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Contents, No. 242
Fiction
5 Deborah-Anne Tunney: Studebaker
33 Sheila McClarty: The Government Ditch
57 Julie Curwin: Jarvis
79 Carey Rudisill: Lights are Closed
95 Lori McNulty: Ticker
Poetry
16 Russell Thornton: Five Poems
25 John Donlan: Two Poems
27 Marvin Bell: Three Poems
45 Emily Carr: Four Poems
49 matt robinson: The Grain Elevators
50 charles c. smith: Links
52 Michaela Essl: Two Poems
64 Jim Nason: Two Poems
66 Peggy Shumaker: Three Poems
70 Jeffery Donaldson: Five Poems
89 Carol Barbour: Farewell to Woodsyman
90 Miranda Hill: Two Poems
93 Mike Madill: Jesus and the Soap-Dish
Reviews
103 H. Nigel Thomas: Delight in the poetry
I & I, George Elliott Clarke
106 Mark Dickinson: "that sense of momentary simultaneity"
Personal History, Roo Borson
108 Naomi Lewis: The Exquisite Pain of Exile
Evidence, Ian Colford
110 John Herbert Cunningham: uniquely boundary-crossing art
bush camp, Marvin Francis
113 Susan Haley: Monkey Time in the Third German Zoo
Eva's Threepenny Theatre, Andrew Steinmetz
Contributors
116 Notes on Contributors
Cover
Raymond Martin
TOURNESOLS CERF-VOLANTS
oil on canvas 40 x 30 in
Gallery 78
Fredericton, New Brunswick Canada
Contents, No. 241
Fiction
16 Nicholas Ruddock: Butterpot
34 Wasela Hiyate: Travel Is so Broadening
61 Michael Kissinger: Ears
81 Jennifer Hedges: The Sleep Mask
100 Renée Hartleib: Growing Breasts
Poetry
5 Norman Dubie: Five Poems
10 Elizabyth A. Hiscox: Three Poems
13 Shane Neilson: Touching Down at the Fredericton Airport
23 Vanessa Moeller: Abandoned Postcards Found in Hotel Room 464
28 Blaise Moritz: Two Poems
30 Edwin Turner: Shadows
32 Sandra Ridley: Two Poems
47 Cynthia Hogue: Three Poems
53 Douglas S. Jones: Two Poems
55 Kirstie McCallum: The Biblical Story of Mustard
56 Kathleen Brown: Two Poems
59 Emily Davidson: Two Poems
70 Stephanie Gehring: Three Poems
77 Ilona Martonfi: Two Poems
80 Hillel Schwartz: Certitude
89 Darryl Whetter: Mary Anning (1799-1847), Some Members
91 Paul Tyler: Two Poems
93 John Wall Barger: Two Poems
97 Brian Burke: the sno-eld in Caesar's fields
99 Richard Kenefic: Bovine Nietzsche
Reviews
106 Jesse Patrick Ferguson: Lived Experience in Clear Language
The Dream World, Alison Pick
107 Kristel Thornell: Eyes Wide Open
The Last Will and Testament of Jon Martinez de Larrume, Antony Christie
110 Ted Colson: That's History for You: Gossip, Fact, Opinion
The Man Who Said No: Reading Jacob Bailey, Loyalist, Kent Thompson
115 Lynn Davies: A Sort of Jam Session
Woodshedding, S.E. Venart
117 Ruth Roach Pierson: For
Against, Sharon McCartney
120 Greg Shupak: No Stone Unconsidered
All Things Considered, Patricia Stone
122 Benjamin Griffin: A Lens for a Violent, Passionate and Incendiary Period in History
Imperfect Penance, Mitchell Parry
124 Warren Heiti: Sickness, Catharsis, and the City inside the Skin
Orphic Politics, Tim Lilburn
129 Shane Neilson: No Proof of Faith
Perfecting, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
Contributors
132 Notes on Contributors
Cover
Tom Forrestall "Field Boss"
copyright to Tom Forrestall 2009
Fog Forest Gallery
Sackville, New Brunswick Canada
Contents, No. 240
Editorial
5 Mark Anthony Jarman: Dark Was the Night, Bright Was the Diamond
Fiction
6 Alice Petersen: Among the Trees
13 Rebecca Rosenblum: ContEd
27 Rebecca Rosenblum: Tech Support
41 Richard Cumyn: The Goddess Throws Down
49 Hazel Lyder: Grasping History
56 Jeff Park: A Boat in Still Water
71 Jeff Park: Back to Disney
81 Paul Martone: Homecoming
92 Lori Hahnel: Excerpt from Love Minus Zero
96 Elisabeth de Mariaffi: Ajaccio Belonged to the Genoese
103 J.M. Villaverde: The Spanish Hour
118 Stephanie Austin: "The Sink in Here Is Always Wet"
127 Hugh Graham: Klenau's Advance
137 Andrew MacDonald: "Customer X"
144 Jennifer Stone: Knowing
151 Steven Heighton: Shared Room On Union
Reviews
164 Katia Grubisic: Mating Rituals of Homo Sapiens Newfoundlandsis
The Darren Effect, Libby Creelman
166 Pat Leech: Life's Greatest Questions: The Enigmas of Human Emotion
The Withdrawal Method, Pasha Malla
168 Shane Neilson: Not a Traditional Coming-of-Age Story
Skin Room, Sara Tilley
171 Ian Colford: Movie Magic
Silver Salts, Mark Blagrave
173 Richard Cumyn: The Compleat Male
Quintet, Douglas Arthur Brown
The Order of Good Cheer, Bill Gaston
176 Edward O'Connor: His Debate with Pain
The Push & The Pull, Darryl Whetter
Notes on Contributors
179
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Suzanne Hill:
Markers, 1 of 3
Contents, No. 239
Fiction
9 Laura Trunkey: Healing Touch
23 Kirsten Donaghey: What You've Been Missing
29 Ryan Frawley: Linares del Arroyo
49 Alex Leslie: Ghost Stories
72 Michael Murphy: In the Room the Women
Poetry
7 Russell Thornton: The Rain Bush
20 Colleen Sanders: Emergence
22 Patricia Young: Sign of the Times
35 Robyn Sarah: Three Poems
39 Anne Compton: Three Poems
42 Lisa Martin-DeMoor: Three Poems
46 Shane Neilson: Three Poems
59 Tom Wayman: The Town Where Winter Begins
60 Susan Glickman: Two Poems
62 Eric Roy: Kalimoxto
63 Michael Blouin: let rest
64 David Zieroth: Two Poems
68 Marilyn Iwama: Sunday Morning at the Coffin Maker's House
69 Louisa Howerow: The Inadequacy of Guidebooks
70 Katerina Fretwell: Healing Wings
81 Zoë Landale: Breath Attaches Us: Sestina with Right Hand Drive
83 Gerard Beirne: Two Poems
88 Eric Paul Shaffer: On the Occasion of Andy's Cancer Diagnosis
90 Kathy Mac: Two Poems
92 Leanne Averbach: Projection
93 Stan Rogal: They Called Me the Hyacinth Girl
Reviews
95 M. Travis Lane: Locating the Author
feria: a poempark, Oana Avasilichioae
Cypress, Barbara Klar
Breaker, Sue Sinclair
103 Michael Thorpe: Voices of Memory
Aide Mémoire, Ruth Roach Pierson
Water Strider, Karen Hofmann
107 John H Cunningham: Masque
Little theatres, Erín Moure
109 Karen Schindler: And This Revealed
Erratic, Donna Kane
112 Steve Noyes: Bound to a Wine-Dark Doubt
The Bindery, Shane Rhodes
115 Nancy Richler: Willng Amnesia
Cricket in a Fist, Naomi K. Lewis
116 Susan Haley: The Arctic We Don't Know
Iliarjuk, Dracc Dreque
Notes on Contributors
117
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Ned Bear:
OKISKOWEHIKEW 2003:
23.5 x 12 x 8 in
Contents, No. 238
Fiction
16 Colette Maitland: Rod and Real
37 L. Annette Binder: Castle Rock
49 Dean Serravalle: Varicose Veins
67 Thodora Armstrong: Fishtail
Poetry
5 David Seymour: Two Poems
9 Chris Hutchinson: Four Poems
14 Robert Gibbs: Baroque Wheezings
15 Monica Kidd: Rheumutic Fever
28 Andrew Slattery: Two Poems
31 Erika Westman: Canyon Winds at Eglinton and Yonge, Late December
32 Claire Battershill: Two Poems
35 Zoe Whittall: Precordial Thump
44 Margaret Christakos: Two Poems
46 Shane Rhodes: Two Poems
57 Michael Johnson: Six Poems
64 James Wood: Catherine Wheel
65 Catherine Owen: Humility
66 Laurelyn Whitt: Memorial
82 James Pollock: Four Poems
86 Bren Simmers: Two Poems
88 Maureen Hynes: Three Poems
91 Maurice Mierau: In Danger or Threatened
92 Joe Wilkins: Seven Devils
Reviews
95 Jennifer Andrews: The Legacy of the Rolling Head
The Crooked Good, Louise Halfe
98 Edward O'Connor: The Poet and His Headstrong Daughter
Conceit, Mary Novik
100 Richard Cumyn: The Forest of Our Iniquity
Helpless, Barbara Gowdy
102 Eric Miller: Unbaked Bread at Forsaken Hours
The Sweet Fuels, Erin Knight
105 Shane Neilson: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
A Thaw Foretold, Mike Barnes
106 Michael DeBeyer: Forging Academic Inroads
Meetings with Maritime Poets, Ann Compton
109 Ruth Roach Pierson: Quirky Humour and Intellectual Compression
Courage Underground, Julie Roorda
112 Jamie Dopp: The Face Before the Mask
Night Work, Randall Maggs
115 Catherine Greenwood: Grounded, but not down
The View from a Kite, Maureen Hull
117 John Herbert Cunningham: A Poetry of the Intellect
Aiken Drum, Peter Sanger
Notes on Contributors
120
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Ned Bear
IHKOPIWIPISIM AHCAHK 1996
stained birch with bear fur, horse hair and leather lacing
16 x 9 x 7 in.
Contents, No. 237
Fiction
5 Karen Malley: After the Shower
26 Mary Akers: Pygmalion (Recast)
47 Nicole Dixon: Diving for Pearls
67 Alice Petersen: Scottish Annie
82 Lucy Policelli: Passages
93 Steve Noyes: from The Holograph
Poetry
12 Shane Neilson: Three Poems
16 Myles Zacharias: To My Son From a Trench
17 Kerrin McCadden: After the Apocalypse
18 David Barrick: Where Are the Werewolves
20 Barry Dempster: Three Poems
36 Richard Lemm: Two Poems
39 Matthew Tierney: Plosive & Fricative
43 Michael Lista: Positions and Psalm
46 Michael Penny: Defined Terms for a Contemplated Contract
55 Alberto Ros: Three Poems
59 Gerald Hill: International Harvester 140
60 Ricardo Pau-Llosa: Two Poems
62 Nicholas Bradley: The Parts of a Cat
63 Edward Gates: XXXIV
64 Micheline Maylor: Two Poems
66 Natalie Helberg: ritually of earth
73 Nancy Anne Miller: Ebury Court Hotel
74 Laura Madeline Wiseman: Chihuahua
75 Miranda Hill: Two Poems
77 Phoebe Wray: Biography
78 Anis Shivani: At the Simla Hill Station, June 1910
79 John Mann: Two Poems
81 Daniel Langton: Italy
88 Sam Cheuk: Love Letter #23 A lover's discourse
Reviews
104 Ian Colford: Round and Round We Go
Kindly Light, Robert Gibb
106 M. Travis Lane: A Will to Language
Shall: ghazals, Catherine Owen
109 Shane Neilson: Goody Is in the Details
Goody Bledsoe, Heather Doherty
111 Steve Noyes: The Lower Eastside Book of the Dead
Skids, Cathleen With
114 Michael DeBeyer: Hooked
Hitch, Matthew Holmes
Notes on Contributors
117
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Ned Bear
MAHMIHK 1994
butternut with bear fur, horse hair and leather lacing
18.5 x 11 x 8.5 in
Contents, No. 236
5 Tammy Armstrong: Editorial
7 Ross Leckie: Charles Wright in Canada
Poetry
I.
