Volume 29.4

Winter 2005

MICHAEL WINTER – The Architects Are Here

Michael Winter of Canada has a recent novel, The Big Why, which was shortlisted for the Trillium Award and the Atlantic Book Prize. He also won last year’s CBC Literary Prize for a short story.

LUDWIG ZELLER – Eleven Poems

Ludwig Zeller of Chile has published a number of books, including Women in Dreams, Visions and Wounds, 50 Collages, Alphacollage: An Alphabet of Twenty-seven Letters, To Saw the Beloved in Half Only When Necessary, Totem Women, In the Country of the Antipodes, and Los engranajes del encantamiento (The Grears of Enchantment). The poems in this issue of Exile are a new series of translations, from Lagrimas en el ojo llameante (Tears in an Eye on Fire), and El embrujo de Mexico (The Spell of Mexico).

DAMIAN TARNOPOLSKY – Sleepy

Damian Tarnopolsky of Canada is publishing fiction for the first time.

MORDEN YOLLES – Graffiti

Morden Yolles (cover and colour section) of Canada is a structural engineer. His firm’s projects include: The Benvenuto Apartments, Toronto; Champlain College, Bata Library and The Reginald Faryon Bridge at Trent University; the Indo-Malayan and African Pavilions at the Metro Toronto Zoo; the World Financial Centre, Battery Park, New York; and Canary Wharf, London, England. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2003, and received a Toronto Arts Award in Architecture and Design in 1997. This is his first published sequence of photographs. The images were produced as giclée prints at Toronto Image Works.

CAROLYN SMART – Complications Janie

Carolyn Smart of Canada is the author of a memoir, At the End of the Day, and four volumes of poetry, most recently The Way to Come Home. This poem is part of a new manuscript of narrative poems entitled Hooked. She teaches Creative Writing at Queen’s University.

JAMES BACQUE – Our Fathers’ War

James Bacque of Canada is the best-selling author of Other Losses and Crimes and Mercies – both histories of the aftermath of World War Two in Europe. He has also written two novels, a book of short stories, two anthologies and a biography. He has been published in nine languages in eleven countries around the world. Crimes and Mercies will be reprinted by Exile Editions in 2006.

MARY MONTAGUE – A Work of the Imagination: A Poem in Seven Parts

Mary Montague of Ireland is a young poet, and author of a poetry collection, Black Wolf on a White Plain.

JON PAPERNICK – Who By Fire, Who By Blood

Jon Papernick of Canada is the author of the short story collection The Ascent of Eli Israel. His piece from this issue is excerpted from a recently completed novel entitled Who by Fire, Who by Blood. His fiction has appeared in Exile, The Reading Room, Night Train Magazine, Nerve.com, and the anthology Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction from the Edge. His short story, “An Unwelcome Guest,” will appear in 2006 in the anthology Scribblers on the Roof, and it has also been adapted for the stage.

A.F. MORITZ – Five Poems

A.F. Moritz of Canada, with Night Street Repairs, won the 2005 ReLit Award for poetry. His recent poems in journals have won the 2004 Bess Hokin Award of Poetry and the 2005 Elizabeth Matchett Stover Award from the Southwest Review. He is the translator of Ludwig Zeller in this issue.

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Autumn 2005

KATHLEEN MCCRACKEN – Eight Poems

Kathleen McCracken of Canada published a first book of poems, Reflections, in 1978. It was followed by Into Celebration, The Constancy of Objects and Blue Light, Bay and College (which was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry in 1992) and her most recent collection, A Geography of Souls. Mooncalves will be published by Exile Editions in 2007. She currently lives and works in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

EDWARD BROWN – Beer Bottles and Bowling Balls

Edward Brown of Canada is publishing for the first time; this story is part of a larger collection of linked stories he is currently working on.

JOHANNA SKIBSRUD – Four Poems

Johanna Skibsrud of Canada has previously published poetry in Pottersfield Portfolio, The Antigonish Review and Prism Inter-national, and last spring a short-fiction chapbook, The Electric Man, was released.

LISA FOAD – Violent Collections • Anxious Supplements

Lisa Foad of Canada is a young writer, performer, columnist/contributor to Xtra! Magazine, and one-third of the spoken word-based multi-media performance troupe, Trash & Ready. She is publishing fiction with Exile for the second time.

ULRIKKA S. GENRES – The Averted Moment

Ulrikka S. Gernes of Denmark is the author of ten collections of poetry. A Sudden Sky, a selection of her work in English was published in 2001. The Averted Moment is from her latest collection of poetry, An Evening with Ulrikka S. Gernes, published in 2005.
Dan Marmorstein (translator) is American by birth, and currently resides in Denmark where he is a translator and classical music composer.

ED PIEN – Strange Scenes & Imaginary Beings

Ed Pien (cover and colour section) of Taiwan, now lives in Canada. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, including the Drawing Center, New York; La Biennale de Montreal; W139, Amsterdam; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; Middlesbrough Art Gallery, the UK; Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City; the Contemporary Art Museum in Monterrey, Mexico; and the Goethe Institute, Berlin.

MARIANNE ACKERMAN – Matters of Hart

Marianne Ackerman of Canada is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter and journalist. In 2000 she published her first novel, Jump. A selection from her second novel, Matters of Hart, appears in this issue. www.marianneackerman.com

PRISCILA UPPAL – Seven Poems

Priscila Uppal of Canada has published four poetry collections with Exile Editions: How to Draw Blood from a Stone, Confessions of a Fertility Expert, Pretending to Die and Live Coverage. Her first novel, The Divine Economy of Salvation, received acclaim in Canada, the US, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Greece. She is a professor of Humanities and Coordinator of the Creative Writing Program at York University.

HUGH GRAHAM – Next to Last

Hugh Graham of Canada is a screenwriter and journalist and has published previously in Exile and in The New Quarterly. He wrote the screenplay for Palais Royale, and was story editor on the Sci-Fi thriller Cube. Graham has received Peabody and ACTRA awards for his radio comedy. He is presently a contributor to The Walrus Magazine and is the author of the play Where the Sun Don’t Shine, and Ploughing the Seas, an account of CIA operations during the Nicaraguan civil war.

Summer 2005

P.K. PAGE – Eatings

P.K. Page began publishing in the 1940s, when she was a member of Montreal¹s Preview Group. Her works of poetry include: The Glass Air; Hologram; and The Hidden Room: Collected Poems. Of note is her memoir, Brazilian Journal.

ROO BORSON – Two Prose Poems

Roo Borson of Canada is the author of nine books of poetry, among them: Landfall; Rain; A Sad Device; The Whole Night; Coming Home; Night Walk; Water Memory; and Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida, winner of the 2005 $50,000 Griffin Prize.

YEHUDA AMICHAI – The Day Martin Buber Was Buried

Yehuda Amichai of Israel was generally regarded as the national poet of that country and one of the world’s greatest living poets until his death in 2000. Two of his plays for radio in stage performances The Day Martin Buber Was Buried and To Love In Jerusalem have been presented recently in New York and Toronto, directed by Adam Seelig. Amichai was a contributing editor to Exile, from its founding in 1972, until 2000.

KRISTI-LY GREEN – Three Drawings and A Short Story

Kristi-Ly Green of Canada has published in several literary journals and is the author of a book of short stories, Nits. A story from that book recently appeared in ¿Dónde es aqui?, an anthology of short fiction from Canada, published in translation in Mexico, and another story appeared in Margaret Atwood Presents: Stories by Canada’s Best New Women Writers.

SANDY SHREVE – Five Poems

Sandy Shreve of Canada has published three poetry collections: The Speed of the Wheel Is Up to the Father; Bewildered Rituals; and Belonging. Recently, she co-edited (with Kate Braid) In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poetry. This autumn, she will publish Suddenly, So Much with Exile Editions.

NIGEL DICKSON – Omnium Gatherum #3

Nigel Dickson (photo section) of Canada has won numerous awards for his photography, including a Lifetime Achievement Award (A&DCC), and the most Gold Awards, in any visual category, for the National Magazine Awards in Canada, and a handful in the US. He has published in Toronto Life, Weekend, Chatelaine, Esquire, Fast Company, Saturday Night, Forbes, Business Week, Globe & Mail, Vogue, NY Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Time, Newsweek, Sunday Times (UK), and Weekend Telegraph (UK). He is currently working on his first major retrospective for the autumn of 2006.

EMMA ROBERTS – Apple

Emma Roberts of Canada is publishing fiction for the first time.

SEÁN VIRGO – Ciao, Father Time

Seán Virgo of Canada is the author of several works of fiction: Selakhi, a novel; White Lies and Other Fictions Plus Two; Through the Eyes of a Cat; Wormwood and Waking in Eden. He recently edited and introduced an edition of Charles G.D. Roberts’ Kindred of the Wild. He is completing a novel and collection of short stories.

JOHN REEVES – Oscar Peterson I & II

John Reeves (cover giclées) of Canada is outstanding among this country’s photographers. Collections of his portrait work include About Face, Exile’s Exiles and Incontro: Where Italy and Canada Meet.

Spring 2005

NICCOLÒ AMMANITI – December 9th

Niccolò Ammaniti of Italy has published the novels Branchie, Ti prendo e ti porto via, and Io non ho paura (I Am Not Scared, which was made into the film of the same name by Gabriele Salvatores), and a collection of stories Fango, from which Marco Risi made the film L’ultimo capodanno. This story will appear in the Spring in the United States in Italville, a collection of contemporary Italian fiction and poetry.

MICHAEL HETHERINGTON – The Archive Carpet

Michael Hetherington of Canada is the author of a collection of stories, The Late Night Caller, and his prose has appeared in several journals, including Blood & Aphorisms and The Malahat Review. He says that beginning in November, 1995, he wrote a fragment of fiction every day for 2,500 days, ending on Thanksgiving Sunday in October 2002. 600 selections from that “personal imaginative archive” have become the book, The Archive Carpet.

KEN BABSTOCK – Eight Poems

Ken Babstock of Canada is the author of Mean, winner of the Milton Acorn Award and the Atlantic Poetry Prize, and Days into Flatspin, shortlisted for the Winterset Award and winner of a K.M. Hunter Award. His poems have been translated into Dutch, German, and Serbo-Croatian, and have won Gold in Canada’s National Magazine Awards.

CAROL DAVID – Female

Carole David of Canada is a poet and a novelist. In 1999, La Maison d’Ophé-lie was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry. She won the Émile-Nelligan Award for Terroristes d’amour and the Estuaire des Terras-ses/Saint-Sulpice Award for Abandons. Guernica Editions published her novel Impala in 1997.

B.W. POWE – Two Poems

B.W. Powe of Canada is widely regarded as one of the original and unclassifiable authors in Canadian writing. He is the author of A Climate Charged, The Solitary Outlaw, A Tremendous Canada of Light, Outage, and Light On-words/Light Onwards.

GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE – Illuminated Voices

(With Photographs by Ricardo Scipio)

George Elliott Clarke of Canada is a poet from Africadia (African Nova Scotia). His books include Whylah Falls and Execution Poems, which won the Governor General’s Award for Poetry in 2001. Also the librettist for two operas (Beatrice Chancy and Québecite) Clarke has just become a novelist publishing George & Rue to fine reviews. He teaches at the University of Toronto.

LOUISE DUPRÉ – Voice Over

Louise Dupré of Canada is one of the most distinguished women of letters in Québec. Her most recent poetry collection is Une écharde sous ton ongle. She has also published art books, essays and two novels. She has received many prizes and awards and is a member of l’Académie des lettres du Québec et de la Société Royale du Canada.

FRANCE THÉORET – Girls Closed In

France Théoret of Canada is recognized as one of the important Québec feminist writers. Born in Montreal, she has published nine books, including a novel and a volume of essays. Guernica Editions published The Tangible Word in 1991.

LISA FOAD – Two Stories

Lisa Foad of Canada is a young Toronto writer and performer, who is publishing fiction in a literary journal for the first time. She is a columnist and contributor for Xtra! Magazine, and one-third of the spoken word-based multi-media performance troupe, Trash & Ready.

NICOLE BROSSARD – Picture Theory

Nicole Brossard of Canada has twice won the Governor General’s Award and the Grand Prix de la Poésie de la Fondation des Forges. She has published nineteen collections of poetry and eight novels. Museum of Bone and Water is the most recent collection of her work to appear in translation.

BARRY CALLAGHAN – Two Poems and a Letter from Leningrad

Barry Callaghan of Canada, the author of nine books of poems and stories, has also published a memoir, Barrelhouse Kings. The three pieces in this issue are from Raise You Five: Essays and Encounters 1964—2004, Volume One, appearing in the Spring of 2005.

ANNETTE KRAFT VAN ERMEL – Cover Paintings

Annette Kraft van Ermel (cover) of Canada has work in collections in Canada, New York, England and The Netherlands. Her work has appeared on magazine and book covers, in theatre productions, and various music videos; she also works in stained glass, photography and large-scale murals. (www.kraftvanermel.com)

RICARDO SCIPIO – Colour Section

Ricardo Scipio (photographs) of Canada was born in Trinidad and Tobago, but grew up in Toronto. He began his work with nudes in 1991, going on to have 14 gallery shows of his celebration of Black beauty–”Uzuri”–in Toronto, Miami, New Orleans, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. He briefly retired from photography in 1996 to pursue his filmmaking career, and in 1997 he wrote, directed and co-produced the feature film When, in New York. In 1998-99 he wrote, directed and produced his second New York feature film Watershed. The book, Illuminated Verses–his collaboration with George Elliott Clarke–is slated for publication in the autumn of 2005. (www.ricardoscipio.com)