Volume 32.4

Winter 2008

Nicholas Ruddock of Guelph, Ontario, has appered in Antigonish Review, Fiddlehead, Grain, sub-Terrain, Dalhousie Review, Prism International, Event, Exile: The Literary Quarterly, and was included in the 2007 Journey Prize Anthology.
Chekhov

Brian Brett is the author of ten books of poetry, fiction, and a memoir. Active in promoting Canadian literature and culture, he is a retired Chair of The Writers’ Union of Canada. His most recent book is Uproar’s Your Only Music, a poet’s memoir (Exile Editions, 2004). In 2009 his new memoir/natural history, Trauma Farm, will be released. He lives with his family on Salt Spring Island, B.C.
Last Report of the Lost Patrol

Lisa Foad is a Toronto-based writer who frequently teaches creative writing at George Brown College. Her work has appeared in Matrix Magazine and Exile: The Literary Quarterly, and was anthologized in Red Light: Superheroes, Sluts and Saints, and Geeks, Misfits and Outlaws. She is a regular contributor to the queer Toronto weekly Xtra! Magazine, and is a freelance contributor to NOW Magazine and Herizon.
Lost Dogs

Hayden Carruth (1922-2008) of Munnsville, NY, published over thirty volumes of poetry, essays, a novel and two anthologies. He received the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, $50,000 Lannon Literary Award, Harriet Monroe Award, Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, and the National Book Award For Poetry.
Three Songs

Janice Kulyk Keefer of Toronto has published The Paris-Napoli Express, Transfigurations, Travelling Ladies, Rest Harrow, White of the Lesser Angels, Marrying the Sea, Thieves, and a memoir, Honey and Ashes. Her recent book of poetry, Midnight Stroll (Exile Editions, 2006), is a 200-page collection, visually complemented by 20 colour plates and numerous B&W paintings, drawings and prints, as well as 35 photographs; her most recent novel, The Ladies Lending Library, was released shortly after.
Four Poems ~ 48

Christopher Adamson of Toronto has appeared twice in Exile The Literary Quarterly, and twice in Ontario Review (from which “A Hot Day in Paris” won the U.S. Cooper Memorial Prize for Short Fiction in 2006). He also published the novel The Road to Jewel Beach (Exile Editions, 2004).
Fire and Ice

Sharron Proulx-Turner is a member of the Métis Nation of Alberta. Her memoir, Where the Rivers Join – written under the pseudonym Beckylane – was short-listed for the Edna Staebler award for creative non-fiction, and her second book, what the auntys say, was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Prize for best first book of poetry.  she is reading her blanket with her hands, and the epic poem she walks for days/ inside a thousand eyes/ a two-spirit story were recently published. Her work has also appeared in numerous anthologies and journals.
Two Poems

Charles Pachter has been seen as a national icon in Canada for decades, and is also internationally recognized as a painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer, historian, and lecturer. His work has been exhibited, and is in public and private collections in Canada, the U.S., Europe, Japan, and India. He is also a member of the Order of Canada, and lives in Toronto.
M is for Moosemerizing…

José Ramón Heredia (1900-1987) of Venezuela was a journalist, literary critic, diplomat, essayist and poet. He published 12 books, the most important being Los espejos del más allá in which he defined his modernist/ romantic style – combining the socio-political with the cosmic, urban and scientific – that would gain him international recognition.
Five Poems

Edward Brown of Toronto has published in Spacing Magazine, Shameless, Danforth Review, Dalhousie Review, Exile: The Literary Quarterly. His story “Beer Bottles and Bowling Balls” (in Exile Quarterly) was included in the 2007 Journey Prize Anthology.
Meet the Teacher

Concetta Principe of Toronto has published Interference, a collection of prose poems, and the novella Stained Glass. Her poems have appeared in Descant, Grain, Malahat Review and Matrix. Don Juan’s Fish-bowl is her poetry collection-in-progress.
Don Juan’s Fishbowl

Stephen Cain of Toronto is the author of the poetry collections American Standard/Canada Dry, Torontology, and, dyslexicon, and the collaborative series of micro-fictions, Double Helix, written with Jay MillAr. He is also co-author, with Tim Conley, of The Encyclopedia of Fictional and Fantastic Languages.
A Homophonic Translation of Claude Gauvreau’s  “Trustful Fatigue and Reality”

Lillian Necakov came as a child to Toronto from Beo-grad, (former) Yugoslavia. Her books are Polaroids, Hat Trick (Exile Editions, 1998) and The Bone Broker; she is anthologized in the U.S., Europe, China and Canada.
Ten Poems