9 Charles Wright: Twenty-Two Poems
38 Jan Zwicky: Music and Silence: Seven Variations
45 Tim Bowling: Four Poems
53 Troy Jollimore: Three Poems
II.
59 Marvin Bell: Five Poems
64 Karen Solie: Two Poems
67 Mark Callanan: Two Poems
69 Sheryda Warrener: Balcony
70 M. Travis Lane: Two Poems
73 Suzanne Nussey: Advice to City Dwellers
75 Patrick Warner: Three Poems
III.
79 Maleea Acker: Two Poems
82 David Reibetanz: Three Poems
87 Andrew Sant: Two Poems
91 Barbara Pelman: Counterpoint and Pause
93 Brecken Rose Hancock: The Near Site
95 Mary Dalton: Waste Ground
100 Alison Pick: Two Poems
IV.
103 Geoffrey Lindsay: Two Poems
106 Eric Miller: Two Poems
108 John Barton: Two Poems
113 Triny Finlay: Four Poems
117 George McWhirter: Three Poems
124 Jane Munro: Two Poems
126 Ern Moure: Three Poems from Elisa Sampedrn's O Resplandor
130 Lynn Davies: Three Poems
V.
135 Anne Simpson: Clear
138 Sharon McCartney: Two Poems
140 Warren Heiti: Four Poems
144 Jennica Harper: Two Poems
147 Phil Hall: Three Poems
150 Ken Babstock: Three Poems
155 Jeramy Dodds: Four Poems
Essay
159 Bruce Meyer: The Fine Art of Adapting: The Poetry of M. Travis Lane
Reviews
163 Katia Grubisic: All Aboard the Omnibus
I, Nadja, and Other Poems, Susan Elmslie, Nerve Squall, Sylvia Legris, Hot Poppies, Leon Rooke
167 M. Travis Lane: The Message of Keats' Urn
A Curious Beatitude, Sarah Klassen, Stones Call Out, Pamela Porter
172 Ruth Roach Pierson: Lessons in Darkness
songs for the dancing chicken, emily schultz
174 Karen Schindler: Shane Neilson's Allotment of Canvas
Exterminate My Heart, Shane Neilson
177 George Amabile: The Poem as Timepiece
The Watchmaker's Table, Brian Bartlett
Notes on Contributors
181
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David McKay
The Big Barn in June, Watercolour, 21 x 29 in.
Contents, No. 235
Fiction
7 Maureen Bilerman: Geographic Tongue
16 Richard Simas: Ivo's Border
35 Lesley Buxton: Blind Spot
51 Dave Margoshes: Lettres d'amour
71 Lori Hahnel: Art Is Long
87 John C. Goodman: Stones
90 Dave Miller: Road Signs
Poetry
12 Jamella Hagen: Leaving the North
14 ShaneNeilson: Winning is the only thing
15 Susan Steudel: Almanac
30 Tim Bowling: Four Poems
46 Katia Grubisic: Five Poems
61 Jim Johnstone: Saturn's Witness
62 Gabe Foreman: Two Poems
64 Robert Colman: The yoga instructor
66 Regan Taylor: Cleaning the Bank
67 Cornelia Hoogland: Two Poems
69 Tiphanie Yanique: Two Poems
77 Shari Andrews: Two Poems
79 Samantha Bernstein: Happiness
81 Andy Weaver: A Scotch Prayer
82 Johanna Skibsrud: Some Intimacy Beside the Five-Storey Pagoda, at Sundown
83 Amy-Leah White: Two Poems
85 Kate Kennedy: Two Poems
Reviews
99 M. Travis Lane: Bird Milk (aka): Poets of Promise
The Milk of Birds, Gary Michael Dault
Flesh, A Naked Dress, Susan Andrews Grace
102 Lynn Davies: Our Home, Called Earth
Inter Alia, David Seymour
105 Naomi K. Lewis: Time's Long, Scarring Reach
Long After Fathers, Roberta Rees
107 Steve Noyes: No Hint of the Canadian Urban
Best Canadian Stories 06, ed. Douglas Glover
110 Nancy Richler: Uncovering the "Truth" of History
Hannus, Rachel Lebowitz
112 Adam Sol: A Poet's Obsession
Surviving the Censor, Rafi Aaron
114 Jesse Fergusson: "Charm against Jaguar"
The Book of Were, Wayne Clifford
Notes on Contributors
117
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Dawn McCracken
George Strunz
Tulips, Waterolour, 9 x 12 in.
Contents, No. 234
Fiction
10 Aaron Shepard: A Scent of Hibiscus
30 Randy DeVita: At the Penguinarium
50 Joel Katelnikoff: The Rise and Fall of Hockey Card Empires
69 Salvatore Difalco: The Fishhouse
87 Mary Lou Dickinson: The Empty Chair
102 Zooly McNulty: Molly, Enough's Enough
Poetry
5 Patricia Young: Three Poems
20 A. F. Mortiz: Four Poems
24 Robyn Sarah: Two Poems
27 Margo Wheaton: Two Poems
41 Sonja Greckol: Plummet
42 Paul Finn: Two Poems
44 Matilka Krow: Two Poems
46 Susie DeCoste: Four Poems
59 Emilia Nielsen: Vernacular Hearts
63 Michael deBeyer: Two Poems
65 Nanci Lee: Adopted
66 Jan Conn: Two Poems
81 John Terpstra: Two Poems
84 Eleonore Schnmaier:Dollhoused
85 Rawdon Tomlinson: Two Poems
94 Beverley Bie Brahic: Dream # 1729
95 Aaron Giovannone: Two Poems
96 Young Smith: Two Poems
99 Milan Parab: The Feel of Glass at Night
100 Cory Brown: Memory
Reviews
110 Steve Noyes: Woebegone and Woken Worlds
All Our Wonder Unavenged, Don Domanski
112 Shane Neilson: Two First Collections
Dance of the Suitors, J.M. Villaverde and Bloodknots, Ami Sands Brodoff
115 M. Travis Lane: "Taking the Curse Comic"
The Burning Alphabet, Barry Dempster
118 Heather Jessup: ... made more beautiful by the threat of frost
Airstream, Patricia Young
120 Ian Colford: Who am I? Where did I come from?
Cathedral Women, Carol Malyon
122 Adrian Fowler: Hero, Tragic Figure, or Demagogue?
A Settlement of Memory, Gordon Rodgers
Notes on Contributors
125
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Dawn McCracken
Detail from: Sunflower, Cloud, Late Summer
32 x 40 in, oil on board
Gallery 78 Fine Art
Contents, No. 233
Editorial
5 Ross Leckie
6 Roger Ploude
8 Michael Taylor
10 James Langer
Fiction
28 Andrew Daley: Wermshafter, Love
48 Julie Paul: Feeding on Demand
65 Jared Young: Masters of Kung-Fu
80 Jason Markowsky: The Accordion Player
93 Derek Hayes: A Feel for America
Poetry
12 Simon Armitage: Ten Poems
40 Matt Rader: Two Poems
42 Carla Funk: Two Poems
44 Tom Wayman: The Loneliness of Beauty
46 Stephanie Yorke: Two Poems
55 Kristina Bresnen: Nine Poems
74 David Martin: Concrete Therapy
75 John Lofranco: 100 Miles in 7 days
76 Jennifer Houle: Two Poems
78 Melanie Boyd: Two Poems
87 Henry Beissel: Cosmic Auditorium
88 Karen Hofmann: Two Poems
90 Leif E. Vaage: Two Poems
Reviews
105 Lynn Davies: That Wily Comrade, Self-Doubt
First Writes, Various
108 Ruth Roach Pierson: A Rock-Dove of a Rock & Roller
Radiant Danse uv being, a poetic portrait of bill bissett, Various
111 Steve Noyes: The Elusive Ciphering of Family
The Work of Mercy, Stephen Guppy
113 Warren Heiti: Walker's Shawl, Weaver's End
The Ice House, Melissa Walker
Were the Bees, Andy Weaver
116 Nigel Thomas: A Memorable Sojourn
The Book of Negroes, Lawrence Hill
Notes on Contributors
119
Cover
Lucien Freud (British, 1922- )
Hotel Bedroom, 1954
91.1 x 24.0 cm, oil on canvas
The Beaverbrook Art Gallery / The Beaverbrook Foundation (in dispute,
2004)
Contents, No. 232
Editorial
4 Mark Jarman
Fiction
6 Raymond Fraser: Leonard of Montreal
16 Russell Wangersky: Delivery
23 Patricia Young: The Pool Man
41 Terence Young: The Big Money
48 Julie Paul: Radio Who
59 Alexander Jackson: The God of Dog Teeth and Ice
72 Edward O'Connor: A Loser's Paradise
85 Jasmina Odor: Certainties
94 Gavin J. Babstock: The Landing
100 Richard Cumyn: In the Wash
107 Lorna Drew: Up in the Air and Down
113 David Whitton: The Parties of Sverdlovsk Oblast
117 Barbara Romanik: The Barn
124 Kenneth Bonert: White Flight
147 Anik See: binary
161 Lesley Millard: Out of Season
164 Scott McIntyre: Mnage Quatre
Reviews
173 Steve Noyes: Kayf during Wartime
DeNiro's Game, Rawi Hage
175 Danny Jacobs: When the Wheels Fall Off
The Hour of Bad Decisions, Russell Wangersky
177 Katia Grubisic: Calling it Happiness
Ladykiller, Charlotte Gill and Most Wanted, Vivette J. Kady
180 Ian Colford: If I Die in a Combat Zone
Bonk on the Head, John-James Ford
Notes on Contributors
183
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Carol Collicutt: Untitled - The Havana Series, 2002.
Mixed media on paper, 56 x 38 c. m.
Contents, No. 231
Editorial
5 Ross Leckie
Fiction
10 Naomi K. Lewis: The Guiding Light
33 Jane Finlayson: Breathless
39 Kathleen Brown: National Redirect
64 Christopher Kent: 2500 Miles from Amherst
86 Caitlin Hicks: Catholic Love
Poetry
7 Tim Bowling: The Book Collector
30 John Reibetanz: The Vineyard
31 Carmine Starnino: Squash Rackets
45 Barry Dempster: Two Poems
49 Iain Higgins:Two Poems
51 Valerie Stetson: Two Poems
53 Ron Charach: Minimalist
55 J. Mark Smith: Two Poems
60 Shane Neilson: Two Poems
72 Elizabeth Philips: Two Poems
76 Donna Kane: Two Poems
78 Dan Stryk: Two Poems
82 J. R. Toriseva: Encyclopedia of Grass
84 Mary Cameron: Untitled
85 Page Richards: Temporary Dusk
92 Carla Hartsfield:Womb of Orange
94 Rosemary Clewes: Lookout
95 Adam Sol: Three Poems
98 Eric Miller: Two Poems
Reviews
101 M. Travis Lane: A Cultivated Perception
A Plot of Light, Susan McCaslin
104 Ruth Roach Pierson: The Political Made Poetic
Inventory, Dionne Brand
108 Jesse Ferguson: Breaking Old Ground
Strike/Slip, Don McKay
110 Sheri Benning: On the Day of Wings: The
Wor(l)d According to Anne
When Earth Leaps Up, Anne Szumigalski
113 Robert Priest: Honed, Wise, and Quotable
God is in the Cracks, Robert Sward
116 Shane Neilson: Specific Memories
Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack, Austin
Clarke
Notes on Contributors
119
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Carol Collicutt: Swirl #1
91 x 61 cm, acrylic on mylar
Contents, No. 230
Editorial
5 Ross Leckie
6 Andrew Sant: Australian Poetry
Fiction
33 Russell Wangersky: Bowling Night
41 Roseanne Harvey: Love in Vain
59 Elaine McClusky: Little Eric
68 William Lynch: If I Were Making a Film
88 Laura Wang Arseneau: The Hundred Wild Geese
Poetry
7 Judith Beveridge: Two Poems
9 Sarah Day: Two Poems
11 Stephen Edgar: Two Poems
14 John Kinsella: Two Poems
16 Anthony Lawrence: Two Poems
18 Bronwyn Lea: Two Poems
21 Les Murray: Two Poems
23 Jan Owen: Two Poems
26 Peter Porter: Two Poems
28 Philip Salom: Two Poems
31 Kathleen Stewart: Two Poems
47 Rachel Lebowitz: Three Poems
50 Charlotte Hussey: Two Poems
52 Heather Cadsby: Aubade
53 Patrick Warner: Three Poems
76 Lorna Crozier: Three Poems
79 C. Durning Carroll: About the Forgotten War
80 Janice Whiskeyjack.Cameron: More Than One Empire
81 Kathy Mac: May: Birch
82 Alpay Ulku: Whispering Ice
83 David Clink: Two Poems
85 Steve Noyes: As Was
Reviews
96 M. Travis Lane: Oceanography
Standing Wave, Robert Allen
101 Michael Thorpe: Conscious Tactile Life
Touch Earth, M. Travis Lane
104 Marc Thackray: Searching for Hearts Content
Stormy Weather/Foursomes, Stan Dragland
108 Shane Neilson: A Real Dialogue
Ghost Country, Steve Noyes.
