CNQ 78 hits the printer today, and should be back in the next two to three weeks. A special issue partially guest-edited by David Hickey on the work of P.E.I. poet John Smith, the following is the Table of Contents:
NEVER MIND THE STREETS OF PARIS:
An Introduction to John Smith
David Hickey
SMITH: A SELECTIVE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
David Helwig
MUTUAL PLEASURE:
John Smith As Teacher
Richard Lemm
PEEING UNREPENTANTLY INTO INFINITY:
John Smith’s Fireflies in the Magnolia Grove
Zachariah Wells
BEYOND THE RIDGE OF EVERYTHING:
Selected Sonnets of John Smith
John Smith
ON THE POETRY OF JOHN SMITH, QUANTUM MECHANICS, AND MAMMOTHS
Matthew Tierney
GOOD SEEING
Alan R. Wilson
IN SEARCH OF A SACRED SPACE
Brent MacLaine
TWO POEMS
Steve McOrmond
OVER THE PRECIPICE
Ross Leckie
NUMBER ELEVEN TOUR
Jane Wells
IT NEEDS TO BE SAID . . . AGAIN
Nigel Beale
NORM SIBUM ON TAP
Evan Jones
REFLECTIONS ON SCOUTING
David Mason
MOLE: A Short Story
Terence Young
REVIEWS:
TESTIFY
Shane Neilson
BUT NOT YET
Michael Lista
NOTHING WORTH BEING GRAMMATICAL ABOUT:
The ‘Merely Concatenated and Ordinal’ Verses of A. F. Moritz
Asa Boxer
CANCON
Dan Rowe
HIGHBROW HARLEQUIN
Nathan Whitlock
Yea, Though I Read through an Ocean of Cheesy Sub-headings, I Will Fear No Evil
Adam Sol
THE GREEN WOMAN vs. A LITTLE SPOT OF GREASE
Catherine Owen
ARISTOTLE AMONG THE BARBARIANS
Patricia Robertson
[...] to be contributor to the new CNQ, where John Smith gets his (ba dah) due. A truly remarkable intellect whose sonnets demand and [...]