CNQ 106: Winter 2020

Contents

The Landscape

• Seth

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

• West by East and Other Poems by JEH MacDonald; drawings by Thoreau MacDonald | Ryerson Press, 1933
• Heroine by Gail Scott | Coach House Books
• Imagining Anne: LM Montgomery’s Island Scrapbooks by Elizabeth Epperly | Nimbus Press
• The Damned and Destroyed by Kenneth Orvis [Kenneth Lemieux] | Véhicule Press

Editorial

• A Call to Canadian Writers by Patricia Robertson

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

• Too Hot for Tories? Mark Tushingham’s Hotter Than Hell by Brian Busby 

Poetry

• “Visiting the Rothschild Collection, Tring” by Madhur Anand
• “Letting Go” by Joanna Lilly
• “Native Landscape” by Yuan Changming
• “Wild Fire” by Mahak Jain
• “Parable of the Flood” by Nicholas Bradley
• “Weaselhead Flats” by Lise Gaston
• “Akrotiri, Thera” by Roger Greenwald
• “Does the river need me, I wonder” by Catherine Owen
• “Fastenings” by Peter Anson

Features

• Writing the Real: Representing the climate crisis in fiction by Catherine Bush
• Stay with Mystery: Hiroshima Mon Amour, Melancholia, and the Truth of Extinction by JF Martel
• Describing the Days Ahead: A cli-fi primer by Andrew Forbes
• Eden in the End Times: A conversation with Damian Siqueiros by RM Vaughan
• Memorial for Our Commodified Giraffes by Jacky Sawatzky

The North Wing

• Al Purdy’s “Questions” by Seth 

Interviews

• Jennifer Ilse Black by Patricia Robertson
• Waubgeshig by Sharon English

CNQ Abroad

• How High the Water Rises by Erika Thorkelson

In Memorium

• Beloved Land by Roz Spafford

Used and Rare

• The Secret Memoir by David Mason

Fiction

• I’m Not as Pretty as I Look by Mary Lou Zeitoun

Memoir

• “Coming of Age and Narratives of Annihilation” by Sharon English

Reviews

• Lynn Coady’s Watching You Without Me by Alex Good
• Christian Guay-Poliquin’s The Weight of Snow by JC Sutcliffe
• Matthieu Simard’s The Country Will Bring Us No Peace by Michael Melgaard
• Anosh Irani’s Translated from the Gibberish: Seven Stories and One Half-Truth by Naben Ruthnum
• Leslie Vryenhoeck’s We All Will Be Received by Casey Plett
• Jess Taylor’s Just Pervs by Brett Josef Grubisic

Exhumations

• Oil for the World by Stephen Fowler