110 M. Travis Lane: Deep Time
No End to the Earth, Hlne Dorion
112 Nancy Bauer: Reeling in Voices
When I Was Young & In My Prime, Alayna Munce
114 Robert Sward: Wild Poems
Night Echoes, Ronnie Brown
States of Matter, Ronnie Brown
Notes on Contributors
119
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Carol Collicutt: Balancing Act
38 x 28 cm, acrylic on paper
Contents, No. 229
Editorial
5 Ross Leckie
Fiction
9 Margaret Sweatman: A White Hotel
31 Kevin A. Couture: Lost Valley
53 Nicholas Ruddock: How Eunice Got Her Baby
72 Michael Bryson: No One Wants to Be Next
87 Carol Bruneau: Combinations
102 Michael Rottman: Bronynosets
Poetry
18 Adam Dickinson: Three Poems
23 Nadine McInnis: Miasma Theory
24 Anne Shifrer: Two Poems
26 Tony DSouza: Vermeers The Letter
27 Andrew Sant: Two Poems
44 John Wall Barger: Random Ceremony #8 (Feast Alone at Cousins Diner)
45 Andrea MacPherson: at the Pigalle Metro
46 Ria Voros: For Marta in Geresdorf
48 Jannie Edwards: Two Poems
50 Elise Partridge: Passages: Daughter and Mother
52 Maureen Hynes: Wedding, 1927
59 Rachel Lebowitz: Four Poems
63 Michael Quilty: Two Poems
69 Peter Richardson: Two Poems
78 Stephanie Yorke: Coronet Player
79 Desmond Graham: Two Poems
82 Shane Rhodes: Within the Limits Herein Defined: A Found Poem
84 Karen Enns: Foresight
85 Amber Dawn Upfold: At Night, Alone
86 Chris Banks: Culling Song
93 Samantha Marcelo: Two Poems
95 Hillel Schwartz: Found
96 Christopher A. Taylor: Facing North
98 David Barrick: A Dove On January 22
100 Sachiko Murakami: Two Poems
Reviews
112 Bill Bauer:
... not explicitly generalized Eyehill, Kelly Cooper
114 M. Travis Lane: Contemporary in the Best Sense
Change in a Razor-Backed Season, Michael DeBeyer
116 Helen Fogwill Porter: Unique and Unrestrained
Bishops Road, Catherine Safer
118 Michael Lockett: Shared Objects
Splitting Off, Triny Finlay
120 Robert Gibbs: An Invigorating Sense of Shared Loss
Beautiful Veins, Joseph Sherman
Notes on Contributors
126
Art
Cover:
Stephen May: Lemon the Canary in Death | Lemon. le carnari, mort
Contents, No. 228
Editorial
5 Ross Leckie
Nonchalant as any human hunger
8 Erin Knight: Three Poems
12 George Sipos: Five Poems
17 Shane Rhodes: Two Poems
21 Stephanie Bolster: Four Poems
25 John Donlan: Three Poems
28 David O'Meara: Four Poems
32 S.E. Venart: Four Poems
36 Sue Sinclair: Three Poems
As if to mark a reader's place
42 Stewart Cole: Four Poems
46 Madeline Bassnett: Four Poems
50 James McCorkle: Four Poems
56 M. Travis Lane: Three Poems
60 Catherine Greenwood: Three Poems
66 Blaise Moritz: Two Poems
Gears are simple, easy
72 Michael Kenyon: The Last House
76 Steve McOrmond: Two Poems
78 Matthew Holmes: Two Poems
80 Debra Franke: Three Poems
84 Katia Grubisic: Three Poems
88 Carmelita McGrath: Two Poems
92 Patricia Young: Three Poems
Lonely, playful, large-beaked, queer and rare
100 John Reibetanz: Four Poems
106 Robert Gibbs: Two Poems
109 E. Blagrave: Four Poems
113 David Manicom: Three Poems
117 Jeredith Merrin: Three Poems
123 Robyn Sarah: Three Poems
Why is the past such a comforting distillery
128 Adam Dickinson: Three Poems
131 Elise Partridge: Two Poems
134 Sharon McCartney: Four Poems
138 Tammy Armstrong: Four Poems
142 John Barton: Three Poems
148 Ken Howe: Two Poems
150 Brian Bartlett: Four Poems
Essay
155 Tim Lilburn: Thinking the Rule of Benedict Within Modernity
Reviews
164 Michael DeBeyer: Joining the Domestic with the Wild
where sound pools, Lynn Davies
166 M. Travis Lane: Excursions:
False Maps for Other Creatures, Jay Millar
170 Sue Sinclair: Not merely a set of peculiar images
Memoirs of an Alias by Jason Heroux.
172 Marnie Parsons: Choice Between Refusal and Assent
Anything but the Moon, George Sipos
Crossing the Straits, Richard Greene
176 JC Bellringer: Potato Chips?
The World Is a Heartbreaker, Sherwin Tjia
177 Ruth Roach Pierson: A Pine Inkling
An Oak Hunch, Phil Hall
182 Stewart Cole: Exquisite Artifice
The Pearl King and Other Poems, Catherine Greenwood
Notes on Contributors
185
Art
Cover:
Bhutan: Mountains, and men with bamboo
Photograph by Ross Leckie
Contents, No. 227
Editorial
5 Ross Leckie
Fiction
9 Grant Buday: The Curve of the Earth
23 Robert James Hicks: Family Day
49 Stephanie Coyne DeGhett: Weather Like Last Year
66 Alison Hack: Ride
84 Laura Boudreau: The Party
86 R. Rti: A Pessimist's Alphabet
92 JC Bellringer: Zlata and Chi Chi
Poetry
19 Judith Krause: Birthday Portrait
21 Jeanette Lynes: The Tenth Anniversary of My Father's Barn
22 Ricardo Pau-Llosa: Regina
39 Melissa Walker: Two Poems
41 Brad Buchanan: Selling Home
42 Laurence Hutchman: Three Poems
46 Michael W. Czuma: Drer's Apprentice
48 Adrienne Barrett: In the bedroom
56 Fiona Tinwei Lam: Two Poems
59 Eric Millter: Five Poems
65 Andrew Titus: On taking down an elm
74 Ingrid Ruthig: Two Poems
76 Margaret Christakos: Son
82 Arthur Bull: Two Poems
87 Jena Schmitt: Three Poems
100 Lisa Martin-DeMoor: Four Poems
Reviews
106 M. Travis Lane: A Rare Originality
According to Loon Bay, Hannah Main-Van der Kamp
109 Dina Cox: Beyond Shirts and Peonies
Worried into Being: An Unfinished Alphabet, Joseph Sherman
112 Ian Colford: Trouble in the Spirit World
Midnight Sun: A Novel, Lawrence Osgood
114 Warren Heiti: Transcriptions of the Apse of Space
The Burning Eaves, David Manicom
117 Ruth Roach Pierson: Public and Private: That Interface
Public Works, Ronna Bloom
processional, Anne Compton
121 Ted Colson: Lo! Angels
The Look of Angels, Geoff Butler
124 JC Bellringer: Just slightly beyond the usual scope of
occupation or experience
A Short Journey By Car, Liam Durcan
Notes on Contributors
127
Art
Cover:
Beth Lenco: White Cat
30 x 30 cm, oil on canvas
Private collection
Contents, No. 226
Fiction
5 Mark Foss: "Off-season"
23 Jason Markowsky: Red Wine Is for Manna
40 Rebecca Fredrickson: Theatre in E Minor
59 Andrew Tibbetts: Thirteen Glimpses of My Mother Unaware of Being Watched
78 Carol Shaben: What You Want to Say
93 Carolyn Norberg: Somewhere in Ontario
97 M.A.C. Farrant: Divination: The Thorny Practice of Wants
Poetry
12 Sheri Benning: Two Poems
15 Mitchell Parry: Five Poems
20 James Langer: Two Poems
22 Roxanna Bennett: Another Motive for Metaphor
31 Jeramy Dodds: Two Poems
33 John Barton: Our Embrace: Random tudes, 1 through 4
37 Suzanne Robertson: Signs
48 Zo Landale: April Is a Cruel Season for Ghosts
49 Robin Chapman: The Eelgrass Meadow
50 Ian LeTourneau: Two Poems
52 Megan Kruse : Two Poems
54 Treava Ann Kellington: Four Poems
58 Kezia Speirs: Old Song and Dance
70 Mike White: Two Poems
73 Elizabeth Brewster: Graveyard in October
75 David Zieroth: Three Poems
84 Ruth Roach Pierson: Four Poems
88 Dave Sidjak: Polis
89 Jason Guriel: Elegy for Josef Hassid, 1923-1950
90 Howard Wright: Two Poems
92 Leigh Kotsilidis: Artificial Reef
Reviews
99 Warren Heiti: Politics and Specificity
Immigrant Blues and From Sarajevo, With Sorrow, Goran Simi
103 M. Travis Lane: Prose or Poetry?
Postcards from Ex-Lovers, Jo-Anne Elder
106 Sharon McCartney: An undercurrent of loss
Drowning Lessons, Maureen Scott Harris
108 Warren Heiti: The Sexiest Small Press in Montral
Barometer, Katia Grubii, The Electric Man, Johanna Skibsrud
110 Shane Neilson: Reaching for Al
Yours, Al: The Collected Letters of Al Purdy, Ed. Sam Solecki
118 Michelle Ariss: Poetic Leverage
A Day's Grace: Poems 1997-2002, Robyn Sarah
120 Ian LeTourneau: To the Form of the Matter
In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poetry,
edited by Kate Braid and Sandy Shreve
Notes on Contributors
123
Art
Cover:
