CNQ Issue #104
(Spring 2019)

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The Landscape

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

Illustrated Historical Atlas of the County of Ontario J.H. Beers & Co., 1877
A World of Songs: Selected Poems, 1894–1921 by L.M. Montgomery | University of Toronto Press
The Essential Douglas LePan selected by John Barton | Porcupine’s Quill
The Deserter by Douglas LePan Dundurn | Voyageur Classics

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

Poetry

Features

Oi! Eh? The bestselling voice of 1970s’ British skinhead youth by Ian Coutts
Conversations with Myself , The writing life’s irreplaceable satisfactions by Cynthia Holz
A Heart Set Adrift, Émile Nelligan and his translators by Michel Basilières
Embracing Everybody and Wrestling Trees, Walt Whitman turns two hundred by Bruce Whiteman
Go Forth and Multi-Panel Seth
In the Suds, The challenge, and perils, of translating kitchen slang by Pablo Strauss
No Country for Old Books: Reading “Canada Reads” by Brian Busby

First Reading

Voyeur de Bois: Rudy Wiebe’s The Temptations of Big Bear by Joshua Whitehead

The North Wing

The Antiquarium

Used and Rare

The Resistance: The underground movement aimed at ensuring books’ survival by David Mason

Fiction

CNQ Abroad

Beyond the Pale: In contemporary Belgrade, present and past collide by Marko Sijan

Reviews

André Alexis’ Days by Moonlight by André Forget
Brent Hayward’s Broken Sun, Broken Moon by Alex Good
Ian Williams’ Reproduction by Brett Josef Grubisic
Ariela Freedman’s A Joy to Be Hidden by Myra Bloom
Erin Moure’s The Elements and Cassidy McFadzean’s Drolleries by Andreae Callanan
John Miller’s Wild and Beautiful is the Night by Paige Cooper
Téa Mutonji’s Shut Up You’re Pretty by Dancy Mason

Exhumations

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