Number 111

CNQ Issue #111 (Spring/Summer 2022)

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Contents

The Landscape

• by Seth

What’s Old | Notable CanLit reissues and offerings from the country’s antiquarian booksellers

• A State of the Expedition from Canada by Lieut-General John Burgoyne | Printed in London, 1780
• A Journal of the Voyages and Travels in the Interior of America by Daniel Harmon | Printed in Andover, 1820
• The Essential John Glassco selected by Carmine Starnino | Porcupine’s Quill
• No Crystal Stair by Mairuth Sarsfield | Linda Leith Publishing
• The Tangled Miracle by Bertram Booker | Invisible Publishing

The Dusty Bookcase | A casual exploration of Canada’s suppressed, ignored, and forgotten literature

• A Sop For Boredom: Joan Suter’s East of Temple Bar by Brian Busby

Poetry

• “An Evening at the Climate Change Planning Meeting” by sophie anne edwards
• “Human Dissection Lab” by Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin

Features

• Lizard Rain: Curious Canadian historical weather events by Barry Baldwin
• Every Saturday: A poet finds poetry in his father’s shrinking world by Robert Colman
• The Ear at the Door: On Clark Blaise’s short fiction by Margaret Atwood
• Translating Memory: T’es icitte là: A dream of language by Dominik Parisien
• What We Miss in the Dish with One Spoon: The power of metaphor in the wampum covenants, and how it got lost by Jeffery Donaldson
• New Islands: An Alistair MacLeod story set in Cape Breton is brought to life in Scotland by Tom Halford
• Write, Print, Fold, and Staple: On poetry chapbooks by Jim Johnstone
• Taking the Current When It Serves: Captain John Wentworth Dakin and the advent of the steamship era by Robin MacKay
• The Disembowelling of Phantoms: Wrestling with William Hoffer’s ghost by Marius Kociejowski

Interviews

• Interview with Dimitri Nasrallah by Jean Marc Ah-Sen 
• Interview with Céline Huyghbaert by Megan Durnford

Used and Rare

• Spring Is Here by  David Mason

The North Wing

• Shyam Selvadurai’s Cinnamon Gardens by Sindu Sivayogam

Fiction

• “Flodden’s Farm Camp for Christian Youth” by Alice Petersen

Independent Top 20

Reviews

• Jaspreet Singh’s Face by Jeff Bursey
• Hal Niedzviecki’s The Lost Expert by Alex Good
• Andrea A Davis’ Horizon, Sea, Sound by Elaine Coburn
• Martha Schabas’ My Face in the Light by Brett Josef Grubisic
• Alexander MacLeod’s Animal People by Kate Kennedy
• Mike Steeves’ Bystander by Sadie Graham

Exhumations

• Marshmallow Magic by Stephen Fowler