Volume XXX Number 1 – Spring 2020
Editors Crystal Mackenzie and Micheline Maylor
| Cover | Flora van Wageningen |
| Poetry | |
| George Elliott Clarke | Emmett Till (1941-1955): A Beginner’s ABC |
| Halle Gulbrandsen | Mitch, I’m Planted |
| Josephine LoRe | Forget Me Not |
| Jeff Donald | Quantum Communications with Xgirlfriend |
| Giovanna Riccio | Lipari Flyleaf |
| Angela Waldie | Minnewanka |
| Amy Leblanc | Well Women |
| Joan Shillington | Concussion |
| Skylar Kay | Has a Half-Known Name |
| Gina Hay | My Teeth Will Always Look Like This |
| Yuan Changming | Sonnet in Adverbials [of Purpose?] |
| T.L. Murphy | A Dream’s Dream |
| Taidgh Lynch | Father Browne’s Sea Voyage, 1912 |
| Jim Nason | Women All Over Her Body |
| Fiction | |
| Carmella Gray-Cosgrove | Nowadays and Lonelier |
| Joel Fishbane | My Brother’s Girl |
| Rebecca Morris | The Distance Between Points |
| Adam Gerber | Roadrunner |
| Essay | |
| Bruce Hunter | This is the Place I Come to in My Dreams |
| Reviews | |
| Sarah Butson | An Honest Woman by JoAnn McCaig |
| Vincent Potter | Arctic Smoke by Randy Nikkel Schroeder |
| Beth Everest | Common Brown House Moths by Laura Zacharin |
| Nikki Reimer | Pressure Cooker Love Bomb by Sharanpal Ruprai |
| Ryan Stromquist | Tiny Lights for Travellers by Naomi K. Lewis |
| John Wall Barger | Waterline Immersion by Conrad Scott |
| In Conversation | |
| Jamal Ali | Interview with Jenna Butler |
Patrick Lane |
March 26th, 1939 – March 7th, 2019 A tribute from colleagues, students, and friends. |
| Patrick Lane | Hummingbirds Om Otzi The Sea Is Our Home |
| Lorna Crozier | Almost A Children’s Story Parcel Watercolour |
| Susan Musgrave | Cookie Crumbs And Blood Whatever Gets In The Way |
| Susan Musgrave | What Is Living The Beginning Of Loneliness All That Is Ordinary There Is A Season |
| Heidi Garnett | A Letter For Patrick Lane Writing Your Life |
| Rosemary Griebel | Dear Patrick |
| Richard Harrison | Patrick Lane Tribute, Wordfest, October 17, 2019 |
| Micheline Maylor | Rabbits and Fuckers Rabbit |
| Liz McNally | Patrick May 2019 Stars From Patrick’s Too Spare, Too Fierce |
| Richard Osler | March – Arrival and Departure To Stay Alive |
| Barbara Pelman | Fifty One Kinds of Lichen |
| Melanie Siebert | Surely Dust Is Its Own Beauty |
| Seán Virgo | This Being Alive |
| Tom Wayman | Carrying Patrick Lane |
| Sheri-D Wilson | Memory Lane |