The Fall Issue
Fall 2014. Vol. 37 No.2
In this issue critical author and poet Jason Guriel converses with iconic Canadian (and American) poet Molly Peacock about her emigration from the U.S. to Canada and the impact that experience has had on her as a writer and on her work. We also welcome the mercurial return of “Formally Speaking” by Maurice Mierau, who this time takes on a crop of recently published books on critical writing in Canada. We enjoy an engaging range of new poems from budding new talents like Michael Meahger, Mike Donaldson and Shannon Maguire, along with those by more familiar poets like Jan Conn and Michael V. Smith. Included are the winning poems from the 2014 2-Day Poem contest.
Online content from this issue
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by Molly Peacock
You, who saved me from hardening, let me not harden now but walk into the world, disarmed yet escorted...
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by Sarah de Leeuw
In my dream I am walking on the edge...
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by Barbara Baydala
I’m writing to let you know the microwave is working again. Not because anybody fixed it. No one here is...
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by Michael Meagher
At first it’s your hands, blistered, mat studs making soft flesh raw, your back, pulling, heaving, splintered, like working against...
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by Jan Conn
Battling here-or-there-fatigue in brilliant yellow darkness. The tiniest sounds of fracture — all eighths disappear from the Inch River. Tomorrow...
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by Michael V. Smith
Here in this narrow seat with a god’s eye view from the belly of unfathomable mechanics, 36 077 feet from...
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by Hari Malagayo Alluri
only one soldier on the porch, and only for a moment. Army is a visiting ferris wheel, he whispered. A...
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Reviewed by Carl Watts
Throughout numerous collections, chapbooks and anthology appearances, Russell Thornton has engaged with a loosely unified group of themes. Whether one...
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Reviewed by Katelyn Dykstra Dykerman
Before the internet, before pornography was available with the click of a button, before womens’ naked bodies popped up in...
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Reviewed by Quentin Mills-Fenn
The book is divided into three parts: Outside (chronicling her life on the streets), Inside (working indoors, which is safer...
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Interviewed by Jason Guriel
Jason Guriel: Do you read much contemporary poetry these days? Who are some of your favourite younger poets? Molly Peacock:...