No Place Like Home: A Winnipeg Issue
Winter 2013 · Vol. 35 No. 3
In her essay “Making Art,” Winnipeg poet and novelist Catherine Hunter writes: “Some artists leave home to make discoveries, to remake themselves. Others stay put to discover themselves and remake their homes.” It makes sense then, that, in addition to a fine array of writing and art, this issue represents a range of the “Winnipeg experience” as represented by former Winnipeggers like Jon Paul Fiorentino and Sylvia Legris; transplanted Winnipeggers like Méira Cook and Derek Dunlop; budding Winnipeggers like Steven Leyden Cochrane; and of course all those Winnipeggers for life like Catherine Hunter and John K. Samson. All artists, all very different in their mediums, approaches and ways of speaking. Common to them all: the unique gravity of this city.
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- e before i I set out to find Glenn Gould’s gravesite. / Row 1088, Plot 1050. Nowhere near the rose garden. / / I ...
- Winter Archive Tonight, steel mesh of constellations and a die-cut moon. Flames in the northern sky / and sirens — another fire ...
- (hospital vespers) Doctors played your dosage like a card-trick, / scrabbled down the hallways yelling “Yahtzee!” / I brought ...
- Girl, Walking Ah you, bright you, / breaking day open like a dry loaf / and setting off ...
- Sad Steps Stumbling back to bed after a pee / I’m startled by the stalker moon, peeping / Thomasina through the spare ...
- Spring Break Spring break. Kids are on the loose in the mind and everywhere. / Down by the creek, they club the ice with thick ...
- Making Art in Winnipeg To practice art in this particular town is risky. Like all particular towns, this one has its perils. Some say it’s the wind. Some say it’s the moment the summer sky’s split white by lightning. It’s the shadow of the peregrine falcon that haunts the high glass towers. It’s the black ice, the burning stubble, the reckless ...
- The Winnipeg Cold Storage Company The title of “Winnipeg Cold Storage Company” poses the question of collective memory and what it means to say that ‘things might be done with storage’? The problem of collective memory is thus immediately bound up with a question of performance. What does it mean for storage not only to store, but also in some ...
- Notes on Systems, with Winnipeg in Mind In recent years Winnipeg has had its reputation, at least in the visual arts, blossom internationally. With high profile group exhibitions in Ottawa, New York, San Francisco and Paris, artists from our prairie city have been talked about like never before. These exhibitions have favoured place over anything else, and ...
- found: one city one poet one voice & one love letter It took me a long time to call myself a writer. Even longer to put ‘poet’ next to my name. Back then, Rosanna Deerchild didn’t even exist. And if not for this place, none of it would have even happened. After graduating from my town’s only high school in ...
- Process and Parody, Reading and Writing I read Linda Besner’s debut The Id Kid (Véhicule, 2011) because I can’t imagine writing like this, for the perfect title, and because the book brims with energy, craft and humour. I suspect that she’s a process poet, but it’s too soon to tell. In “Dogwalker’s Lawsuit,” a typically satiric Besner poem, she appears to be ...