Mark Dixon: Red Pools
35 x 30 cm acrylic on canvas
On exhibit at Gallery 78, Fredericton, NB
in November/December 2005
Contents, No. 225
Editorial
5 Ross Leckie
Fiction
7 Patricia Stone: Cunning Stunts
33 Urs Frei: Chance
59 Jasmina Odor: You Can't Stay Here
81 Garret Dwyer Joyce: The Subversive Effects of Alberta Rain
Poetry
21 Traci Elder O'Dea: Heavy Metal Drummer Part II
23 Jan Conn: Two Poems
27 Jen Currin: Two Poems
30 Chris Hutchinson: Two Poems
43 Roger Nash: What Your Body Says
46 Eleonore Shönmaier: Two Poems
49 Antony Di Nardo: Dead Blue Heron
50 Micheal Blouin: look.here.
52 Donna Kane: Three Poems
56 S.P. Zitner: Two Poems
66 Don McKay: Quartz Crsytal
67 R.M. Vaughan: VEIXE
70 Alpay Ulku: The Watchers
71 Paul C. Howell: Oz
74 Russel Thornton: Two Poems
77 Christine McPhee: Northern Lights
78 Lee McCarthy Singleton: The Cranberry Harversters
89 Derk Wynard: Three Poems
94 Lenna McLennan: from Trapeze
97 Dave Cavanagh: High Wire
99 Barbara Klar: Two Poems
101 Zachariah Wells: Corona: After the Blizzard
Reviews
106 Shane Neilson: Close Adherence to the Spoken Voice
One Heart, One Way, Greg Cook
109 Michael DeBeyer: The Backyard Flickering with Truth
Fireflies in the Magnolia Grove, John Smith
112 Ian Colford: Nightmare Senario
A Perfect Night to go to China, David Gilmour
115 Ian Letourneau: Brent MacLaine's Sleek Purpose
These Fields Were Rivers, Brent Macline
118 David Creelman: A Long Collection of Postmodern Stories
Being Fiction: Short Stories, John Moss
119 Sharon McCartney: Submerged in the Glories of Language
Unsettled, Zachariah Wells
122 Michlle Ariss: Authenticated by the Ear
Always Now (Three Volumes), Margeret Avison
Notes on Contributors
126
Art Cover:
Raymond Martin: Serenade
oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches
Shown at Gallery 78 in Fredericton, Spring 2005
Roger Smith: Photo of cover painting and of small fern.
Contents, No. 224
Editorial
5 Mark Jarman
Fiction
7 Bill Gaston: Freedom
19 Joanne Merriam: Seeing Red
23 Grant Buday: Baggage
30 Edythe Crane: Raising Blood
39 M. Lynx Qualey: Tamar and Gamal
44 Edward O'Connor: Bed of Nails
54 Sean Johnston: Big Books Shut
65 Wanda Campbell: Cat House
72 Clayton Bailey: Optique
79 Barbara Romanik: A Creator Who Cares about You
87 Pasha Malla: Another Great Canadian Ethnic Fiction
89 Kate Sturdy: The Storm
99 Shayna Krishnasamy: The Deed of the Monkeys
104 Mark Blagrave: Proserpina
109 Joan Alexander: Home for Lunch
118 Thomas Abray: Coral
126 Lorna Jackson: Small Forward
143 Joe Villaverde: Tatyana's House
159 Joe Villaverde: Dance of the Suitors
166 Dan Crosby: The Man Who Does Not Sleep
172 M.A.C. Farrant: Now Is the Time
Reviews
175 Shane Neilson: Excellent First-Timers
Way Up, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer.
The Sandblasting Hall of Fame, Lawrence Mathews.
180 Janet Fraser: Strong Voices from Newfoundland
Down to the Dirt, Joel Hynes.
Unraveling Arva, Nicole Lundrigan.
183 Adrian Fowler: Les litanies de l'sle-aux-Chiens
Tales from Dog Island, Franoise Enguehard
186 David Creelman: A Fine Transition
A Far Time, J. A. Wainwright
Notes on Contributors
189
Art Cover:
Brian MacKinnon: "You're Home!"
Enamel, oil, and lacquer on gator board, 36 x 41"
Shown at Gallery 78 in Fredericton, May 2005
Contents, No. 223
Editorial
5 Ross Leckie
Fiction
20 Michle Adams: Infinite Speed
28 Nikolijne Troubetzkoy: Stray Electricity
55 Neil Smith: Bang Crunch
72 Christopher Coffey: The Last Year of the War
Poetry
7 David Hickey: Channel Markers
9 Michael E. Reynolds: Early Spring, Canoe Lake (1917)
10 Walter Bruno: Cat Walk
18 Jeanette Lynes: from The Journals of Beatrix Potter
38 Jan Zwicky: Five Poems
43 Jennifer Bronson: Two Poems
45 Debra Franke: Hung Wedding Dress
46 Susan Gillis: Three Poems
49 Alexandre L. Amprimoz: Personality of Trains II
50 Michael Trussler: Three Poems
60 Ricardo Pau-Llosa: Ibises, Miami
61 Lenora Steele: Two Poems
63 Alice Major: Vastly out of scale
64 Joshua Auerbach: Aerial View: Reading the River
65 Cara Waterfall: Icarus
66 Jean-Mark Sens: Two Poems
68 Troy Jollimore: Two Poems
70 Prairie Markussen: Strike against
71 Carolyn Richardson: a fence, a barn
77 Rachel Lebowitz: Six Poems
83 Rebecca Laroche: In her ninth month, the Pregnant Woman ...
84 Marilyn Lerch: Sun Flower
85 Sam Cheuk: On formulating a Chinese-Canadian poem
97 Nick Thran: Two Poems
100 Linda Besner: Two Poems
102 Hillel Schwartz: Two Poems
Out of Place
86 Marjorie Doyle: The Mute Harp
Reviews
107 Stewart Cole: Recollecting the Future
Night Street Repairs, A.F. Moritz
110 Shane Neilson: The Novella Necromancer and the Novel Memoirist
The Haunted Hillbilly, Derek McCormack
The Syllabus, Mike Barnes
115 M. Travis Lane: Poetry for the Ear
Left Field and The Aging Cheerleader, Jeanette Lynes
117 Warren Heiti: Impressions of the West Wind
What You Used to Wear, Charmaine Cadeau
120 Shane Neilson: A Persistent Piece of Prose
Duet, David Helwig
123 Marc Thackray: Guarding What's Left
The Singer's Broken Throat, Des Walsh
Notes on Contributors
126
Art Cover:
Roger Smith: Unfurling Fiddlehead
(Kodak Elite Chrome 100 slide film.
Pentax MX with 90mm Tamron macro lens)
Contents, No. 222, Winter 2004
Editorial
Tribute to Kay Smith
5 William Prouty: Kay Smith, A Tribute
9 Kay Smith: Again with Music
White Paper Face in the Window
Fiction
15 Bill Shin: Mr. Park
30 Toni Graham: Heaven's Gate
60 Larry Brown: The Right Pieces
Poetry
25 Crystal Hurdle: Sculptress
26 Michael Quilty: concession fog
27 Blaise Moritz: Richmond Hill Memorial Service
29 Hendrik Slegtenhorst: Sinfonia Concertante
46 Leo Brent Robillard: Pietra Bruna
47 Weston Cutter: Fix Infinity
48 Beth Kope: Forecast
50 Suzanne McLean: Two Poems
52 Paul Sohar: Sand Bath
53 Zsofia Balla: I'll Tell You What War Is Like
54 Amy Borkwood: vendetta
56 Elizabeth Bachinsky: Three Poems
70 Sandra Lynn Lynxleg: Bear on a Head of a Pin
72 Monty Reid: from The Luskville Reductions
Conversation
82 In Conversation: Brian Bartlett, Ross Leckie and Anne Simpson
Discuss Jan Zwicky's Wisdom & Metaphor
Reviews
105 M. Travis Lane: "Ravishing Drift"
The Dwelling of Weather, Hilary Clark
107 John Lofranco: "Bunked With an Old Piano"
On Abducting the Cello, Wayne Clifford
109 Nancy Bauer: Coming Up True
Driving to Our Edge, Robert Gibbs
112 Warren Heiti: Mirror in Mirror:
Sue Sinclair's Meditations on Light and Time
Mortal Arguments and The Drunken Lovely Bird, Sue Sinclair
117 Paula Thomas: Naked & Beautiful a Rarefied Delight
So Beautiful, Ramona Dearing
Degrees of Nakedness, Lisa Moore
118 Sue Sinclair: In Praise of Coldness
Somewhere, a Fire, Donna Kane
Notes on Contributors
122
Art
Cover:
Stephen Scott: "Boy with Drum"
85 x 140 cm. Oil on canvas.
Private Collection.
Contents, No. 221, Autumn 2004
Editorial
5 Ross Leckie
Tributes
7 Robert Gibbs: Fred Cogswell: A Listening Ear, A Caring Heart
10 Fred Cogswell: Four Poems
15 Laurence Hutchman: For Fred Cogswell
17 Brian Bartlett: A Knight for Poetry
20 Robert Gibbs: Don Gammon: Mentor and Friend
21 Some "little untuned notes"
23 Donald B. Gammon: Three Poems
Fiction
24 Emily White: Various Metals
44 Robert Lake: Buster Never Cries
65 Eric Freeze: Writing on Stone
89 Carole Langille: Visiting Seymour
Poetry
35 Melanie Jasmine Grant: Let's not talk of love or chains
36 Ray Hsu: Two Poems
39 Peg Duthie: In Search of Restoration
40 John Lofranco: Kashwakamak
42 Helen Guri: The Beginning of Cuisine
54 Sue Chenette: Ritual
56 James Arthur: Two Poems
58 David Reibetanz: Four Poems
64 Erin Knight: Notes in Cyrillic
80 Mike Barnes: Two Poems
82 Steven Price: Houdini's Ropes
83 Sandy Shreve: Whisper Songs
87 gillian harding-russell: Even as i knew
88 Carol Was: Fossil Bowl
98 Margaret A. Robinson: Pears
99 Erin Noteboom: The Sparrow Child
100 Stan Dragland: Three Poems
105 Gerald Hill: One Morning in the Food Court
106 Bren Simmers: Two Poems
Reviews
108 Lynn Davies: The Cartographer's Eye
Cartography and Walking, Adam Dickinson
110 Patrick Warner: sterricky, garricky, wriggling fence
Merrybegot, Mary Dalton.
113 Shane Neilson: Hefty Prose Innovation
A Game to Play on the Tracks, Lorna Jackson
115 Michelle Ariss: A Lively Polemic
Director's Cut, David Solway
118 Dee Horne: A Searing Portrait of Communist China
The Water Lily Pond: A Village Girl's Journey in Maoist China,
Han Z. Li
120 Ross Leckie: Fine Printing: Broadsheets and Chapbooks
Signal Editions International Broadside Series;
(m)Other Tongue Press,
Running the Goat Books and Broadsides
Notes on Contributors
124
Art
Cover: Bruno Bobak: Fred Cogswell
Black conté drawing, 17" x 22"
Collection of the artist
Contents, No. 220, Summer 2004
Editorial
5 Sharon McCartney
Mayfly
9 Anne Simpson: Four Poems
14 Lynn Davies: Three Poems
18 Stephen Brockwell: Three Poems
21 Miltos Sahtouris: I Turn
22 Rosemary Blake: Windfall
23 J. Mark Smith: Fable of the Piyon
24 Calvin Wharton: The Bears
25 Brian Bartlett: Two Poems
29 S.E. Venart: Three Poems
32 warren heiti: the eight hypotheses: parmenides vs. herakleitos
Calndula
39 Shane Rhodes: Calndula
41 Shane Neilson: Seven Poems
49 Anita Dolman: Blame
51 Paul Vermeersch: As it is with the beauty of rivers
53 Rosemary Clewes: Dawn Paddle
54 Aislinn Hunter: Summa Contra Gentiles: Chapter 31
55 Nicholas Bradley: The Rapture
56 Catherine Black: Three Poems
59 Diane Barlee: Two Poems
61 Kevin Bushell: Ciconia Alba
62 Sue Wheeler: The Uses of Flowers
64 Catherine Greenwood: Three Poems
70 Carolyn Norberg: Our Clothesline
71 Jill Connell: travels with carolyn
Another Version
75 Jan Zwicky: Four Poems
79 Steve McOrmond: Three Poems
82 Adam Sol: Three Poems
85 Donna Kane: Four Poems
89 Christopher A. Taylor: Two Poems
93 Elise Partridge: Four Poems
98 Mike Barnes: A Bankruptcy
99 Karen Hofman: Three Poems
102 Ruth Roach Pierson: Two Poems
104 Alan Soldofsky: Two Poems
106 Dorothy Field: Two Poems
Ataraxia
111 Ken Babstock: Four Poems
117 Adam Dickinson: Five Poems
123 Carmine Starnino: Junkyard
125 Sue Sinclair: Four Poems
129 Madeline Bassnett: Humidity
131 Emilia Nielsen: Domestication: A Fable
132 Eric Barstad: Two Poems
134 Thomas O'Grady: Two Poems
136 John Barton: Jon at Mirror
138 bill bissett: we sleep not yet drowning
140 M. Travis Lane: The Pickup Poems
146 Robert Gibbs: Two Poems
149 M. Travis Lane: The "Night" Voices of Robert Gibbs
Reviews
152 J.A. Wainwright: Various Franklins
Franklin's Passage, David Solway
153 Sue Sinclair: Inhabiting the Questions: the Lyric Sensibility
Question & Answer, Alison Pick
157 Ruth Roach Pierson: Constellations of Meaning
Scarecrow, Mark Callanan
159 Patrick Holland: "Someone is about to write a poem":
Deborah Eibel Collected
163 M. Travis Lane: Summoning All That's There
Loop, Anne Simpson
166 Leo Furey: Bridges of Metaphor
Apocrypha: Further Journeys, Stan Dragland
168 Zachariah Wells: Weighed and Set in Place
Rural Night Catalogue, Michael deBeyer
Notes on Contributors
172
Art
Cover: Maggie McLaughlin: "Unmasking."
