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ISSUE 27

  • Angela Sorby

    Angela Sorby

    The Heist

    Transportation’s tough,
    if you want to be transported:

    the blockbuster museum’s hush
    is uniform, like sand. 

    Adjust the audio tour,
    and behind the curtain

    of information hiss
    streams of static—

    what’s art but marked
    exits, the urge to … Read the whole text

  • Helen Walsh

    Helen Walsh

     

    The Screen, the Literary Stage, and the Boardroom  

    (Scholar-Poet, Amatoritsero Ede, in conversation with Helen Walsh, Novelist and Literary Activist) 

    Amatoritsero Ede: It is great to finally have this conversation with you. I would like to begin at … Read the whole text

  • Giovanna Riccio

    Giovanna Riccio

    Fiction Review

    The Artist and the Assassin
    by Mark Frutkin
    Erin, ON: Porcupine’s Quill, 2021
    213 pp. $19.95

    The Wordsmith and the Half-Fallen Angel

    In The Artist and the Assassin, Mark Frutkin has penned a page turner of lyrical imagination … Read the whole text

  • Mark Frutkin

    Mark Frutkin

    Poetry Review 

    J’Accuse . . . ! (Poem Versus Silence)
    by George Elliott Clarke,
    Exile Editions,
    198 pages, $26.95

    Some poetry whispers. Some poetry shouts. This collection of poetry shouts out loud, with great creative skill. And it shouts for … Read the whole text

  • A. F. Moritz

    A. F. Moritz

     

    Poetry Review 

     Canticles II (MMXIX)
    by George Elliott Clarke
    Guernica Editions,
    2019. 505 pp.
    ISBN 978-1-77183-409-4
     
    In a 2022 text, George Elliott Clarke calls his Canticles series “an expected six-volume epic…that begins with the survey of two … Read the whole text

  • Lisa Lahey

    Lisa Lahey

     

    Sorrow’s Bargain 

    Mama grabbed Petra by the arm, twisting it. I heard a crack and Petra screamed. She held her forearm and sobbed and sobbed. Petra had pulled on Mama’s apron too long, crying for food.

    “Byc cicho Petra! … Read the whole text

  • Richard-Yves Sitoski

    Richard-Yves Sitoski

     

    Canadian Raising

    My father’s father came
    with songs in seven tongues
    and no-one to sing them to.

    His Polish elbowed German, Dutch
    and Yiddish to hear a flat vernacular
    push liver pills on sidewalks,

    while his children learned his … Read the whole text

  • Yuan Changming

    Yuan Changming

     

    Vs/&: Two Free Haiku

    1/ Bird vs Wind

    The bird strives to catch
    The wind, but it is so strong
    It traps the bird instead

    2/ The Cosmos & My World

    Just as our cosmos is, supposedly, where
    Light … Read the whole text

  • Pauline Peters

    Pauline Peters

    Communion

    Darkness weighs
    about seventeen kilograms per unit.
    It tastes like salt and iron.
    I have held it and tasted it.
    Believe me.

    The feel of darkness varies.
    Some days it has the consistency
    of cold molasses,
    other days the … Read the whole text

  • Jena Webb

    Jena Webb

     

    The Witness Tree

    The moment I credit with becoming a cynic happened on the day the city came to take down our treehouse without warning. Perhaps 13, I was alone in the house fretting over the tissue paper I … Read the whole text

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