Ray Roberston of Toronto is the author of the novels Home Movies, Heroes, Moody Food, Gently Down the Stream, and What Happened Later, and a collection of nonfiction, Mental Hygiene: Essays on Writers and Writing. His sixth novel, David, is due Autumn 2009.
David

Patricia Latour of Gatineau, Quebec, is an emerging painter with works exhibited and collected in Canada, France and Belgium.
Cover Paintings

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Autumn 2008

Kunal Basu – The Japanese Wife

Kunal Basu was born in Calcutta, lived in Montreal for many years where he was a professor at McGill, and now teaches at Oxford University. Author of three acclaimed novels – The Opium Clerk, The Miniaturists, and Racists – he has acted on stage and in film and written poetry and screenplays. “The Japanese Wife” has been made into a film by India’s celebrated director Aparna Sen.

Paul Vermeersch – Seven Poems

Paul Vermeersch of Canada is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Between the Walls. His next collection, The Reinvention of the Human Hand, is due for release in 2010. He lives in Toronto, where he is a regular contributor to the Globe and Mail books section, a teacher at Sheridan College, and a poetry editor for Insomniac Press.

Seán Virgo – The Grey Panama

Seán Virgo was born in Malta and grew up in South Africa, Malaya, Ireland and the UK. He has lived on Canada’s east and west coasts, in southern Ontario and, for the last 10 years, in southwest Saskatchewan. He has published a dozen books of poetry and fiction, most recently a collection of short stories, Begging Questions (Exile Editions, 2006). The Grey Panama is an excerpt from a novel-in-progress. (see  page 164 for more on his books with Exile Editions)

Carlos Castro Saavedra – Four Poems

Carlos Castro Saavedra of Colombia (1924-1989) led a life totally dedicated to poetry. Although echoes of Pablo Neruda can be heard in his poems, he was far from being an imitator. His books include 33 Poemas and La Voz del Viento.

Jon Brooks – Moth nor Rust

Jon Brooks of Canada declares “The folk singer’s mandate is to politicize love: to lobby for compassion to be our principal representative in government office.” His 2007 CD, Ours and the Shepherds, was a collection of Canadian war stories from past and present. He is the 2007 Canadian Folk Music Award Nominee “Best Songwriter”, 2007 Ontario Council of Folk Festivals Winner “Songs From The Heart Award” and the 2006 Green Man Review’s “Songwriter Of The Year.” The songs appearing in this edition of Exile are from his forthcoming CD, Moth Nor Rust – an investigation into all the living things that neither “moth nor rust” can touch.

Jesus Hardwell – Easy Living

Jesus Hardwell of Canada has recently published in The Dalhousie Review and The Windsor Review.

S.D. Chrostowska – Six Microfictions

S.D. Chrowstowska of Canada holds a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Toronto. Currently, she is working on a book on nostalgia and philosophy. Her work is forthcoming in JanusHead.

Gale Zoë Garnett – Savage Adoration

Gale Zoë Garnett of Canada is the author of Visible Amazement, Transient Dancing and Room Tone. She is currently writing a book of essays and a first poetry collection, and is also a working actor and book reviewer. Her new novel, Savage Adoration, will be published by Exile Editions in 2009.

Paul Vangelisti – Days Shadows Pass

Paul Vangelisti of the United States is the author of some 20 books of poetry, as well as being a noted translator from the Italian. In 1981 he was awarded a Translation Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts (US), and in 1988 a Poetry Fellowship from the same Endowment. In 2006, his and Lucia Re’s translation of Amelia Rosselli’s War Variations received both Italy’s Flaiano Prize and the PEN USA award. From 1971-1982 he was co-editor, with John McBride, of the literary magazine Invisible City and, from 1993-2002, edited Ribot, the annual publication of the College of Neglected Science. His new collection of poems is Days Shadows Pass.

Amy White – Skin of Water

Amy White of Canada is Turtle Clan from Walpole Island, Ontario. She is an Honours graduate of the Centre for Indigenous Theatre’s Full-time Acting Program. Her dramas-in-progress, Keweyani and Skin of Water, were produced in the Native Earth’s Weesageechuk Begins to Dance Festival 2006 and 2007 seasons.