Oil on canvas, 36 x 40 inches.
Collection of the artist.
Contents, No. 219, Spring 2004
Editorial
5 Mark Anthony Jarman: Edifying Editorial in the Year
of the Wood Monkey
Fiction
11 Craig Davidson: 28 Bones
27 Patricia Young: Majorette
60 Gavin Babstock: From Me to You
75 Rochelle Vigurs: Loons
88 Edward O'Connor: Heard Melodies Are Sweet
Poetry
7 Karen Solie: The Vandal Confesses
9 Antony Di Nardo: After the Fall
10 Ruth Roach Pierson: Forms of Rain
40 Hillel Schwartz: Two Poems
44 Susan Stenson: Two Poems
46 Stephanie Bolster: Four Poems
50 Tim Bowling: Two Poems
52 Brian Purdy: Saltambiques
54 Eric Miller: Five Poems
59 Stephen Heighton: The American Night Listens
67 Jan Conn: The Rainy Season
68 Phillip Crymble: Autumnal
69 Naomi Louder: Two Poems
72 Sarah Feldman: The Ha-Ha
82 Cathleen Hjalmarson: Two Poems
84 Kimberley-Blue Muncey: Motion: Newton II
85 Jim Johnson: Primer
86 Kathy Mac: What the Vacationing Masseur Sees
87 Vaughan Chapman: Between Us in a Dark Time
Reviews
103 Bill Bauer: and the Lost Generation Thought They Were Lost!
A Day Does Not Go By, Sean Johnston
105 Paula Thomas: Approaches from the East
Victory Meat, ed. Lynn Coady
108 Katia Grubisic: Bogged Down in Ireland
Stay, Aislinn Hunter
111 M. Travis Lane: The Loving Mother
Dreaming Our Space, Marguerite Andersen
113 Keri Huffman: Almost Horror
Spells, R.M. Vaughan
115 M. Travis Lane: Emerging Poet
Pupa, Catherine Graham
117 Patrick Kavanagh: Preludes and Prophets
What Is Invisible, Beth Ryan
In the Chambers of the Sea, Susan Rendell
Notes on Contributors
121
Art
Cover Jacques Martin: La réponse du cheval
a 22.5 feet high, 3000-pound COR-TEN(r) steel structure
installed in Jacob's Yard: The Millennium Sculpture Garden,
at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. Summer
2003. Photograph: Mike Johnston
Contents, No. 218, Winter 2004
Fiction
8 Dick Bird: Lighten up, Papa Chango
32 Nicholas Maes: Telephony
55 Jeff Park: Ain't Gonna Be Your Dog
78 Patricia Stone: Construction Sites
Poetry
5 Terence Young: Two Poems
19 Leslie Ritchie: On the Fealty of Medieval Dogs
20 A. F. Moritz: Two Poems
24 Shane Neilson: Two Poems
26 Dani Couture: shrimping: a postcard
27 Michael Quilty: Two Poems
29 Rafi Aaron: Translating Mandelstam
30 Sheila Peters: Two Poems
42 Eve Joseph: Two Poems
44 Alexandra Pasian: Elopement Drive
45 William Buchan: Past It
47 Elana Wolff: Two Poems
49 Joelene Heathcote: Your Last Common Ancestor
50 Charmaine Cadeau: Four Poems
54 Lenora Steele: Pulleys
67 Stephanie Coyne DeGhett: Two Poems
69 Théo Armstrong: Gretel
71 Antony Di Nardo: See anything
72 Leanne Averbach: Christina's World
73 M. E. Mutch: Hemlocks
74 Page Richards: Two Poems
76 Michael Pacey: Two Poems
100 Andrew Steinmetz: Oligodendroglioma
101 Blaise Moritz: Two Poems
103 Stephanie Earp: Beating to the Argolid
105 Anita Lahey: Woman at Clothes Line
106 Jeramy Dodds: Lawn Wedding
Reviews
108 Adam Dickinson: The Temporal Translations of Rain
Russell Thornton, House Built of Rain
110 Kent Thompson: Characters Worth Meeting
Judith McCormack, The Rule of the Last Clear Chance
112 Shane Neilson: A Dogged War Against Artlessness
John Metcalf, An Aesthetic Underground
116 Ian Colford: Of Love and Lost Causes
Richard Cumyn, The Obstacle Course: Stories, and
The View from Tamischeira
120 Tim McIntyre: The Right Details
Fred Stenson, Things Feigned or Imagined: The Craft in Fiction
122 R.M.Vaughan: Trish the Dish
Trish Salah, Wanting In Arabic
Notes on Contributors
124
Cover
Raymond Martin: Entre chien et loup
2003. Oil on canvas, 30" x 40"
Contents, No. 217, Autumn 2003
Fiction
5 Martin Turenne: World of Globes: A Year in Four Quarters
21 Margaret Sweatman: Glass
40 W. Mark Giles: Only to violence: an essay in two parts
43 David Swanson: The Chapter About My First Job
53 S. Halldorson: The clod and the pebble
66 Joy Waller: Men and Other Pastimes
80 Mark Blagrave: Notatas
95 Sean Johnston: All This Town Remembers
Poetry
15 Sarah Vap: January
16 Christine Wiesenthal: On Harrow, Heading Home
17 Steven Heighton: Two Poems
19 Ander Monson: Two Poems
28 Mary Kathryn Arnold: Four Poems
34 John Reibetanz: Four Poems
45 Jen Hadfield: Four Poems
50 Carol Hobbs: Two Poems
52 Iain Higgins: Pietà
58 George Sipos: Five Poems
64 Ian LeTourneau: Two Poems
73 Rosemary Clewes: Two Poems
75 Desmond Graham: Two Poems
77 Michael Quilty: eighth leg
78 Julia McCarthy: Aphelion
91 David Solway: Two Poems
93 Liliane Welch: Holy Women
Reviews
111 Anne Simpson: Things That Shine Through
So Rarely in Our Skins, Robert Moore
113 Katherine Miller: Waiting for Whatever Comes Next
Tending the Remnant Damage, Sheila Peters
115 Paula Thomas: Painting the Baby's Room Green
Hunger, Jane Eaton Hamilton
117 Richard Greene: On the Right Track
All Manner of Misunderstanding, Patrick Warner
119 Sue Sinclair: The Trace of Their Daily Lives
The Afterlife of Trees, Brian Bartlett
Shameless, Marlene Cookshaw
Notes on Contributors
123
Cover
Rick Séguin: Woman with Dark Hair, Painted Metal.
62" x 17" x 17"
On display at Gallery 78, Fredericton, New Brunswick,
Summer 2003.
Contents, No. 216, Summer 2003
Editorial
5 Mark Jarman: The Little Editorial That Could
Smokestack Lightning
9 Priscila Uppal: Three Days Left
16 Camilla Gibb: Tom's Sophistication
21 Jaspreet Singh: A Little Bit of Bar-rough
31 Joel Katelnikoff: Falling out of Bed Repeatedly
33 Melanie Little: The Hard Sell
45 Melanie Little: Mrs. Nichol (Montage)
52 Kenneth J. Harvey: Eight Days Ago
Over, Under, Sideways, Down
59 Joanna Cockerline: Postcards (Not Sent) from Africa
65 Patricia Young: Slang for Girl
75 Terence Young: Rumours of Human Sacrifice
83 Linda Mannheim: Somoza's Stones
103 Richard Cumyn: Saints' Rest
111 Marzena Adriana Czarnecka: Russian Sailors
Priestess With Her Wrenches
123 Andrew Steinmetz: Monkey Life
128 Yasuko Thanh: Lula May's Love Stories
139 Grant Buday: from Rootbound
147 Nancy Bauer: The Smell of Shrimps
151 Leon Rooke: Lamplighter Bridegroom 360
Reviews
159 Aletheia Plankiw: The Fetid Zone
The Hydra's Tale: Imagining Disgust, Robert Rawdon
162 Nancy Bauer: Peering into the Future
Coming Attractions 01, ed. Maggie Helwig
Coming Attractions 02, ed. Maggie Helwig and Mark Jarman
Notes on Contributors
166
Cover
Photo by Mark Jarman
California, 1986
Contents: No. 215, Spring 2003
Editorial
5 Ross Leckie
Fiction
Winner:
7 Gina Ochsner: A Wish Before Dying
Honourable Mentions:
30 Dave McIntyre: Whiteout
51 Tony Antoniades: The Squared Circle
72 Patrick Francis: The Personal Musings of the Notorious Kevin
Carrey
Poetry
Winner of the Ralph Gustafson Prize for Poetry
26 Anita Lahey: Out to Dry in Cape Breton
Poetry Honourable Mentions:
27 Nicholas Ruddock: Squid
28 Chris Jennings: Cuchulain Still Fights with the Sea
40 Margaret Christakos: Four Poems
44 b. borkent: Two Poems
46 Kai Fierle-Hedrick: Long Point, Chiaroscuro
47 Monika Lee: ice shards and blade marks
48 Steve McOrmond: Two Poems
50 Roger Nash: Weather Forecasts for Your Body
61 Jen Currin: Three Poems
64 John Donlan: Two Poems
66 Eric Ormsby: Two Poems
69 David Manicom: Three Poems
89 Carol L. MacKay: A Lifetime of Lucky Peace
90 Sheri Benning: Two Poems
92 Roseanne S. Carrara: Two Poems
97 Lynda Monahan: more stone than water
98 Sara Cassidy: Two Poems
100 Matthew Tierney: Three Poems
Reviews
103 Lynn Davies: Heartline to Ledger
American Standard, Joseph Sherman
106 Shane Neilson: A Furnace of Word
Early Poems, A.F. Moritz
109 M. Travis Lane: The Promise of Scree and Talus
Instruments of Surrender, Christine Wiesenthal
110 Marnie Parsons: "early and strange"
Days into Flatspin, Ken Babstock
113 Margo Wheaton: A Passionate Intelligence
Burning Bush, Elizabeth Brewster
116 gillian harding-russell: Two Windows on the World
Clara Callan, Richard Wright
120 Lance Callahan: Two Unique Voices in the
Choir of Caribeean Diasporic Poetry
Kwame Dawes: Midland
Pamela Mordecai: Certifiable
Notes on Contributors
123
Contents: No. 214, Winter 2002
Fiction
17 Liam Durcan: American Standard
43 Joanna Hubbs: Dreams of Guatemala
61 Colin McNeil: Jet Pause
80 Charlotte Gill: Mothers
Poetry
5 Don Domanski: Walking Down to Acheron
9 Sue Sinclair: Three Poems
12 Michael deBeyer: Four Poems
16 Mike Dempsey: Lighthouse Point
32 Eric Ormsby: Two Poems
36 Daria Dolsen: Untitled
40 Howard Wright: Two Poems
42 Stephen Brockwell: Irises
52 B.Z. Niditch: Bachiana Brasileiras
53 Carlos de Oliveira: River Farewell, I to V
58 gillian harding-russell: Open window
59 Frank J. Cormier: Ephemerae
60 Ricardo Pau-Llosa: The Laws of Permanence
68 Jacob Bachinger: Morning
69 Monique Tschofen: insecare (i), (ii), (iv)
72 Susanna Roxman: October
73 Ronnie R. Brown: Little Red Riding Hood, Part II
74 Margo Wheaton: Night Hymn
76 Ray Hsu: I even dream about this
77 Eric Hill: Nocturnes (v)
78 Jim Johnson: Synapse
79 Erin Michie: The Memory of Water
92 Michael Kenyon: Two Poems
94 Robert Gibbs: Five Poems
99 Joshua Auerbach: Bone Lodge Intrusions
100 Erin Noteboom: Two Poems
102 Samara Brock: Two Poems
104 Jennifer Bronson: Two Poems
105 David Hickey: Bypass
Reviews
107 Sue Sinclair: All Are Naked, None Is Safe
Harm's Way, Maureen Hynes
110 Patrick Kavanagh: Place and Time
Donovan's Station, Robin McGrath
113 M. Travis Lane: Taking Heart
Purity of Absence, Dave Margoshes
115 Ian Colford: A Tale of Gleeful Improbability
Down There by the Train, Kate Sterns
117 Kristel Thornell: The Dance of Exile
Mile End, Lise Tremblay
120 Anne Simpson: Walking and Writing
spar: Words in Place, Peter Sanger
Notes on Contributors
123
Art
Cover Molly Lamb Bobak: Cosmos, 1970
Watercolour on paper, 58.5 x 43.3 cm.
