Issue 40: Winter 2018 is here!

Dear Readers, On the cusp of spring, we are pleased to announce the launch of our 40th issue. The new issue includes excellent short stories from both sides of the Atlantic, from Lynn Crosbie's "Trying To Get Over" and Jowita Bydlowska's "Pat Pat Pat Pat Pat" to Kirsty Logan's "We Can Make Something Grow Between The Mushrooms And The Snow." Featured poet Ian Williams opens the poetry section with a suite of five poems and his work is joined by Hera Lindsay Bird's "I Am So In Love With You I Want To Lie Down In The Middle Of A Major Public Intersection And Cry," Zoe Imani Sharpe's "Radiators," two poems by Stevie Howell, Rachel Crummey's "Kamouraska," Domenica Martinello's "The Ideation Project," Noor al-Samarrai's "Tepco Beach," Bola Opaleke's "How We Murdered Sleep," and Emma Healey's "Voight-Kampff." Closing out the section are John Stintzi's "C^?O^?M^?M^?U^?N^?I^?T^?Y," jasper avery's "to transmute earth into honey," Manuhil Bandukwala's "From dadi's home," and Paola Ferrante's "Laws of Motion." In the essays section, Alex Quicho writes about neo-vampirism in "Young Blood," Brooke Clark looks at the aesthetic lineage of instagram poetry in "Rupi Kaur, Apotheosis of Contemporary Poetry," and Téa Mutonji explores complicated family relationships in "Un vrai bête en amour." The interviews section features a roundtable conducted by Trevor Corkum on contemporary Atlantic Canadian fiction, an conversation with Kirsty Logan, and discussion of new theatre by Maria Meindl and Djanet Sears. Reviewed in this issue are Canisia Lubrin's Voodoo Hypothesis, Guillaume Morissette's The Original Face, Sue Sinclair's Heaven's Thieves, and David Huebert's Peninsula Sinking.  We hope you enjoy our first issue of 2018!