Kenneth J. Harvey – Blackstrap Hawco

Kenneth J. Harvey of Newfoundland, Canada, has been published in over a dozen countries, and has won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, the Winterset Award, Italy’s Libro Del Mare, and has been nominated for the Giller Prize, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. His new family saga is Blackstrap Hawco. (see page 164 for more on his books with Exile Editions)

ARTISTS

Ann Beam (Interior and front cover) of Canada is an Ojibwe who has exhibited nationally and internationally since the mid seventies.  She lives and works on Manitoulin Island, Ontario.

Anongonse Migwans Beam (Interior and back cover) of Canada is an Ojibwe artist from Manitoulin Island. She has exhibited her paintings and ceramics locally, nationally and internationally.

Claire Weissman Wilks (for Jon Brooks) of Canada is in many private and public collections, nationally and internationally. Most recently she had a one-woman exhibition at the Querini Stampalia museum in Venice. Her image for the songs will appear in colour as the cover art for Moth Nor Rust.

Summer 2008

P.K. Page – Fifi

P.K. Page of Canada is the author of The Hidden Room (2 volumes), Planet Earth, and Up on the Roof.  Forthcoming are two children’s books, and two books of poetry, The Essential P.K. Page and Coal and Roses.

James Clarke – Eight Poems

James Clarke of Canada is a Justice of the Ontario Court of Justice, General Division. He is the author of seven books of poetry with Exile Editions: Silver Mercies, The Raggedy Parade, The Ancient Pedigrees of Plums, The Way Everyone Is Inside, Flying Home Through the Dark, How to Bribe a Judge, and Forced Passage. He has also published the memoir A Mourner’s Kaddish: Suicide and the Rediscovery of Hope.

Lauren B. Davis – Neighbours

Lauren B. Davis of the U.S. is the author of The Radiant City (a finalist for the Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize) and The Stubborn Season (chosen for the Robert Adams Lecture Series) as well as a collection short stories, Rat Medicine & Other Unlikely Curatives. Her short fiction has been shortlisted for the CBC Literary Awards. Exile Editions will publish her second collection of short stories, An Unrehearsed Desire, in the autumn of 2008.

Karen Solie – Five Poems

Karen Solie of Canada is the author of two books of poetry, Short  Haul Engine and Modern and Normal. She is the recipient of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and has been shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Gerald Lampert Award. She is currently working on her third collection.

David Layton – Petrified

David Layton of Canada is a prose writer and journalist. He is the author of the best-selling memoir, Motion Sickness, nominated for a Trillium award, as well as the comic novel, The Bird Factory, currently being made into a feature film. He also writes for numerous publications including the Globe and Mail and Conde Nast and is currently completing his third book, Bloodlines.

Norman Snider – Bagman

Norman Snider of Canada has written extensively for movies and television, including the Gemini award-winning Dead Ringers, the crime drama Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss, as well as Rated X and Valentine’s Day. His collection of non-fiction, The Roaring Eighties and Other Good Times, appeared in Autumn 2007 with Exile Editions, and will be included as a part of the Ottawa International Authors Festival 2008 autumn lineup. Bagman, a feature film, will begin production in 2009.

Nicholas Ruddock – Sebald

Nicholas Ruddock of Canada has published short fiction in The Fiddlehead, Prism International, The Dalhousie Review, The Antigonish Review, Grain, subTerrain, and Event. One of his stories was included in The Journey Prize Anthology 2007.

Richard Teleky – Five Poems

Richard Teleky of Canada is a professor of Humanities at York University. His most recent books are the novel, Winter in Hollywood, and a poetry collection, The Hermit’s Kiss.

Lawrence Jeffery – Frenchtown

Lawrence Jeffery of Canada was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Drama for his first play, Clay, which was also nominated for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play. Jeffery has spent much of the past 15 years writing about China, India, Africa and South East Asia.

Richard Gorman – New Paintings

Richard Gorman (Interior) of Canada is an abstract painter whose career spans several decades and generations of Canadian art history. He has exhibited extensively throughout North America, and is represented in numerous museums, including the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery of Canada. Richard Gorman has been represented by Christopher Cutts Gallery (Toronto) since 1992.

CLAIRE WEISSMAN WILKS – Cover

Claire Weissman Wilks (Cover) of Canada is in many private and public collections, nationally and internationally. She has had one-woman exhibitions of her drawings, sculpture, and monoprints in New York, Zagreb, Rome, Jerusalem, Stockholm, Mexico City, and Toronto. Most recently, she had a one-woman exhibition of her monoprints at the Querini Stampalia museum in Venice.