The Open Issue
Fall 2016. Vol. 39 No.2
This issue brings you a conversation with one of Canada’s most innovative, not to mention outspoken, poets, George Murray about writing, aging and Diversion, George’s most recent collection, as well as his stint as St. John’s Poet Laureate. And because this is the Open Issue there is, of course, lots of poetry of all shapes, sizes and inclinations. Not only will you find a selection of envelope-pushing new work by featured poet George Murray, but also a whole range of new writing from the poetic likes of Christophe Schinckus, Jessica Bebenek, Müesser Yeniay and David Cavanagh, to mention a few.
Online content from this issue
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by Christine Fellows
Listen to Christine Fellows read “Appleseeds” What better food than apple seeds — the fruit within the fruit — locked in like...
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by George Murray
You preach to your choir, I bitch to mine; our metastatic Zens combine to make liars of everyone eventually. ...
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by David Huebert
I will show you fear in a handful of dust. White dust of finger-bones, milled in flesh Pestles, and the...
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by Sarah Wolfson
An ad’s gone out in the village pages for Minor God of Incandescent Rages. Likewise sought is someone young...
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by Kim Fu
In their wedding photos, my mother resembles a doll of herself, painted and straw-thin in tablecloth lace, while my father...
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by Robert Currie
“Get a job,” he used to say when I was up till midnight, red-eyed, nervous, burnt out, cramming for first...
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by Anna Moore
I hope to retire in the village of heavy-headed children, the off-balance boys and girls who run with their faces...
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Reviewed by Annick MacAskill
Toronto poet Shirley Camia maps the immigrant experience through lyric minimalism and vivid imagery in her second collection, The Significance...
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Interviewed by Hannah Green
Hannah Green: What are you working on right now? Do you have another poetry collection slow-cooking in your head? George...