Editor: Fenn Stewart
3.37 (Winter 2019) offers new poetry by Tawahum Justin Bige, Peter Myers, and Divya Victor; an excerpt from Christina and Martha Baillie’s forthcoming Sister Language; “Blankets” by Félix Ruiz de la Orden, winner of our 8th Annual Robin Blaser Poetry contest; and, from the archives of TCR, a reprint of Colin Stuart’s work from a 1976 issue of this magazine;
A feature on Riisa Gundesen’s uncanny unselfies, paintings that “invite the abject in” — and invite the viewer into gorgeous and alarming domestic scenes — all rotten food, wrinkled sheets, and unconstrained bodies;
Text art by Hiba Abdallah, Lorna Brown, Kay Gordon, Kathy Slade, and Ron Terada, accompanied by Eric Schmaltz’s visual poetry, and an excerpt from Sean Braune’s theory of Word-Things;
Our own Mary Chen invites T’uy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss and Hiromi Goto on a “nature walk” in Maplewood Flats (North Vancouver, BC), where they encounter birds, hawthorns, rosehips, and a seal person, and consider the ethics of gathering foods and medicines in Indigenous territories;
Erín Moure and Vivek Shraya generously contribute their time and words to our new series of interviews celebrating the work of mentorship;
Two Vancouver writers, Leanne Dunic and Renee Rodin, offer essays in which they contemplate human, animal, and vegetable connections —“On Dandelions and Progressive Rock” and “On the Bus”;
And in see-to-see, our review section, Amber Dawn reads Vivek Shraya’s I’m Afraid of Men (also on the bus); Danielle LaFrance parses Aaron Vidaver’s compilation of the texts that make up Aaron Vidaver; Chimedum Ohaegbu reads Carrianne Leung’s short stories set in 1970s Scarborough; and Evan Mauro sits with Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life.
