Letter from the Editor. Darcie Friesen Hossack
Fiction. Edited by Sylvia Petter
The Last First Friday. by William Baker
Non-fiction. Edited by Olga Stein
Two Readings, Three Authors: On the Pleasures of Listening to Women Talking. by Olga Stein
Risking Life to Earn Crust. by Diary Marif
Literary Spotlight.
Poet Roy McFarlane Leads Us through Troubled Waters
Books and Reviews. edited by Geraldine Sinyuy
Kirstie Millar’s The Strange Egg. by Sue Burge
Eva Tihanyi’s Circle Tour. by Anne Sorbie
Everyone Talking. a review of books by Gordon Phinn
Books Referenced:
If Not for You & Other Stories, Niles Reddick (Big Table Publishing 2023)
Moon of the Crusted Snow, Waubgeshig Rice (ECW 2018)
Who by Fire, Matti Friedman (Penguin Random House 2022)
Inspiring Canadians, Mark Bulgutch (Douglas & MacIntyre 2022)
A Book of Days, Patti Smith (Knopf Canada, 2022)
Common Tones, Alan Licht, ed. (Blank Forms Editions 2021)
This Strange Invisible Air, Sharon Butala (Freehand Books 2021)
Unmask Alice, Rick Emerson (BenBella Books 2022)
A Lab of One’s Own, Rita Colwell (Simon & Shuster 2020)
Making History, Richard Cohen (Simon & Schuster, 2022)
Poetica Dystopia, Stephen Roxborough & Karl Blau (2022)
Report from The Betts Society/Report from The Reid Society
Report from The Ross Society/Report from The Brockwell Society/
Report from The Hall Society (above/ground press 2022)
Claudia Serea’s Self-Ironic Surrealism in Immigrant Sociopolitical Poetry.
a review by Diana Manole
Poetry. Edited by Clara Burghelea
4 poems by Mansour Noorbakhsh. WCLJ poet-in-residence
A Place Inside. a poem by Christopher Johnson
4 poems by Michael Lee Johnson
3 poems by James Croal Jackson
Mirage of Greatness. a poem by Gerald Seniuk
Floating Clouds. a poem by Bhoj Kumar Dhamala
I won’t give you pathos for flowers. by John Echem
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