Gift of Molly Lamb Bobak in Memory of Elizabeth Baker.
The Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick
Contents: No. 213, Autumn 2002
Fiction
5 Ramona Dearing: Gulioni's Zipper
18 Dawn Rae Downton: On the Gunn Road
43 Leslie Timmins: Unzip the Dog
78 Josée Lafrenière: Flinch
93 Ken Rivard: Two Short Short Stories
97 Anosh Irani: Bullet No. 1
Poetry
12 M. Travis Lane: Thunder
13 Elizabeth Rhett Woods: Dog Lover
14 Jennifer Still: Moth Lake, Fishing Album
16 Sue Wheeler: Two Poems
28 Richard Sanger: Two Poems
31 John Reibetanz: Three Poems
35 Eric Ormsby: Soliloquy at Nightfall in the Mayflower Hotel
40 Melissa Walker: Two Poems
54 Holly Luhning: Two Poems
57 Sue Sinclair: Four Poems
61 Jill MacLean: Two Poems
73 Gloe Cormie: Cornflowers
74 Giovanni Malito: Lassitude
75 Andy Weaver: Judas, before
76 Esther Mazakian: Two Poems
87 Erina Harris: when making ends meet
89 Grant Sheppard: Two Poems
91 Catherine Owen: Two Poems
95 M.F. Tierney: Marchland
96 Mary Cameron: Eve Becoming
In Place
63 Lynn Davies: Cross-Training and Play
Reviews
108 Thomas O'Grady: Milton Acorn: The Man, the Myth, the Poet
The Edge of Home: Milton Acorn from the Island, Milton Acorn
110 Kristel Thornel: Small Measures of Salvation
Critical Injuries, Joan Barfoot
113 David Creelman: Writing the Fine Line
Walking in Paradise, Libby Creelman
16 Categories of Desire, Douglas Glover
116 R.M. Vaughan: Our Verlaine
Hypothesis, John Barton
117 Chris Pannell: Nature, History and the Mysteries of Memory
Weathers: Poems New and Selected, Douglas Lochhead
121 Ian Colford: "To endure, unchanged"
Seasoning Fever, Susan Kerslake
123 M. Travis Lane: Conditional Joy
Selected Poems. Ralph Gustafson
Notes on Contributors
123
Art
Cover Brian MacKinnon: Office Staff
Enamels, fingernail polish on wood. 24"x24"x1"
This painting is on exhbition at Gallery 78 in Fredericton.
Contents: No. 212, Summer 2002
5 The question is one of innocence
7 Shawna Lemay: Three Poems from "Anatomy of a Still Life"
10 Bert Almon: A Corona for Grinling Gibbons
12 John Reibetanz: Guardian Moon
15 Jennifer Bronson: Two Poems
17 Elise Partridge: Three Poems
22 Vanessa Moeller: Four Poems
26 Susan Gillis: Kitchen Floor
28 Richard Sanger: Love Lessons
32 Kevin McNeilly: Two Poems
34 Matthew Sweeney: Four Poems
39 Leaving the street map of her palm
41 Maureen Hynes: Two Poems
44 Brent MacLaine: Two Poems
48 Tim Bowling: Two Poems
52 John Steffler: Two Poems
56 Miranda Pearson: Two Poems
58 Melissa Walker: Four Poems
62 Jeffery Donaldson: Three Poems
68 Tammy Armstrong: Four Poems
72 David Zieroth: Two Poems
75 The language of trains, the / shuddering against the track
77 R.M. Vaughan: An Herbal for Men Who Live Alone
80 Triny Finlay: Four Poems
82 Joanne Merriam: Two Poems
84 Shaena Lambert: Three Poems
87 Hillel Schwartz: Two Poems
91 Sean Johnston: Two Poems
94 Michael deBeyer: Three Poems from Natural Laws: Ayr, Ontario
96 John Smith: Four Poems
100 Eric Barstad: Four Poems from "Towards an Aviary"
102 Holly Luhning: Three Poems
107 Reading a favourite forgotten book
109 Sue Sinclair: Three Poems
114 David Reibetanz: Two Poems
117 Jane Southwell Munro: Two Poems
119 Susan Glickman: Two Poems
123 Jan Conn: Four Poems
127 Anne Simpson: Time/Space: The Trailer Park
Reviews
139 Katia Grubišic: On Flight and Untangling
The Wireless Room; Holding Pattern, Shane Rhodes
141 Halli Villegas: Diving into Art
Keeping Afloat, M. Travis Lane
144 Lynn Davies: A Habit of Clarity
Secrets of Weather & Hope, Sue Sinclair
147 M. Travis Lane: Words For Music
The Birth and Burial Grounds, Boyd Warren Chubbs
150 Ross Leckie: Poetics
Home and Away: Vis à Vis, Don McKay.
Making Our Poets Explicit: Guernica Writers Series
Notes on Contributors
155
Art
Cover Freeman Patterson:
The trail of a sand adder on a large dune near Pomona in Namibia.
Photograph from Odysseys: Meditations and Thoughts for a Life's
Journey. A Phyllis Bruce Book, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. 1998.
Contents: No. 211, Spring 2002
Editorial
5 Ross Leckie
Fiction
14 Rosaria Campbell: Reaching Fiction Winner
43 Patricia Young: Pope of Rome Honourable Mention
63 Lesley Millard: One Hundred Words for Pink Honourable Mention
91 Simon Fanning: Paul
Poems
7 Chris Weagle: Bone Confessions Winner Ralph Gustafson Prize
8 Karen Solie: Science and the Single Girl Honourable Mention
12 Aengus MacIntosh: On Islands Honourable Mention
30 Kathy Mac: Mark I from Substitutions
32 Erich Wolfgang Skwara: Two Poems
35 Barbara Simler: Christmas Eve
37 Robert Gibbs: A Requiem for Jim
40 Sarah Klassen: War in the interlake
42 Leanne McIntosh: Still Life with Rhinestones
57 Brad Buchanan: Picking Fruit
58 Barry Butson: Delightful as a Day in May
59 Maureen Bilerman: You Never See the Garden Die
60 John Degen: Two Poems
62 Tanis MacDonald: The Siren's Promise
80 Lisa Guenther: chipped, not broken
82 Zoë Landale: Cotoneaster Berries
84 Souvankham Thammavongsa: Portrait of a Palm Closing
85 Michael Aird: Vertigo
86 Stephen Pender: A problem of induction
88 Degan Davis: Calling
90 Dieter Weslowski: Trade Tricks
97 Mark Callanan: Road Home
98 M.E. Csamer: One Wing
99 Valerie Voon: On gardening
100 Dorthy Field: Desert Speak
101 Aurian Haller: IVfrom Five Oranges
102 Pablo Neruda: Motionless Season
Reviews
103 Margo Wheaton: Beautifully Sung
Hymns to Phenomena,
S.D. Johnson
105 Bill Bauer: Read, Pump and Glide
Getting Out of Town By Book and Bike, Kent Thompson
109 M. Travis Lane: Oddly Beautiful Structures
Tasting the Darkness: New and Selected Poems,, George Amabile
113 Sandra Barry: A Hum of Image, Language and Cadence
Landmarks: An Anthology of New Atlantic Canadian Poetry of the Land,,
Hugh MacDonald and Brent MacLaine
116 Ian Colford: Seductive Worlds
Entering the Landscape,, Eric Henderson & Madeline Sonik
119 Kristel Thornell: The True Riddle of the Sphinx
The Truth about Love, Patrick Roscoe
Notes on Contributors
123
Art
Cover Marian Wells: The Message
Acrylic on canvas, 30 in. x 36 in.
Contents: No. 210, Winter 2001
Fiction
5 Meg Holden: New York Burn Out
26 Kirk Wirsig: In the Bite
42 Irene Livingston: Down Around the Corners
60 Darryl Whetter: A Peg and One Fin
90 N. J. Tooke: from Chadwick End
Poems
12 Eric Miller: Three Poems
16 John Donlan: Two Poems
18 Shawna Lemay: Three Poems from "Anatomy of a Still Life"
21 Sheri Benning: The Breath of Looking
22 Adam Dickinson: Three Poems
25 George Sipos: langue/parole
36 Amanda Lamarche: The Dresser
37 Elizabeth Bachinsky: Pack
38 Andy Weaver: Lake Superior
39 Deirdre Dwyer: Tubing Festival, Gaspereau
40 Antony Christie: Two Poems
49 Coral Hull: Cockies
50 Jena Schmitt: Quiescence
51 Hillel Schwartz: The Two Million Starlings of Perpignan, December 1996
54 Ken Howe: Walks with Humane Society's David Suzuki Jones "Zuki"...
57 Shane Rhodes: Three Poems from "Clutch"
80 Claude Liman: Master of the Dumpster Bin
82 John Gallas: Two Poems
84 Virgil Suarez: Three Poems
87 Alexandra Pasian: That August on the coast,
88 Souvankham Thammavongsa: Because
89 Ryan Van Cleave: The Widow, Mrs. Chung
Reviews
96 Kent Thompson: Wandering through the Decades
Golden Goa, Grant Buday
97 Jeanette Lynes: Tonic for the Grieving Heart
Excessive Joy Injures the Heart, Elisabeth Harvor
101 Jeffery Donaldson: A Geometry of Space and of Mind
Cometology, Stephen Brockwell
103 Ian Colford: A Rare Thing
The Uncharted Heart, Melissa Hardy
105 Christopher Levenson: Different Worlds
The Killed, Douglas Burnet lsmith
Cape Enragé, Douglas Lochhead
110 Derek Webster: Underneath Wine-dark Waves
Saracen Island: the poetry of Andreas Karavis and
An Andreas Karavis Companion, David Solway; David Solway:
Essays on His Works, ed. Carmine Starnino.
