Issue 44: Winter 2019

Fiction

Naquan

Around two a.m. I see him again, walking along the three-point line in those red J’s.

The Upper North

Coven Covets Boy

Earning Disapproval

Poetry

Two Poems

In my fever, I laboured. I did the work . of diagnostics and daily maintenance, of pretending / to be well.

Two Poems

Raven Takes Wing

For my friends, who save me

Ni l’un ni l’autre

SNOW COMING DOWN THE MOUNTAIN

Replacements

ON NOT HAVING A BABY

Two Poems

Two Poems

The Ring

love letters to joan of arc

The Arctic Tern

Essays

“Beti, Are You Married?”

I was trying to find chane ki daal, split-chickpeas, in the second aisle of my neighbourhood Indian-Pakistani grocery store when a woman with a basket full of frozen shami-kebabs approached me.

Butler and the Nature of Resistance

I’ve often wondered who decides what news makes it onto the digital ticker that runs along the bottom of the screens on subway platforms

There’s No Place Like Home?

The night of the 2016 presidential election, I clutch the neck of a beer bottle.
Interviews

“We Keep Writing”: A Collaborative Review of Dionne Brand’s The Blue Clerk

How to describe a book in discussion with itself, written in collaboration between the poet and herself?

“We will still be reading books”: Six Questions for Six Publishers

A few months ago, I attended a book festival in a corner of downtown Toronto that has become nearly cocooned by a glitter of skyscrapers.
Reviews

A Review of Almost Islands: Phyllis Webb and the Pursuit of the Unwritten

It’s already tattered, my copy of Almost Islands.

A Body Electric and Grieving: Tess Liem’s Obits

My memories of my dad from when I was growing up are of him renovating, remodelling, and rewiring the houses we lived in.