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issue 4

Vancouver: Influence

 

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Issue four, "Vancouver: Influence" is 64 pages of poetry, interviews and original art, taking a look at the influences of the city of Vancouver.

This issue includes essays by Barbara Adler, Elizabeth Bachinsky, Wayde Compton, Brad Cran, Gillian Jerome, Larissa Lai, Garry Thomas Morse and Billeh Nickerson. Along with poems by Roy Miki, Nikki Reimer, Brendan McLeod, Lisa Slater, Antonette Rea, Leah Rae, Henry Doyle, Raoul Fernandes, Jordan Abel, George Bowering, Kevin Spenst, Ben Rawluk, Christine Leclerc and an interview with Daphne Marlatt.

Contents

Content

  • Reciprocal Being: Living, Thinking and Writing in Social Space

    by Larissa Lai

  • Vistigial

    by Roy Miki

  • A Replicant Responds

    by Nikki Reimer

  • Old Friends

    by Barbara Adler

  • Girl With Sweater at a Party

    by Brendan McLeod

  • Enough

    by Lisa Slater

  • Laid To Rest

    by Antonette Rea

  • Writing on Place

    by Gillian Jerome

  • 1210 Jervis Street

    by Leah Rae

  • The Downtown Eastside Alarm Clock

    by Henry Doyle

  • Ink on Paper

    by Brad Cran

  • Night School

    by Raoul Fernandes

  • Ten Thoughts

    by Billeh Nickerson

Content

 
  • McPoem(s)

    by Jordan Abel

  • A Prayer

    by George Bowering

  • GB and Me

    by Wayde Compton

  • (De)Cipher

    by Kevin Spenst

  • The Magpie Mind of George Bowering

    by Elizabeth Bachinsky

  • Pig's Gorge

    by Ben Rawluk

  • Braque-ish Waters: Daphne Marlatt's Vancouver Poems

    by Garry Thomas Morse

  • Your Disalienation and the Orange Goes Blue

    by Christine Leclerc

  • Terminal

    by Daphne Marlatt

Interview

An interview with Daphne Marlatt
Conducted by Daniel Zomparelli

Reviews

  • [sic] by Nikki Reimer

    reviewed by Kathy Friedman

  • Discovery Passages by Garry Thomas Morse

    reviewed by Josh Neely

  • Origami Dove by Susan Musgrave

    reviewed by Angela Long

  • The Inquisition Yours by Jen Currin

    reviewed by Angela Hibbs

Featured Artist

Vancouver: Influence

 

Issue four is now available in bookstores across Canada, get it now by subscribing. Issue three is 64 pages of poems, interviews and original art. Featuring essays from Barbara Adler, Elizabeth Bachinsky, Wayde Compton, Brad Cran, Gillian Jerome, Larissa Lai, Garry Thomas Morse and Billeh Nickerson.

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