Notes on Contributors
118
Art
Cover Stephen Scott: Skaters
Oil on panel, 7" X 12"
Private Collection
Contents: No. 209, Autumn 2001
Fiction
5 Richard Cumyn: Early Easter
28 J.L. Lanaway: The Weight of Snow
42 Debby Dobson: The Dog Woman
56 Nancy Mauro: Fifty Beautiful Girls
76 Robert McGill: Confidence Men
100 Eva Stachniak: A Sign
Poems
21 Michael Kenyon: This Longing
22 Leanne Averbach: blue moon over forever
24 Steve McOrmond: Three Poems
27 Kelly Parsons: How the Dog
32 Kathryn Mockler: Pillsbury Factory: London, Ontario 1989
49 Katherine Cameron: Meditation on an Earring
50 Jennica Harper: Dragonfly
52 Donna Kane: Two Poems
53 Tim Cassidi: Rain Season
64 Ursula Krechel: Two Poems
68 Günter Kunert: Three Poems
74 L.E. McCullough: Nicolaes Berchem: On The Death of a Favourite...
88 Sean Horlor: For Britany & The Continent
89 Alison Pick: Winter: Leaving the Farm
90 Robin Roberton: Two Poems
92 David Solway: Two Poems
95 Laurence Hutchman: Two Poems
98 Stan Rogal: Frieze
Reviews
108 M. Travis Lane: Speech as Machination
Installations, Nicole Brossard
110 Allan Briesmaster: A Flowing Architecture
Mining for Sun, John Reibetanz
114 Sue Sinclair: The Contingencies of Flesh
a ruckus of awkward stacking, matt robinson
118 Anne Compton: Of Sons and Fathers
Sledgehammer and other poems, John Mackenzie
121 Lynn Davies: Part Mourner, Part Naturalist
If Men Lived On Earth, Harry Thurston
Notes on Contributors
124
Art
Cover Stephen Scott:Toward Durham
Oil on panel, 5 1/2 X 6 1/4"
Private Collection
Contents: No. 208, Summer 2001
Editorial:
5 Mark Anthony Jarman
Stories:
7 Leon Rooke: A New Relationship With Yogurt
19 Anne Simpson: ATV
23 Lesley Krueger: Life So Far
42 Leo McKay Jr.: In a Quiet House
48 J. Jill Robinson: You Are Not Yourself Right Now
58 Grant Buday: The Rope-Maker's Daughter
72 Sarah Weir: All the Soul-and-Body Scars
80 Jaspreet Singh: Spellbound
87 Jaspreet Singh: Kanak
95 Kelly Cooper: Copperman
106 Todd Babiak: Agriculture
114 Frances Boyle: Two-Tone
115 Lawrence Mathews: Hanrahan Agonistes
128 Joelene C. Heathcote: A Room in Chang Hung
135 M. F. Coady: Let Perpetual Light
148 Bill Gaston: Sitting Well With Hair On Fire
Reviews:
156 Bill Bauer: Good Body, Good Mind The Good Body, Bill Gaston
158 Sue Sinclair: Telling It Like It Is Play the Monster Blind, Lynn Coady
161 Ian Colford: Once More Into the Fray Burridge Unbound, Alan Cumyn
163 David Creelman: More Real Than a Herd of Saints? Mercy Among the Children,
David Adams Richards
166 Jennifer Andrews: Tradition and Change Monkey Beach, Eden Robinson
167 Ross Leckie: This Difficult Idea of Home Simple Recipes, Madeleine
Thien
171 Lance Callahan: This Did All Happen This All Happened, Michael Winter
Art
Freeman Patterson:
Cover
No. 207, Spring 2001
Editorial:
Ross Leckie
Poetry:
James Arthur: Thanksgiving Winner, Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize
Anne Simpson: The Lilacs Honourable Mention
M. Travis Lane: Portobello Honourable Mention
Sue Sinclair: Four Poems for Virginia Woolf
Leslie Ritchie: Syrinx
Thomas O'Grady: After Horace
Eric Miller: Celestial Navigations
Michael Reynolds: Glimpse
Brian Bartlett: Two Poems
John Reibetanz: Two Poems
Eric Trethewey: Paths
Carole Langille: The Author
Heather MacLeod: Two Poems
David Manicom: The Late Qing
A. F. Moritz: Four Poems
Hillel Schwartz: Three Poems
Chris Jennings: Cassandra, 3 a.m.
Allan Garshowitz: Two Poems
Barry Dempster: The Morning Devours
J.C. Heathcote: Temporary Wives
Robert Price: Two Poems
Jim Redmond: Girl at the Library
David Rigsbee: Safe Box
Jennie Morrow: to dry
Amanda Hathaway Jernigan: Leda
Brian Wickers: Transients
Margo Button: Why I Did It
Fiction:
Kelly Cooper: River Judith Fiction Winner
Patricia Young: Lost Bees Honourable Mention
Billie Livingston: Thin-Skinned Honourable Mention
Laura Lush: The Worm Girl
Out of Place:
Barry Webster: The Innocence of Water
Reviews:
M. Travis Lane: Other Tastes Invisible to Predators, R.M. Vaughan;
wipe.under.a.love, Margaret Christakos a Blue with Blood in it,
Elizabeth Philips
Barbara Colebrook Peace: "Because / you sang to them" Ruin and Beauty,
Patricia Young
Sharon McCartney: Grounded in Water Water Stair, John Pass Slow-Moving
Target, Sue Wheeler
matt robinson: (Away) from Anne: Two Recent Collections from PEI Four
ways of dealing with bullies, Richard Lemm Wind and Root, Brent
MacLaine
Art
Suzanne Hill
Front Cover: Scarecrow Series: King
mixed media on paper, 72" x 28"
Page 16: Installation at Acadia University
No. 206, Winter 2000
Editorial:
Ross Leckie
Fiction:
Andrew Gray: Deer
John Keyes: This Is What You Are Here For
Lorna Jackson: Where Does All the Bad Air in the World Go?
Michael Petrou: Before the Spring
Poems:
Adam Dickinson: Two Poems
Tim Lilburn: Hearing
Clayton Hansen: Two Poems
James Norcliffe: Two Poems
Stephanie Bolster: Night occurs dimmer each time
J.V. Makowski: View from the Bluff
David Manicom: Reading Anglo-Saxon When Spring Comes Early
Eric Ormsby: Three Poems
Richard Greene: Begin Again, Four Sonnets
James Boston: Sestina
Anne Compton: Tower: Poem for the Spoken Voice
Kenneth Pobo: Two Poems
Catherine Owen: From here to nowhere in 27 years
Patrick Hanlon: With Frozen Brush
Robert Sward: Fashion Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
Tony Steele: Prairie Landscape
Peter Norman: Three-Tone Electronic Fanfare
Zo Landale: Two Poems
Martha Baillie: Seated in July
Triny Finlay: we fight rancid winds all summer
James Arthur: Two Poems
Ekaterina Hatigan: Birds
Jean-Mark Sens: Rain Apples
Christopher A. Taylor: Night Train
Billeh Nickerson: Group Photograph
Dolores Stewart: Two Poems
From UNB's Writers-in-Residence:
Colleen Wagner: The Morning Bird
Douglas Fetherling: Islands Cruiser
Reviews:
M. Travis Lane: Two First Books
Treading Fast Rivers, Eleonore Schnmaier
Persephone Quartets, Rose Sujata Arora
Bill Bauer: Fun and Heartbreak in Nova Scotia
Righteous Living, Maureen Hull
Lynn Davies: The Day of the Dead
The Shadows Fall Behind, Margo Button
Michelene Adams: Mon Chagrin, mon hritage
At the Full and Change of the Moon, Dionne Brand
Christoph Lorey: Frederick Philip Grove's Controversial German Years
"Je vous cris, en hte et fivreusement." Felix Paul Greve Andr
Gide:
Korrespondenz und Dokumentation, Jutta Ernst and Klaus Martens
Ross Leckie: The Rhetoric of Romanticism
The Thin Smoke of the Heart, Tim Bowling
Art
Suzanne Hill
Front Cover: Scarecrow Series: Predatory Bird, (one of four)
mixed media on paper, 24 x 24"
Back Cover: Scarecrow Series: Predatory Bird, (one of four)
mixed media on paper, 24 x 24"
Autumn 2000, No. 205
Poems:
matt robinson: new gravestone in winter
Richard Norman: Pastoral December
Joseph Hutchison: The Same Fire
Andrew Steeves: Two Poems
Gerard Donovan: Good Weather at Fastnet Lighthouse
Christopher Patton: Three Poems
Leanne McIntosh: Two Poems
Virgil Suarez: Two Poems
Degan Davis : Stradivarius Stolen from Dying Violinist
Suzanne Hancock: Vera
Rosana Roth: Footbridge in Winter
Elana Wolff: Two Poems
Nancy Lee : Careless
Carla Drysdale: Four Poems
Beverley Bie: Two Poems
Ryan G. Van Cleave: Remember When You Had Answers
Rawdon Tomlinson: Tattoo
Selwyn Pritchard: Recessional
Diane Reid: Two Poems
Kenneth Sherman: Two Poems
Robert Moore: world series
JC Wilcke : boeuf
Howard Wright: Two Poems
Esther Mazalian: Fathers Day
Sean Horlor : Lucid Dreams: The Hot Night Wind .
. .
Aislinn Hunter: Two Poems
Adam Sol: Song
Fiction:
Joanna Goodman: Death & Taxes
Will Harvey: Rocketship
Lee Henderson: Attempts at a Great Relationship
Liam Durcan: Blood
Out of Place:
Eric Miller: Fredericton and Fatherhood
Reviews :
Brian Bartlett: Among the Shades and
the Clarities
Rest on the Flight into Egypt: A. F. Moritz
E. Russell Smith: A Passionate Observer
The Rocks Stillness, Liliane Welch
Lorna Drew: A Song of Sorrow, not Despair
No Great Mischief, Alistair MacLeod
Sue MacLeod: Removing the Shadows
The Stone Cloak, Shari Andrews
Nancy Bauer: An Astonishing Thread of Commonality
Words Out There: Women Poets in Atlantic Canada,
ed. Jeannette Lynes
Lance Callahan: One of Historys Most Forgotten Women
In the Hands of the Living God, Lillian Bouzane
125 David Solway: Living in a House of Words
A House of Words, Norman Ravvin
Art
Bruce Gray
Front Cover: Coffeetable, asymmetrical,
trestle base (Detail). Fredericton white elm, pau ferro butterfly.
18 h x 23 w x 60 l.
Private collection.
Back Cover: Sculptured Rocker, black
cherry frame and seat, pau ferro spindles and rockerware plate.
Summer: No. 204 POETRY 2000
Poetry 2000, the summer issue, is a feast fit for friends of
The Fiddlehead. Dedicated to Al Purdy, this 260-page issue of the
venerable fern is the fattest ever published. Resplendently stuffed with
wonderful poems by Canadas best, young and old, famous and not-yet famous
poets, it also includes an interview with Al Purdy by Laurence Hutchman,
and a review by Robert Kroetsch of The Last Canadian Poet: An Essay
on Al Purdy by Sam Solecki, plus many more book reviews.
