CNQ Issue #106 (Winter 2020)
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Contents
The Landscape
- by 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 the 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 Rice by Sharon English
CNQ Abroad
- How High the Water Rises by Erika Thorkelson
In Memoriam
- 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