Canadian Literature's Issue 214 (Autumn 2012) is now available. The issue features articles by Germaine Warkentin, Susan Gingell, Deanna Reder, Allison Hargreaves, Daniel Heath Justice, Kristina Fagan Bidwell, Jo-Ann Episkenew, Andrea King, Joanne Leow, and Ana María Fraile, and new Canadian poetry & book reviews.
Congratulations to Susan Fisher for winning the 2012 Canada Prize in the Humanities, English-language category. Susan was an Associate Editor editor at Canadian Literature for issues #172 - #177, and was Acting Editor for issues #178 and #179.
Reviewed by Stuart Sillars
The opening item in Mark Macdonald’s collection, headed "Contents," is a series of short paragraphs each sketching an item suggesting the person whose identities it has shaped and whose life it records and distorts. This sparse, garage-sale suggestive-ness conveys with an immediate yet imprecise force the displaced world that the volume generates, along axes of both character and narrative. Sometimes, objects dominate lives: the central figure in "Walls" becomes obsessed with protecting […more…]