Poems:
Bert Almon,
Douglas Barbour, Brian Bartlett, John Barton, Michael deBeyer, Stephanie
Bolster,
Anne Compton, Marlene Coolshaw, Olga Costopoulos, Michael Crummey,
Lynn Davies, Adam Dickinson, John Donlan,
Katy Ellis,
Allan Garshowitz, Veronica Gaylie,
Carla Hartsfield, Aislin Hunter,
Tonja G. Klaassen,
M. Travis Lane, Carole Langille, Shawna Lemay, Richard Lemm, Tim Lilburn,
James Longenbach,
Susan McCaslin, James McCorkle, Don McKay, Steve McOrmond,
J.V. Mackowski, David Manicom, Eric Miller, A.F. Moritz,
Roger Nash,
Thomas OGrady,
Eric Ormsby,
Elise Partridge, Barbara Colebrook Peace, Alison Pick, Craig Poile,
John Reibetanz, Shane Rhodes, matt robinson, Jay Ruzesky,
Norm Sibum, Anne Simpson, Sue Sinclair, Karen Solie, David Solway, Carmine
Starnino,
Susan Stenson, Betsy Struthers,
Christopher Weagle, Andy Weaver, Liliane Welch, Sue Wheeler, Derk Wyand,
Patricia Young,
Jan Zwicky.
Reviews:
Robert Kroetsch: Reading Solecki Reading Purdy: A Digressive Review.
The Last Canadian Pet: An Essay on Al Purdy by Sam Solecki.
Bob Gibbs: Our Milton, Radical and Rooted.
Milton Acorn: In Love and Anger by Richard Lemm.
David Creelman: Seeking Private Nowlan.
If I could turn and meet myself: The life of Alden Nowlan by Patrick
Toner.
Sue Sinclair: Looking for Home: Books by Tim Lilburn.
To the River; and Living in the World as if It Were Home.
Ken Babstock: Lift, Drag, Clide, and Hover.
Another Gravity by Don McKay.
Lynn Davies: Yearning for Drama.
A Woman Alone on the Atikokan Highway by Jeannette Lynes.
A.F. Moritz: Here is elsewhere, elsewhere is here.
Song of the Vulgar Starling by Eric Miller.
Margo Wheaton: Beneath the Body's Thin Surfaces.
Light Falls Through You by Anne Simpson.
Sue Sinclair: In A Room the Colour of Flesh.
Under the Abdominal Wall by Sharon McCartney.
Barbara Colebrook Peace: Astonishing Feats of Levitation.
Double Comersaults by Marlene Cookshaw.
Lance Callahan: Petry Neither Beheaded nor Un-torsoed.
The Asparagus Feast by S.P. Zitner.
Cover:
Freeman Patterson: House in Kolmanskop, southern Namibia
Spring 2000 Issue No. 203
Fiction
Fiction winner: Madeleine Thien: House
Honourable mentions: Richard Cumyn: Give the Dull
Boy a Chance
J.A. McCormack: Plural
Poetry
Ralph Gustafson Prize: Eric Miller: Untimeliness
Honourable mentions: Dorothy Trail Spiller: OLD AGE
comes with winter
Marlene Cookshaw: Niagara
Plus Poems by
Michelle Tracy: Sleeping Beauty at Lauds
Mark Sinnett: Three Poems
S.D. Johnson: But Quietly
Tom Wayman: On Eby's Path
Bernice Friesen: The Last of the Willow Bunch Giant
Rob Filgate: Barn Door Detail
Gillian Jerome: Two Poems
Marilyn Lerch: Love in Evolution
R.M. Vaughan: from In a Year with 13 Moons
Shane Rhodes: Gamut
helen zisimatos: blue bird
Eugene Dubnov: Two Poems
Selwyn Pritchard: Last Epiphany of the Second Christian Millennium
Christopher Weagle: Ode on a North American Desk
Deanna Yonge: The Coming of Rain
David Gravender: Flower Child
Erin Bidlake: End of Summer
randy lundy: the only grace
Shane Book: Talk
Russell Thornton: Two Poems
Sandy Shreve: Two Poems from Tai Chi Variations
Steve Noyes: Two Poems
Diane Reid: Dandelions Stand
Bill Tinley: Snorkelling at Annestown
Arthur Bull: Search and Rescue
Mark Van Dam: Low Tide
Colin Carberry: Two Poems
Elizabeth Brewster: First Day
Patricia MacKenzie: watching for whales
Reviews
Ted Colson: Two Miramichi Salmon Books: Lines on the Water, David
Adams Richards; Luther Corhern's Salmon Camp Chronicles, Herb
Curtis
Adam Dickinson: By the shape of a Canoe: Tales of an Empty Cabin,
Grey Owl
Michael DeBeyer: Skeletons Under the Lyric Skin: Emery, Laurence
Hutchman, View from My Mother's House, Carl Leggo
Ian Colford: At the Edge of the Abyss: Let the Day Perish, Christian
Petersen
Carol Malyon: Characters Who Can't Always....: Three Novels by Eliza Clark
Barbara Colebrook Peace: Whose Words Have Been Stolen or Erased: The
Saning and Heaven Cake, Linda Rogers.
Winter 1999 Issue No. 202
Fiction
Susan Zettell: Night Watches
Tamas Dobozy: Following
Fat Thursday, 2006
Ian Colford: Imagining
Rosalee
Tony Steele: The Numbers
of Joy
Poetry
Anne Simpson: Preparing
for Descent
Christopher A. Taylor: Two
Poems
Jill MacLean: Gift of a
Day
Bob Ashley: Three Poems
Bill Tinley: Words for
a Lullaby
Catherine Graham: Black
Kettles
Glen Sorestad: Two Poems
Robert Moore: This morning
on the phone
Ellen McGinn: Blue Willow
Billie Livingston: The
Conductor
Margaret Ormond: Tantramar
Lioba Happel: Two Poems
Carleton Wilson: Junction
Sonnets
Christopher Patton: Three
Poems
Hillel Schwartz: Two Poems
chèle thorsen: Two
Poems
Sue MacLeod: This is the
body, consoling itself
David Seymour: Two Poems
Treena Kortje: Variations
of Eve - The First Time
Marianne Bluger: Two Poems
Karen Mulhallen: The Great
Barrier Reef
Paul W. Harland: A Summer
Song
Andrew Stubbs: estevan
saskatchewan
Carol MacKay: A Week Before
I Left, You Came Close
Dee Horne: Scaling Purdy
richard krueger: this hour
of travel has lasted two
Shaun Leggett: Sundown
Reviews
Lisa Alward: A sensual and
grotesque fullness. The White Bone, Barbara Gowdy
Sue Sinclair: Latent Heat:
The Flame of Domesticity. Latent Heat, Catherine Hunter
Brian Bartlett: Assuming the
Shape of Hope. How I Joined Humanity at Last, David Zieroth
Carol Malyon: We pay attention
& are never the same again. Influence of the Moon, Mary Borsky;
and a body to remember with, Carmen Rodrigques; How to Get There
from Here, Michelle
Berry.
M. Travis Lane: The Pervasive Figure.
A Broken Bowl, Patrick Friesen;
The Church Not
Made With Hands, John
Terpstra; Minotaurs and Other Alphabets, Nicole Markotic
Kent Thompson: The World in
Shop Windows. My PARIS, Gail Scott
Colleen Wagner: Family Politics.
Corker, Wendy Lill
Ross Leckie: Uncanny Affiliations.
The Bridge That Carries the Road, Lynn Davies; The True Names
of Birds, Susan Goyette.
Art
Glenn
Priestley Cover: Erin, 1998.
15 x 11", Oil on canvas. Collection of the artist
Autumn 1999 Issue No. 201
The Newfoundland Fiddlehead 'on the
Rock'
Editorial Ross
Leckie
Fiction
Claire Wilkshire: Contribution
Lisa Moore: Craving
Libby Creelman: Boat Ride
Don Austin:
Lotty Amazona
Joan Clark: from Latitudes
of Melt: The Drook
Lillian Bouzane: The Whittler
Bernice Morgan: Cautionary
Tales
Kenneth J. Harvey: An Argument
With God
Poetry
Michael Crummey: Five Poems
Michael Winter: Three Poems
Barbara Nickel: Two Poems
Robin McGrath: Two Poems
Mary Dalton: Two Poems
John Steffler: Three Poems
Patrick Warner: Three Poems
Reviews
Bill Bauer: Powerfully Part
of the Present. Flesh and Blood and Hard Light, Michael Crummey
Lance Callahan: An
Abandoned Nation: The Strange Case of Joseph Smallwood and
Sheilagh Fielding. The
Colony of Unrequited Dreams, Wayne Johnston
Anne Compton: Seeing Things.
Before the Flood, Alan R. Wilson
Ian Colford: ...Piled Here
Like Kindling. Man of Bone, Alan Cumyn
Adam Dickinson: Headwaters.
Weighted Light, Allan Briesmaster; flowers in the empty house,
albert fuller; Ophelia After
Centuries of Trying, Merike Lugus
Ross Leckie : The Resources
of Poetry Waterglass, Jeffery Donaldson; All the God-Sized Fruit,
Shawna Lemay; Chess Pieces, David Solway
Art
Peter
Gross. Cover Ektachrome Photograph
Summer 1999 Issue No. 200
The All Fiction Fiddlehead
Introduction Norman
Ravvin
Fiction
Matt Cohen: from Elizabeth
and After
Steven Hayward: The Story
about the Mail
Kelly Cooper: Significant
Pauses
Janice Kulyk Keefer:
A Mean Streak
Craig Tapping: Music Lessons
Mary Rogal-Black: I Think
of You With Longing
Angus John Keays Fraser: The
Elvator Man
Cary Fagan: The Creech
Sisters
Rick Maddocks: The Blue
Line Bus
Carol Malyon: Daisy's Story
J. A. McCormack: Hearsay
Art
Glenn
Priestley. Cover: Ritz (1996). Oil on
board. 16 x 12½" Private Collection
Spring 1999 Issue No. 199
includes contest winners and
honourable mentions for last year's contest
Editorial Ross
Leckie
Fiction
Jane Finlayson: Two Times Soup - Fiction
Winner
Madeleine Thien: Four Days from Oregon*
Terence Young: Dead*
Larry Lynch: Learning to Swim
* * Honourable Mentions
Poetry
Marlene Cookshaw: Kouros - Poetry
Winner
Eric Miller: Eyes and Ice *
Anne Simpson: Salamander *
Rebecca Campbell: Homage
Allan Cooper: Two Poems
John Terpstra: Present Perfect
Ioana Ieronim: In the Street Outside
the Grocery
Tanya Kern: The Boundaries of Longing
Howard Wright: Three Poems
Christopher Levenson: Tafelmusik
Karin M. Weber: Two Poems
Peter Gillis: ashamed
Tony Steele: The Coming of Dionysus
William Meyer, Jr.: Three Poems
Ryan Knighton: Two Poems
Wendy Schrobilgen: Mojave Highway
Paul Vermeersch: Notes Toward A Lexicon
of the Language of the Bear
Aidan Rooney-Céspedes: Leaba
Cellan Jay: A Week Off
Audrey Poetker-Thiessen: Your body was
so heavy
Lori Maleea Acker: Two Poems
Tammy Armstrong: Two Poems
Beth Goobie: the other side
Jean McNeil: Self-Obituary
matt robinson: Two Poems
Susanna Roxman: Interior with a Kitchen-Maid
Alice Major: Two Poems
j.a. LoveGrove: Two Poems
G.P. Lainsbury: Act of Faith
Glen Downie: Baby Food for Thought
Stephen Hines: olives
Monty Reid: Previous Owners
Reviews
Tim Lilburn: Two Books About Love. Fugitive
Pieces, Anne Michaels Songs for Relinquishing
the Earth, Jan Zwicky
Bill Bauer: Long Ago and Far Away. The
Lion of Venice, Mark Frutkin
A. F. Moritz: Reconfiguring the Corpse.
Hearthedral, Phil Hall
Ross Leckie: Love's Semiosis. Sweet Ellipsis,
John Barton
Ross Leckie: A Major Composer in a Minor
Key. Houseboat on the Styx, A.F. Moritz
Art
Tom Smith Cover
Clay Sculpture. Extruded construction, Raku fired, smoked, white terra
sigillata with salt/copper splashes. Tallest piece: approx. 33" high Collection
of the artist.
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