Online Exclusives
Finding the Form with j tate barlow
The poem “Time Looks Like This” began at the beach with my very active grandson, on a frigid day. I believe I came home and started to write (after a nap!), the scenario still icy clear in my mind. That very day, behind the Leuty lifeguard station at the beach in Toronto. I love to […]
Finding the Form with Pamela Dillon
I rarely start with form unless I’m intentionally writing poetry; most other prose begins with a session of free writing. In the days when we were able to wander and sit in cafés I often spent a couple of mornings a week in a coffee shop journaling. I remember playing with the idea of a […]
Pamela Dillon’s Writing Space
I live in a village at the juncture of the Grand and Conestogo Rivers, situated on the historic indigenous lands of the Neutral, Anishinaabeg, and Haudenosaunee peoples. Outside my window the Grand River winds through what is now Mennonite farmland. I’m aware of my place as a settler, though that wasn’t always the case. This […]
What is Sue Chenette Reading?
A few weeks ago, when the Novel Coronavirus became, almost overnight, something more than death at a distance, when a collective shudder started through Toronto, and rice and toilet paper disappeared from grocery stores, I pulled Mikhail Bulgakov’s The White Guard from my book shelf. I’d first read it back in the ’90s. It’s set […]
Finding the Form with Anastasia McEwen
About a year ago, I received an unexpected visit from the parents of a girl I had taught in 2004. I invited them into my cramped hallway, thankful the dim lighting masked all the mitts and backpacks piled along the wall. They stomped the snow off their boots and smiled at each other with a […]
In Conversation with Ian Williams
Kim Davids Mandar is the editor of (In)Appropriate, a collection of interviews with Canadian authors forthcoming in Fall of 2020 from Gordon Hill Press. The interviews explore questions of difference, identity, and appropriation, engaging writers on the subject of how they represent an increasingly diverse and complex culture in ways that avoid falling into appropriation. […]
Rachel Rose’s Writing Space
You used to say that, having had three children, you could write anywhere. You wrote best in cars, while one child or another was off doing something or other, or in office waiting rooms, as long as the music wasn’t too loud. If it was, you retreated to your car. You could take any confined […]
What (and Where) is Sivan Slapak Reading?
A couple of weeks ago, which feels like an eon, my idea was to dedicate this post not only to what I’m currently reading, but when I read, which have become inextricably linked. Although life has changed drastically since then, as I emerge from a second weekend of self-isolation, it feels relevant. Shabbat—those twenty-five hours […]