Issue 21
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Candace Fertile
Poetry Review
Gold
by George Elliott Clarke,
Kentville, NS: Gaspereau Press, 2016
160 pages, $21.95Blue (2001), Black (2006), and Red (2011), George Elliott Clarke’s previous “colouring books,” have now been joined by Gold. In his preface, Clarke says …
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Gerri Kimber
Fiction Review
The Shouting in the Dark
by Elleke Boehmer
Dingwall, Scotland: Sandstone Press, 2015
273pp, £8.99Set in the 1970s, when hardliner B. J. Vorster is Prime Minister of South Africa, Elleke Boehmer’s portrayal of a young girl growing …
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H. Nigel Thomas
Fiction Review
Fairfield: The LAST Sad Stories of G. Brandon Signet
by Robert Sandiford
DC Books, 2016
144pp, $18.95Fairfield: The Last Sad Stories of G. Brandon Sisnett is Robert Edson Sandiford’s third collection of short fiction. There are thirteen …
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Janet Nicol
Fiction Reviews
The Motorcyclist
by George Elliott Clarke.
Toronto, ON: HarperCollins, 2016
288 pp; $16.99George Elliott Clarke, an accomplished poet, playwright and essayist, turns his considerable talent to writing a novel offering a protagonist infrequently portrayed in Canadian literature. …
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Michael Melgaard
Fiction Reviews
The Hunter and the Wild Girl
by Pauline Holdstock
Fredericton, NB: Gooselane, 2015
333 pp, $32.95The Hunter and the Wild Girl has all the appearance of a fairy-tale. It is set in the French countryside in some …
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Miklos Legrady
Taking the Whip to Art Class
Amatoritsero Ede: You are currently working on a major project, ‘Whipping the Dead Horse of Painting.’ Can you tell us more about this project? What is the philosophical grounding behind it; Why do you think …
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Literary Images
Brampton, Toronto’s Inaugural Festival of Literary Diversity, FOLD © Herman Custodio/the FOLD
University of Bremen, Germany.
Dr. Amatoritsero Ede was the University of Bremen’s Institute for Postcolonial and Transnational Studies’ (INPUTS’) Writer-in-Residence for 2016. He and his creative writing …
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Joshua Scribe Watkis
Love Me
Baby I want you to love me to pieces.
Love me with purest bliss into reckless abandon.
Love me until we are lost in the sea of our sheets, sinking deeper than the tombs of sinking Titanics.
I … -
Daniel Mark Patterson
Snowglobe: Apocalypse
I sometimes feel like a Penguin in a snow globe
after the snow has fallen…As if all the
beautiful parts of my life have already
happened…the memories as awkward
and elusive as the snowflakes which
slipped through my … -
Donna Ogunnaike
What do You Wear?
I wear Gucci and Zannotti
Bought from lands far and exotic
A million Naira worth of weave-on
With heels that can pay the bills
I wear my outdoor designer outfits
Though my heart is filled with …
