No. 113: Matters of the Heart (SOLD OUT)
No. 112: Travellers in a Strange Land
Inside this issue: We await the revolution with Patricia Robertson, avoid projectile party vomit with Mark Anthony Jarman, plunder the past with Carrie Snyder, explore imagery with Shoshanna Wingate, visit the museum at the end of the world with John Metcalf, and scan the heavens with Erling Friis-Baastad. Plus fiction by Mark Rogers, and poetry by M. Travis Lane, Patrick M. Pilarski, Susan Stenson, and Tom Wayman.
No. 111 I Think I Should Go Home
Inside this issue: We play 'what if' with Amy Jones; Nigel Beale examines criticism's darker side; Adrian Michael Kelly talks literary evangelism; Shannon Reynolds meditates on the death of Derek Weiler; Trevor Cole describes his first magazine love; fiction by Alison Pick, Lyse Champagne, Shaena Lambert, Ryan Turner, Ken Duffin, and Timothy Marsh; poetry by Michael Pacey, Jeff Latosik, William Knight, Laurelyn Whitt, Marsha Barber, Rolli, and Robyn Jeffrey.
No. 109 For Some Unknown Reason and Anyhow (SOLD OUT)
We're calling our Fall issue "Assorted Pedestrians" after a winning line from Cathy Stonehouse's story "Beryl Takes a Knife." It is, as the name implies, a mixed bag, but the best kind thereof--a pillowcase heavy with Hallowe'en loot, a family, a favourite shoe store. A few of our editors' predilections thus revealed, on to the delights in this edition of TNQ: the return of two of our occasional features (Falling in Love with Poetry and Word & Image) as well as the launch of a new one, Magazine as Muse. This issue is also home to a wide range of poetry and fiction, capped by Terry Griggs's "Joie de Viv". Finally, rounding out this rich issue is a pair of essays on the role of research and serendipity, of repression and sensation, in fuelling our impulse to tell stories and determining the kind of stories we tell.
No. 107 The Salon des Refuses (SOLD OUT)
No. 106 The Montreal Issue (SOLD OUT)
This issue tips the scale towards poetry with a return of our series on the seductions of verse, new poems by TNQ National Magazine Gold Medalists Steven Heighton and Alison Pick, a panel of poet critics discussing the role of the critic and the ways in which criticism and poetry inform one another, and an introduction to the work of two feisty young poets, Souvankham Thammavongsa and Madhur Anand. The issue also includes a brace of new fiction loosely around the theme of accidents and close calls and another of essays on writing by Douglas Glover, Patricia Robertson, Mike Barnes, and Tanis MacDonald.
In an earlier issue of TNQ, Canadian poet Robyn Sarah wrote about poets’ propensity for seeing, and hearing, double. They see instructions on the side of a matchbook—“Strike anywhere.”—and take it for an artist’s manifesto. They hear the phrase “the cost of living” and think, yes, living exacts a huge cost. They pick up a roll of masking tape and begin brooding on guilty secrets. The phrase “real estate” has always set up just such a resonance in me. What is it about a place of habitation that makes us real? that defines or confines us? that reveals our true selves or projects the selves we want to be? that makes us more or less than what we imagine?
No. 102: The Long and the Short of It
No. 101: The Artist as Activist (Sold Out)
No.100: An Occasion for Celebration
No. 99: To Laugh or Cry (SOLD OUT)
No. 96: Border Crossings and New Arrivals
No. 95: Painting, Plays, and Poetry
No. 94: Hockey Write in Canada
No. 93: The Writer Abroad
No. 92: Weddings & Other Disasters
No. 91: Writers of the Burning Rock - Sold Out!
No. 90: The Urban World of Russell Smith
No. 89: Uncommon Ground
No. 88: The Understander
No. 87: And Let the River Answer - Sold Out!
No. 86: Bad Men Who Love Jesus
No. 85: The Collector's Real
No. 84: Sweat & Serendipity - Sold Out!
