Anatomy Lesson On November 29 the remains of a pigeon lie along the path of my morning walk—the wings, the spine, two crabbed feet, other inedible parts. Between November 27…
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From Wigrum. La Peuplade, 2011. Daniel Canty is a Montreal-based writer and film director who works in literature, film, theatre and design, and new media. His first book, Êtres Artificiels (Liber, 1997), is…
from Accusation, Goose Lane Editions, 2013. What am I supposed to do, he shouted. His voice dropped, contrite. I’m sorry. Raymond Renaud’s hand reached out across the car, as if to…
CONTAINER translated by Lydia Davis On the highway from Rotterdam to Vladivostok, on the train through the Betuwe, on the ships on the Twentekanaal, everywhere, I see the containers that…
She is told to never go into the ocean alone. Of course, she goes into the ocean alone. Remote: they drove hours past a post office and then a tree…
From Wigrum, Daniel Canty. Trans. Oana Avasilichioaei. TalonBooks, 2013. Oana Avasilichioaei is a poet, translator, and editor whose poetry collections include We, Beasts (winner of the Quebec Writers’ Federation’s A.M. Klein Prize for…
08.02.2000 Exactly at the foot of the wall, where empty beer bottles had been thrown, some blades of grass sprouted. On top of the wall we stood looking at the…
From For Sure, France Daigle. Trans. Robert Majzels. Anansi Press, 2013. Robert Majzels is a novelist, poet, playwright and translator. He lives in Calgary. Click on the image below to view…
From Pour sûr. Boréal, 2011. France Daigle is a prize-winning Acadian writer of novels and plays in French. Her novel Pour sûr not only won her first GG award, but also received the Prix…
That night I dreamt that I was a forty-year old woman, and my husband was a retired colonel. He was running a community center in a poor neighborhood, and his…