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The Winter Issue

Winter 2018. Vol. 40 No.3

This issue opens with a conversation between well-known Canadian poet and philosopher Jan Zwicky—author of several collections of poetry including Songs for Relinquishing the Earth (Brick Books), which won the Governor General’s Award—and Ben Ladouceur, whose first collection of poems, Otter (Coach House Books), received the 2016 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for best debut poetry (in addition to other notable mentions). This first interview underscores the second conversation you will find – Clarise Foster’s talk with Richard Osler. Poets in this issue include Anouk H. Henri, Celina Silva, Claire Caldwell, Mark Silverberg and many others.

Online content from this issue

  • House of Targ

    by Ben Ladouceur
    I wash my wrist with water lest my blue stamp of approval be the death of my bed’s high thread-count...

  • Three Ontological Studies: Feet

    by Jan Zwicky
    Which is worse, the body or the mind? Pressing, always straining to be somewhere else: the headlong weight of them....

  • Waterfall/Semantics

    by Jordan Mounteer
    If it ever took a life, it is unaccounted for. Stone tumbler. Giant’s breath. White death. A growl ripped in...

  • Dogs in the House

    by Shannon Quinn
    Did we bring it home with us? Could we have stopped that strange dog from slipping into her skin— whimper...

  • Map of the Kootenays, 4

    by Celina Silva
    here, i don’t need a map. i can tell my way from the curve of the street, palette of colors...

  • Landfill

    by Anouk H. Henri
    Smokestack candlestick Linden-handle check-wok Fleece rocket, cheese cricket Racket fleas, temple sock   Onion beggar, blood-bling Sling gum, trophy tongue...

  • Transmission from Jupiter

    by Claire Caldwell
    I made it. Five years puffed like a lung then collapsed. After so many kilometres, I thought Callisto would be...

  • Waiting Room

    Reviewed by Geoffrey Nilson
    In Waiting Room, the debut poetry collection from Jennifer Zilm, form is an expression of the moment. The poems declare...

  • An Interview with Richard Osler

    Interviewed by Clarise Foster
    Clarise Foster:InHyaena Seasonthe poems reflect a range of personal revelation and experience — your youth, relationships, family, your journeys to...

  • A Conversation with Ben Ladouceur

    Interviewed by Jan Zwicky
    In fall 2016, Ben Ladouceur, who is prose editor at Arc, interviewed Jan Zwicky as part of a feature on...