The Malahat Review 180

Essential East Coast Writing

No. 180, Autumn 2012

Issue 180 Cover
Photograph by Freeman Patterson

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Introduction


John Barton,“The View from T/Here”

Poetry  


Tammy Armstrong, “Salt”
John Wall Barger, “Utøya”
Brian Bartlett, “A Reader at Thirteen”
Gerard Bierne, “Meditation #33: The Hour is Upon Us”
George Elliott Clarke, “Respecting Mrs. Henry Tucker”
Anne Compton, “Cab Ride, Paris,” “Footwork in Four Seasons,” ”Plovers”
Matt Cornfield, “All That Happens Before Winter”
Michael Crummey, “In Transit,” “The Selected,” “Albert,” “The Skeptics”
Mary Dalton, “Netted,” “Appliqué, “Invitation Cards”
Lynn Davies, “Moving Day,” “Nasturiums”
Jesse Patrick Ferguson, “Wish List”
Lorrie Neilsen Glenn, “And a tatted scarf, Sfakian black”
Sue Goyette, “The ocean is the orginal mood rig,” “fashion: for the crossing”
Warren Heiti, “Notes Toward a Poem of Great Village”
David Helwig, “Mischance”
Sean Howard, “Library Cards”
Claire Kelly, “Reading Alden Nowlan’s ‘Hens’ at the Laudromat,” “Wilde Paints the Parlour White”
M. Travis Lane, “Mentor Moon,” “Bird Count”
Carole Glasser Langille, “What I could have learned by the light of misfortune”
Ian LeTourneau, “A Different Focus”
Brent MacLaine, “Bestiary”
Carmelita McGrath, “With Apologies to the Little Dove”
Steve McOrmond, “They”
Michael Pacey, “Hawk and Handsaw”
Peter Sanger, “The Hangar”
Anne Simpson, “Sutra One,” “Sutra Two,” “Sutra Three”
John Steffler, “Cuneiform,” “Winter Quarters,” “The Sea Still Looks Welcoming”
Harry Thurston, “Still Life with Golden Bream”


Fiction


Kris Bertin, “Your #1 Killer & Extra Hands”
Lisa Moore, “Guard of What”
Kerry-Lee Powell, “The Prince of Chang”


Interview


Anita Lahey, Nothing Too Small to Say: In Conversation with M. Travis Lane


Creative Nonfiction


Sandra Djwa, “P. K. Page’s Apprenticeship in Saint John, 1935–41”
Chris Donahoe, “Test”
Robert Finley, “The Approaches”
Shane Neilson, “The Entirely Beautiful”


Reviews           


Poetry
Sue Goyette, Outskirts (London: Brick, 2011). Paperbound, 88 pp., $19.
E. Alex Pierce, Vox Humana (London: Brick, 2011). Paperbound, 76 pp., $19.
(Reviewed by Jane Munro)

Robin Durnford, A Lovely Gutting (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s, 2012). Paperbound, 88 pp., $16.95.
Monica Kidd, Handfuls of Bone (Kentville: Gaspereau, 2012). Paperbound, 80 pp., $19.95.
(Reviewed by Susan Walker)

John Wall Barger, Hummingbird (Kingsville: Palimsest, 2012). Paperbound, 80 pp., $18.
Peter Sanger, John Stoke’s Horse (Kentville: Gaspereau, 2012). Paperbound, 128 pp., $21.95.
(Reviewed by. David Godkin)


Fiction  
Kate Story, Wrecked Upon This Shore (St. John’s: Killick, 2011). Paperbound, 198 pp., $19.95.
(Reviewed by Rachel Rose)

Riel Nason, The Town That Died (Fredericton: Goose Lane, 2011). Paperbound, 280 pp., $19.95.
(Reviewed by Donna Kane)

Russell Wangersky, Whirl Away (Markham: Thomas Allen, 2012). Paperbound, 240 pp., $23.95.
(Reviewed by Jamie Dopp)


Creative Nonfiction
David Adams Richards, Facing the Hunter (Toronto:Doubleday, 2011. Hardbound, 216 pp., $29.95
(Reviewed by David Leach)

Don McKay, The Shell of the Tortoise (Kentville:Gaspereau, 2012). Paperbound, 160 pp., $25.95.
(Reviewed by Theresa Kishkan)


Cover           

Freeman Patterson                    
October Pond #3 (near Juniper, New Brunswick)
October 2004
Colour transparency film scanned for digital
Collection of the Artist



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