Issue 43: Fall 2018
Thomas Morton Prize: Fiction Winner
Thomas Morton Prize: Poetry Winner
Fiction
Poetry
Essays
Interviews
Reviews
Runner Up: Folderol
Daniel Scott Tysdal is a ReLit Award winning author of three books of poetry and the poetry textbook The Writing Moment: A Practical Guide to Creating Poems (Oxford University Press). His work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Poetry, Best Canadian Poetry, and The Next Wave: An Anthology of 21st Century Canadian Poetry, and has earned him a number of honours, including the Anne Szumigalski Poetry Award and honourable mention at the National Magazine Awards. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough.
A⇒ ⇐B
It’s fitting—this remedy’s alias sounds like a brand
of prescription drug. Chantix, Lunesta,
Concerta. Paxil, Prozac, Zoloft. Folderol: a treatment
tactile (pen, page, word) and vapoury (word, spirit,
vision). Write poem after flimsy poem. Guaranteed
to harvest the meaningless refrain of your
symptoms—husking flurries, plunging seeds—with the
sickle of each poem’s meaningless refrain. Helps stem
the outbreaks of trashitis, of treasurnoma’s coziness,
prescribed by the geegaw of being. Side effects may
include a stiff wrist, a trifling addiction, blinding
clouds of paper rising from the lines of fire you remit
to the fires lining you, tweaked neck, odd filenames.
If feelings of wildness and devastation persist,
A⇒ ⇐B
Author photo credit to Katie Fewster-Yan.
Daniel Scott Tysdal is a ReLit Award winning author of three books of poetry and the poetry textbook The Writing Moment: A Practical Guide to Creating Poems (Oxford University Press). His work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Poetry, Best Canadian Poetry, and The Next Wave: An Anthology of 21st Century Canadian Poetry, and has earned him a number of honours, including the Anne Szumigalski Poetry Award and honourable mention at the National Magazine Awards. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough.