ISSUE 26
Fiction
Murderers, Whoremongers, Liars, and Worse by Robert Earle
Poetry
Palliative Care Reflective Portfolio by Jonathan Bennett
Two Poems by Kasia Juno
Three Poems by Chris Hutchinson
The Gift by Vincent Colistro
That Space between Blankets That Holds Your Scent by Julie Mannell
Three Poems by Marc Di Saverio
Faces by Matthew Vanstone
Zenovia by Jake Skakun
Three Poems, Translated from the Russian by Andrew Baruch Wachtel by Anzhelina Polonskaya
Essays
Echo Soundings: Notes for an Introduction to Essays on Poetry & Poetics by Jeffery Donaldson
Keep Building: Members Reflect on Toronto’s Literary Community by Jess Taylor
Interviews
Let Me Be a Waterfall: An Interview with Elise Partridge by Evan Jones
Lyricism and Invisibility: An Interview with Jonathan Bennett by Laura Rock
Stretching the Space of Realism: An Interview with Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer by Nicole Grimaldi
We Must Use, and Not Waste, This Power: An Interview with Nora Gold by Tracy Kyncl
I Aim to Work at the Level of Idea: An Interview with Pearl Pirie by Ryan Pratt
Reviews
A Roundtable Review: Three Frames on Chris Hutchinson’s Jonas in Frames by Jason Freure, E Martin Nolan, & Phoebe Wang
Life, Dangling: A Review of Miriam Toews’s All My Puny Sorrows by Andreas Vatiliotou
The Man Who Made Space Cool Again: A Review of Chris Hadfield’s An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Charles-Adam Foster-Simard
Commit to the Bit: A Review of Jon Paul Fiorentino’s I’m Not Scared of You or Anything (Illustrated by Maryanna Hardy) by Roxanna Bennett
SVPPLEMENT
Faces
Matthew Vanstone holds a BFA in Film Production from Ryerson University and a BA and MA in English Literature from the University of Toronto.
At the limit
Of friendship
That glory
Oscillates
Giving in
To antipathies
Only a monk
Would reason
Eyeless
Consider
The possibilities
Barking foam
To night’s wild
Imagination
Matthew Vanstone holds a BFA in Film Production from Ryerson University and a BA and MA in English Literature from the University of Toronto.



