Volume 33.2

Summer 2009

Aziz Nazmi Shakir-Tash is a poet, fiction writer, and translator born in southern Bulgaria, now living in both Sofia and Istanbul, Turkey. He is the author of three books of poetry and one of short prose: Grounds for a Sky, At 22, A Sky at 33, and Rain Apocrypha.
Grounds For A Sky

Julie Booker of Canada has appeared in The New Quarterly, Descant, and The Windsor Review. This story won First Prize in the Writers’ Union of Canada 2009 Short Prose Competition for Developing Writers, and her short story collection, Silver Hearts, was shortlisted for the 2005 John Metcalf-Leon Rooke Award.
Every Good Boy

Keith Garebian of Canada is an award-winning author of thirteen books of non-fiction and three poetry collections. These poems are from Children of Ararat, a new collection coming in April 2010.
Children of Arrarat

Eugenio Montale of Italy is one of that country’s most distinguished 20th-century poets. Born in Genoa in 1896, he published his first collection of poems in 1925. After many decades of writing, he was made a senator for life in Italy in 1967 and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975. He died in 1981.
Four Poems

Sheila Murray of Canada has been published in The Dalhousie Review and Descant, has completed a short story collection, and is currently working on a novel. She is a sound editor and documentary filmmaker.
Upside Down

Jürgen Becker, Friedrich Ani, Silke Scheuermann, Harald Hartung
Gisela Argyle (translator) of Canada has published German poetry into English in various Canadian magazines, articles, and the book Germany as Model and Monster: Allusions in English Fiction 1830s-1930s.
Four Contemporary German Poets

Leon Rooke of Canada is the author of, among others, Oh!, Who Goes There, Fat Woman, Shakespeare’s Dog, The Face of Gravity, A Good Baby, The Magician of Love, The Beautiful Wife, The Last Shot, and with Exile Editions in 2010, the novella, Cloistral Clam.
Cloistral Clam

Alain-Pierre Pillet of Switzerland works in cross-genres involving his photography or collaborations with visual artists. He is part of a network of Surrealist-oriented artists, publishes in over thirty literary revues, has worked in film and theatre, and is founder and director of the Geneva publishing house Les éditions des Iles Célèbes. His publications include André Breton à Venise, Heures exquises, Paysage poétique d’André Pieyre de Mandiargues, and Rase campagne (in translation here as Boondocks) which incorporated his photographs.
Boondocks

Carolyn Black of Canada has published in The New Quarterly, Room, and The Dalhousie Review. She has recently completed a manuscript of darkly humorous stories about women and illness.
Serial Love

Baziju is a pen name of Roo Borson and Kim Maltman. Roo Borson’s most recent book of poetry, Short Journey Upriver to Oishida, won the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the Governor General’s Award for Poetry; her latest book is a collection of essays, Personal History. Kim Maltman is a poet, theoretical particle physicist, and member of the collaborative poetry ensemble Pain Not Bread, whose published collection is entitled Introduction to the Introduction to Wang Wei.
Six Poems

Stela Jelincic is an editor responsible for new young Croatian writers at Konzor Publishing, in Croatia, as well as being a regular contributor to the country’s leading weekly, Globus, and the cultural magazine Plan B. This selection comes from her first novel.
A Weed Is Just A Plant Growing In the Wrong Place

Glen Downie of Canada has published fiction, non-fiction, reviews, and six books of poetry.  His latest collection is Loyalty Management for which he won the Toronto Book Award.
Seven Prose Poems

Melissa Hardy of Canada is a native of North Carolina who spent her teenage summers on the Qualla Boundary, a tract of land held in reserve for the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation. She has published the novel A Cry of Bees, two short story collections, and was the winner of both the Journey Prize (for a selection that appeared in Exile Quarterly) and the Canadian Authors Association’s Jubilee Award. Her 2009 novel, excerpted here, is from Broken Road (Exile Editions ).
Broken Road

Translators

Michael Beard teaches in the English Department at the University of North Dakota. His most recent book is a translation of poems by Adonis, Mihyar of Damascus, His Songs (with Adnan Haydar).

Marta Simidchieva of Bulgaria teaches Islamic history, culture, and religion at York University and at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on hybrid texts and East/West cultural interrelations.

Mary Jane White of the United States has appeared in The Hudson Review and The New England Review. She is the Allamakee County Attorney in Waukon, Iowa.

Ray Ellenwood of Canada has, for 30 years, published many translations in Exile Quarterly and Exile Editions, primarily of the literature of Québec; of note with Exile Editions: Egregore, the comprehensive overview of the Montreal Automatists, and the Automatist manifesto, Refus Global, now as an Exile Classics Series book in 2009.

