Number 84 (Winter/Spring 2012)
Contents:
THE DUSTY BOOKCASE
A casual exploration of Canada’s suppressed, ignored, and forgotten literature
- The Abolishment of Death
by Brian Busby
POETRY
- Three Poems by Alex Boyd
FEATURES
- Introduction by K.D. Miller
- Faith and Literature by Philip Marchand
- Irving Layton and His Brother Jesus by Ken Sherman
- Growing Up Into Alice by K.D. Miller
- Against Domesticated Fiction, or the Need for
Re-Enchantment by Patricia Robertson - Flying Blind: Thoughts on Faith by Alex Boyd
- On Discovering Canlit: A Public Redress by Aaron Gilbreath
- Myths of Difference: Dionne Brand and the
2011 Griffin Prize by Tara Murphy - New Solitudes I: Douglas Coupland
by Alex Good
THE NORTH WING
Selections from the Lost Library of CanLit graphic novels
- Robertson Davies’ Fifth Business by John Martz
FICTION
- “Clams” by Shaena Lambert
USED & RARE
- Secrets of the Book Trade: Number 1
by David Mason
REVIEWS
- Modern Canadian Poets: An Anthology of Poems in
English edited by Todd Swift and Evan Jone
by Zachariah Wells - Emily Donaldson on The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje
- Michael Bryson on Better Living Through Plastic Explosives by Zsuzsi Gartner
- Kerry Clare on The Perfect Order of Things by David Gilmour
- Nathan Whitlock on The Antagonist by Lynn Coady
- Shane Neilson on Circus and New and Selected Poems by Michael Harris
- Mark Callanan on A Doctor Pedalled Her Bicycle Over the River Arno by Matt Rader
- Michel Basilières on The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
- Tina Northrup on The Id Kid by Linda Besner
- Steven W. Beattie on A World Elsewhere by Wayne Johnston
WORD OF MOUTH
- “Hidden Worthiness” An Appreciation of Alvin
Schwartz’s No Such Mirrors by Devon Code
CNQ COLLECTIONS
- On Writing The Reasonable Ogre
by Mike Barnes