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2025

Editorial

Canadian Literature 8.0 (pp. 7-11)
Mary Chapman

Articles

We Are Full of (Literary) Things: Thingful Fabrication, Narrative Embalming, and Little Blue Encyclopedia (For Vivian) (pp. 12-33)
Alex Prong

The Mad, Queer Time and Space of bill bissett’s lunarian Narratives (pp. 34-56)
Drew McEwan

Meeting on the Shoals: Survivance in Kiss of the Fur Queen and Soucouyant (pp. 57-78)
Joey Mauro

“Talking to” and Creating Coresistances with Diasporas in Lee Maracle’s Talking to the Diaspora (pp. 79-102)
Christine Campana

“The Spirits Write the Story”: Smaro Kamboureli in Conversation with Norma Dunning (pp. 103-125)
Smaro Kamboureli and Norma Dunning

Poems

Unchosen Art (pp. 178-179)
Calvin White
How it Happened (pp. 180-181)
Kathleen McHale
Through Leaves of Grass (pp. 182)
Cyril Dabydeen
Guidelines for Fostering Butterflies (pp. 183-184)
kerry rawlinson
Might As Well (pp. 185-186)
Noelle Brody
Haikus for Loss (pp. 187-188)
Amber McMillan
Another Poem That Wants to Have Something to Do with History, Sex, Death, and Art, but Nothing to Do with Me, or so I Thought (pp. 189-191)
Chris Hutchinson
a study on the family dynamics of ontario wildlife (pp. 192-194)
Izzy Le Fay

Opinions & Notes

It Matters Who You Believe, and Why: A Reply to Sara Minogue (pp. 126-135)
Julie Rak

Book Reviews

“Bewilderment and Wonder”: Review of All New Animal Acts: Essays, Stretchers, Poems by Don McKay (pp. 136-144)
Nicholas Bradley

Book(s) Reviewed

  • All New Animal Acts: Essays, Stretchers, Poems by Don McKay

“Finding Something”: Review of Finding Nothing: The VanGardes, 1959-1975 by Gregory Betts (pp. 145-153)
Scott Inniss

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Finding Nothing: The Vangardes, 1959-1975 by Gregory Betts

“Meditations on Mortality”: Review of quiet night think: poems and essays by Gillian Sze, Fugue with Bedbug: Poems by Anne-Marie Turza, and On Her Own Terms: Poems about Memory Loss and Living Life to the Fullest by Carolyn Gammon (pp. 154-158)
Shoshannah Ganz

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Quiet Night Think by Gillian Sze
  • On Her Own Terms: Poems about Memory Loss and Living Life to the Fullest by Carolyn Gammon
  • Fugue with Bedbug by Anne-Marie Turza

Review of Temerity & Gall by John Metcalf (pp. 159-161)
Paul Barrett

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Temerity & Gall by John Metcalf

Review of Mordecai Richler’s Imperfect Search for Moral Values by Shana Rosenblatt Mauer (pp. 162-163)
Ruth Panofsky

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mordecai Richler's Imperfect Search for Moral Values by Shana Rosenblatt Mauer

Review of Bronwen Wallace: Essays on Her Works by Wanda Campbell, ed. (pp. 164-165)
Erin Wunker

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Bronwen Wallace: Essays on Her Works by Wanda Campbell

Review of Lives Lived, Lives Imagined: Landscapes of Resilience in the Works of Miriam Toews by Sabrina Reed (pp. 165-166)
Vange Holtz Schramek

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Lives Lived, Lives Imagined: Landscapes of Resilience in the Works of Miriam Toews by Sabrina Reed

Review of The Vernacular Strain in Newfoundland Poetry: The 2020 Pratt Lecture by Mary Dalton; Reading Wide and Deep: The Canadian Long Poem by Ken Norris and Bruce Whiteman; and Reading Mennonite Writing: A Study in Minor Transnationalism by Robert Zacharias (pp. 167-169)
Michael Minor

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Reading Mennonite Writing: A Study in Minor Transnationalism by Robert Zacharias
  • Reading Wide and Deep: The Canadian Long Poem by Ken Norris and Bruce Whiteman
  • The Vernacular Strain in Newfoundland Poetry: The 2020 Pratt Lecture by Mary Dalton

Review of Of Sunken Islands and Pestilence: Restoring the Voice of Edward Taylor Fletcher to Nineteenth-Century Canadian Literature by James Gifford, ed. (pp. 170-171)
Carole Gerson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Of Sunken Islands and Pestilence: Restoring the Voice of Edward Taylor Fletcher to Nineteenth-Century Canadian Literature by James Gifford

Review of Between Empire and Republic: America in the Colonial Canadian Imagination by Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy (pp. 171-173)
Taylor Breckles

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Between Empire and Republic: America in the Colonial Canadian Imagination by Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy

Review of Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U. S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies by Molly P. Rozum (pp. 173-175)
Robert Thacker

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U. S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies by Molly P. Rozum

Review of Mass Capture: Chinese Head Tax and the Making of Non-Citizens by Lily Cho (pp. 175-177)
Julia-Rose DiPalo

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mass Capture: Chinese Head Tax and the Making of Non-Citizens by Lily Cho