Issue 47: Fall 2019 Has Arrived!

Dear Readers, Issue 47: Fall 2019 is here! It's finally time to cozy up and dive into our latest issue. So bundle up, settle in, and enjoy our latest offering of excellent fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, and reviews. This issue’s fiction features “My Mother Was a Girl Teen in the 1970s” by Grace Alvino, “Quilombo” by Georgina Beaty, “Miss Mango’s House” by Jaclyn Desforges, and “Beyond Repair” by M Lynx Qualey. In poetry, check out “The Remains of Earlier Temples” and “Anthesis in Two Places” by Tanis Franco, “Game Show” by Jane Eaton Hamilton, “Arrow” by Jake Byrne, “Odourless poem” by Khashayar Mohammadi, “Parallel Advances” by Trish Salah, “Interlude, a Relapse, Coming to Know” by Phoebe Wang, “Transactive Memory” by Shaun Robinson, and “Structure” by Caroline Szpak. In this season’s essay section, Erin Soros talks about violence, poetry, neighbours, and strangers in “Who Could Have Lived,” and francesca ekwuyasi discusses fear, shame, desire, and safety in “finding safety.” In the first interview of this issue Julija Kalvelytė interviews Dr. Dorisa Costello and the pair discuss the good, the bad, and the endlessly transformative creatures of the night. Then, read Maureen Scott Harris and Maureen Hynes’s interview with Barry Dempster, where they ask him about his life, his writing, and his discipline to write a poem a day. The interview also includes two of his poems: “Secret Dog” and “Isla Negra.” Finally, this issue’s reviews section features a review of Cherie Dimaline’s Empire of Wild by Tavleen Purewal, a review of Larissa Lai’s The Tiger Flu and Amber Dawn’s Sodom Road Exit by Emilie Kneifel, and a review of Domenica Martinello’s All Day I Dream About Sirens by Sonnet L'Abbé. We hope you enjoy our very latest. And don't forget that this Friday, November 29, is our annual Black Friday event where we announce the winners of the Thomas Morton Memorial Prize! Doors open at 8pm at The Monarch. Hope to see you there! All the best, The Editors