretty Damned by Niall Howell |
| Crystal Mackenzie |
Left by Theanna Bischoff |
| Micheline Maylor |
Drolleries by Cassidy McFadzean |
| Vivian Hansen |
Lovers Fall Back to Earth by Cecelia Frey |
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| In Conversation |
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| Jamal Ali |
Interview with Denise Chong |
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Volume XXX Number 1 - Spring 2020
EditorsCrystal Mackenzie and Micheline Maylor
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| Cover |
Flora van Wageningen |
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| Poetry |
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| George Elliott Clarke |
Emmett Till (1941-1955): A Beginner’s ABC |
| Halle Gulbrandsen |
Mitch, I’m Planted |
| Josephine LoRe |
Forget Me Not |
| Jeff Donald |
Quantum Communications with Xgirlfriend |
| Giovanna Riccio |
Lipari Flyleaf |
| Angela Waldie |
Minnewanka |
| Amy Leblanc |
Well Women |
| Joan Shillington |
Concussion |
| Skylar Kay |
Has a Half-Known Name |
| Gina Hay |
My Teeth Will Always Look Like This |
| Yuan Changming |
Sonnet in Adverbials [of Purpose?] |
| T.L. Murphy |
A Dream’s Dream |
| Taidgh Lynch |
Father Browne’s Sea Voyage, 1912 |
| Jim Nason |
Women All Over Her Body |
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| Fiction |
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| Carmella Gray-Cosgrove |
Nowadays and Lonelier |
| Joel Fishbane |
My Brother’s Girl |
| Rebecca Morris |
The Distance Between Points |
| Adam Gerber |
Roadrunner |
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| Essay |
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| Bruce Hunter |
This is the Place I Come to in My Dreams |
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| Reviews |
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| Sarah Butson |
An Honest Woman by JoAnn McCaig |
| Vincent Potter |
Arctic Smoke by Randy Nikkel Schroeder |
| Beth Everest |
Common Brown House Moths by Laura Zacharin |
| Nikki Reimer |
Pressure Cooker Love Bomb by Sharanpal Ruprai |
| Ryan Stromquist |
Tiny Lights for Travellers by Naomi K. Lewis |
| John Wall Barger |
Waterline Immersion by Conrad Scott |
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| In Conversation |
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| Jamal Ali |
Interview with Jenna Butler |
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Patrick Lane |
March 26th, 1939 – March 7th, 2019
A tribute from colleagues, students, and friends. |
| Patrick Lane |
Hummingbirds
Om
Otzi
The Sea Is Our Home |
Lorna Crozier
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Almost A Children’s Story
Parcel
Watercolour |
| Susan Musgrave |
Cookie Crumbs And Blood
Whatever Gets In The Way |
| Susan Musgrave |
What Is Living
The Beginning Of Loneliness
All That Is Ordinary
There Is A Season |
| Heidi Garnett |
A Letter For Patrick Lane
Writing Your Life |
| Rosemary Griebel |
Dear Patrick |
| Richard Harrison |
Patrick Lane Tribute, Wordfest, October 17, 2019 |
| Micheline Maylor |
Rabbits and Fuckers
Rabbit |
| Liz McNally |
Patrick May 2019
Stars From Patrick’s Too Spare, Too Fierce |
| Richard Osler |
March – Arrival and Departure
To Stay Alive |
| Barbara Pelman |
Fifty One Kinds of Lichen |
| Melanie Siebert |
Surely Dust Is Its Own Beauty |
| Seán Virgo |
This Being Alive |
| Tom Wayman |
Carrying Patrick Lane |
| Sheri-D Wilson |
Memory Lane |
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