Tomislav Kuzmanovic of Croatia is the translator of two books, and his work has appeared in The Iowa Review, 91st Meridian, eXchanges, Relations, Quorum, Frakcija, and The New European Poetry Anthology. He teaches literary translation at the University of Zadar.

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Spring 2009

Barry Callaghan of Toronto is an award-winning poet, novelist, publisher and journalist. His works include Hogg: The Poems and Drawings, The Black Queen Stories, When Things Get Worst, A Kiss Is Still a Kiss, and the memoir Barrelhouse Kings. His writing has been published and translated around the world.
A Little B-Ball With Rabbit: John Updike

Erina Harris is a Canadian poet currently completing her MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her work has appeared in journals in several countries, and in translation. She has received numerous awards, grants, residencies, and subpoenas.
Bestiary

Marilyn Dumont of Edmonton has written A Really Good Brown Girl (Gerald Lampert Memorial Award), green girl dreams mountains (Stephan G. Stephansson Award) and that tongued belonging (Anskohk Aborigi-nal Poetry Book of the Year). She has been Writer-in-Residence at various universities, and teaches Creative Writing.
Three Poems

Jean-Marc Desgent of Montréal is among the most original of Quebec poets writing today. He has published close to twenty books, and has won Le Grand Prix du Festival International de Poésie de Trois-Rivières award twice, the Governor General’s Award for Poetry, and Le Prix Estuaire des Terrasses Saint-Sulpice poetry award. Translator Daniel Sloate is a writer who lives in Montréal.
Twentieth Centuries

Carol David of Montréal has published six books of poetry. She has won the Émile-Nelligan award, the Terrasses-Saint-Sulpice poetry award, and was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry and Le Grand Prize de Poésie de Trois-Rivières award. Her new collection of poetry, The Place Where Your Soul Dwells, follows her latest short fiction collection, Unholy Stories. Translator Nora Alleyn lives in Montréal.
The Place Where Your Soul Dwells

Linda Griffiths of Toronto has, as a playwright and actor, received numerous recognitions, among them five Dora Mavor Moore Awards, a Gemini Award, two Chalmer’s Awards, and has twice been nominated for the Governor General’s Award. Her plays include Maggie & Pierre, The Darling Family, Alien Creature: a visitation from Gwendolyn MacEwen, and Age of Arousal.
A Game of Inches

Kathleen McCracken of Markdale, Ontario, is the author of six collections of poetry including Blue Light, Bay and College (shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry), A Geography of Souls and Mooncalves (Exile Editions, 2007). Tattoo Land is forthcoming in 2009 from Exile Editions.
Snow Tea

Special international Section
Our Canadian Poets Take On the World

Barry Callaghan, who began this issue, is recognized as one of Canada’s great men of letters, and has won the W.O. Mitchell Award for mentoring young writers. His latest works are the book of short stories, Between Trains, and a new novel, Beside Still Waters.
Stone Soup

Armand Garnet Ruffo of Ottawa derives significant influence from his Ojibway heritage. His books include Opening in the Sky, Grey Owl: the Mystery of Archie Belaney, and At Geronimo’s Grave, winner of the 2002 Archibald Lampman Award for Poetry. He is an Associate Professor specializing in Aboriginal Literature, at Carleton University.
Water Lily Woman

Jennifer Duncan is a Toronto writer. Her previous books are Sanctuary & Other Stories and Frontier Spirit: The Brave Women of the Klondike. She teaches Creative Writing at York University, and co-directs at KIAC.
Red Light, White Snow, Black Sky

Ricardo Sternberg is the author of three poetry collections: The Invention of Honey, Map of Dreams and Bamboo Church. He teaches Brazilian literature at the University of Toronto.
Three Poems

Joanne Arnott is a Métis writer, born in Winnipeg, and currently residing in B.C.’s Lower Mainland. Her passions are writing, performing on stage, and being an activist supporting the voices of Aboriginal mothers and grandmothers. Her books include Breasting the Waves: On Writing & Healing, Steepy Mountain: love poetry, and Mother Time: poems new & selected.
Three Poems

Erin Robinsong is originally from coastal B.C., and now lives in Toronto working on an MFA in Creative Writing. She is an interdisciplinary artist, a recipient of the Irving Layton award for poetry, and is co-curator of The Twilight Bike-In Movie Theatre and Tertulia, a literary salon.
Homonym Series, #12

Hugh Graham is a writer, screenwriter and journalist from Toronto. His work for radio won an ACTRA and a Peabody Award. His last book was a memoir, Ploughing the Seas (Exile Editions), about CIA operations in Costa Rica and Nicaragua, 1984-1987. His short fiction has appeared in the New Quarterly, The Antigonish Review and Exile: The Literay Quarterly.
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