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In This Issue

Bert Bailey
Gwenaël Bélanger
Tony Burgess
John Calabro
Prosenjit Dey Chaudhury
Loh El
George Elliott Clarke
Claudia Del Balso
Amatoritsero Ede
Candace Fertile
Salim Gold
Spencer Gordon
Angela Hickman
Patrick Iberi
Tade Ipadeola
Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
Matthew R. Loney
John W.MacDonald
AndrewMacDonald
robmclennan
Bruce Narbaitz
Uche Nduka
E. Martin Nolan
Moses Ebe Ochonu
Sean O'Gorman
Celeste Parr
Justin Pfefferle
Rikki Wemega-Kwawu
Stuart Ross
Sonia Saikaley
Amanda Tripp
Jackie Wong
Catriona Wright

The Ottawa Scene

South Bank London

Quattro Books

Quattro Books, established in 2006 by John Calabro, Beatriz Hausner, Allan Briesmaster and Luciano Iacobolli, publishes new and established authors whose work has outstanding literary merit. We aim to fulfill the vision that Canada is extremely diverse and the literature it produces, regardless of its style, or the context that informs it, should be for all. Rather than favouring one specific ethnic, regional, or aesthetic voice, we promote literary border crossing and cross-pollination. We place special emphasis on the novella, a genre with strong roots in European and Latin American literature but not issued by many Canadian trade publishers. Our other main focus is poetry: where we favour innovative writing that departs from conventional realism. Since our first publishing season in 2007, we have published over 50 titles, including two Art Books under our imprint Fourfront Editions. We continue to translate, publish and promote the literary novella in the English language and as such we hope to publish at least a dozen novellas a year.

Who we are

MTLS is a quarterly journal with 90% Canadian content. It is mainly an online journal.


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Poetry

Crusade

Salim Gold

One lover’s lips spill into another’s;
Our two combined thighs bandy up and down;
One flesh confronts and conforms to the next—
Until we’re shouting, organ by organ.
When I breach your castle’s molten marble,
I please you by seizing every treasure;

Night Swim

Céleste Parr

A large condo with high ceilings and a wall of windows. Spacious, elegant, minimalist. A sparkling late-night skyline. Upstage is a King-sized bed with the mattress leaning halfway off, touching the hardwood floor. A large piece of white fabric is tangled between the bare mattress and the bare box spring. Downstage right is a plush, microsuede sofa and ottoman. Near it, a liquor cabinet and a variety of glasses, flutes, tumblers.

Sybill

Bert Bailey

"All of Toronto seemed to have shown up for that awful production!" Phil complained.

"It wasn't so dreadful, was it?" someone asked.

Sybill's eyes lit up, and she almost rose out of her seat to add:

"Yes, and didn't Millie say she saw Christopher Plummer in the lobby?" Everyone turned to her end of the table. This was the first thing she had said since the three couples had arrived from a nearby theatre.

Quote

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

- Paul Gauguin.

Gwenaël Bélanger

Art

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Thank You

Volunteers for Issue 10

For copy-editing this issue of MTLS thanks:

- Lequanne Collins-Bacchus

- Amanda Tripp

- Claudia Del Balso

Acknowledgement

MTLS is grateful to Jetioluwa Olafimihan (Cotta Red Creative Studio) for her hard work on web development and management.

Dedication

To the memory of Stephen Potts