Issue 22
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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
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.… -
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 … -
George Elliott Clarke
Poetry Blurbs
The Witch of the Inner Wood: Collected Long Poems
by M. Travis Lane
Fredericton, NB: Goose Lane, 2016
378pp; $40.00Travis Lane keeps the Aristotelian tradition in poetry: To move from lyric poetry to longer verse-forms. Thus, she …
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Janet Nicol
Fiction Reviews
The Old World and Other Stories
by Cary Fagan.
Toronto, ON: House of Anansi, 2017
288 pp $19.95Inspired by discarded photographs from the past, prolific Toronto-based author Cary Fagan has crafted a remarkable collection of “snapshots,”—that …
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Anna Leszkiewicz
*Fiction Review
Like a Mule Bringing Ice-Cream to the Sun
by Sarah Ladipo Manyika
UK: Cassava Republic, 2016
118pp, £9.99Morayo Da Silva is a retired literature professor from Nigeria approaching her 75th birthday – “ancient” by her home …