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No. 231 Summer 2025

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Issue 231 cover art by James Nizam

Contents:

Cover
  • James Nizam
    Terra Solis, 2024
    Photograph
    Collection of the Artist

Winners:
2025
Long Poem Prize

  • Monica Kim, "Hold a Memory"
  • Hamish Ballantyne, "Boomtimes"
Poetry
  • Gbolahan Badmus, "Mississauga, 2024"
  • Rosebud Ben-Oni, "21Sc :: Seriously Sonic & Superconductin'"
  • Kate Reider Collins, "Are we there yet?"
  • Kevin Irie, "Post-War Photo: A Funeral in the Rockies"
  • Daniel Good, "Science Fiction"
  • Veronika Gorlova, "Traitor" and "Following the lodestar"

Fiction
  • Katherine J Barrett, "Half"
  • Courtney Bill, "Dog Eat Dog"
  • Jaime Forsythe, "The Yellow Zone"
  • C. White, "Pay Her"

Creative Nonfiction
  • Meghan Fandrich, "Ashes"
  • Jillian Stirk, "Film of Memory"
  • Moez Surani, "The Ghost: The Ride of Volodya Putin"

Reviews
  • Poetry

  • Oana Avasilichioaei, Chambersonic
    (Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2024)
    (Reviewed by Joseph (J) Shea-Carter)

    Alice Burdock, Ox Lost, Snow Deep
    (Vancouver: Anvil, 2024)
    (Reviewed by Jessie Krahn)

    Clare Goulet, Graphis scripta / writing lichen
    (Kentville: Gaspereau, 2024)
    (Reviewed by Dominique Béchard)

    Fiction

  • Terry Watada, Hiroshima Bomb Money
    (Edmonton: NeWest, 2024)
    (Reviewed by Deborah Vail)

  • Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, The Creation of Half-Broken People
    (Toronto: House of Anansi, 2025)
    (Reviewed by Cid V. Brunet)

  • Nonfiction

  • Paul db Watkins, Soundin' Canaan: Black Canadian Poetry, Music, and Citizenship
    (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier, 2025)
    (Reviewed by Jake Kennedy)

  • Sarah Cox, Signs of Life: Field Notes from the Frontlines of Extinction
    (Fredericton: Goose Lane, 2024)
    (Reviewed by Richard Pickard)

  • Mentionables

  • Guy Delisle, Muybridge
    (Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2025)

  • Anne Fleming, Curiosities
    (Toronto: Penguin, 2024)

  • Karin Wells, Women Who Woke Up the Law: Inside the Cases that Changed Women's Rights in Canada
    (Toronto: Second Story, 2025)

  • Aislinn Hunter, ed., Best Canadian Poetry 2025,
    series ed. Anita Lahey
    (Windsor: Biblioasis, 2024)

  • (All reviewed by Book Reviews Editor Jay Ruzesky)

Contributor Notes
    coming soon