Inside Issue 103: Natural Histories
Natural history has been, historically, the province of amateurs, people with a keen interest and a critical eye. Based more on observation than experimentation, it is the study of plants and animals in their environments. According to biologist Stephen Herman, it "stresses identification, life history, distribution, abundance, and inter-relationships [and] often and appropriately includes an esthetic component." Inside Issue 103 you will find a complex and fascinating interweaving of essays, poems, and stories that reflect on these themes with style.The List Goes On
In Issue 100, we featured our Readers' Choice of Most Loved Living Canadian Writers. Many of these writers sent us new work to include in this issue, but we could not fit it all in? there, after all, no fewer than fifty-six writers on the list?so you will find a suite of plays here from the Newfoundland contingent.
Michael Crummey: Why Can't you Play by the Rules For Once
Lisa Moore: Healing Circle
Edward Riche: A Spot of Trouble
Michael Winter: Trying to Be Good
Introducing Kathleen Winter: The 2006 Metcalf-Rooke Award Winner
Tiffany Johnstone: The Small Moving Things of the World: An Interview with Kathleen Winter
Kathleen Winter: You Can Keep One Thing
Malcolm in Blue
Binocular
Natural Histories
Isabel Huggan: Rivertime (reflections on rivers and writing)
Small Fish
Heron Departing
Barbara Carter: Wading in with Isabel Huggan (An Interview)
Mike Barnes: Vaster Than Empires: Tales of the Tropane Alkaloids
Poetry
Jesse P. Ferguson: Riparian Zone
Barry Dempster: two poems
Elspeth Cameron: The Point of Change
Stephen Bett: Dysfunctional
Sarah Mian: Kerouac
Fiction
Nadine McInnis: Where All the Ladders Start
Fiona Foster: Wormwood
Essays on Writing
Susan Olding: Mama's Voices
Douglas Glover: The Attack of the Copula Spiders: Thoughts on Writing Well in a Post-Literate Age
Steven Heighton: The Riveted and the Reposing (Drawing)
Postscript
Colette Maitland: Testimonial
