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Pouèt-cafëe #6 | |
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Pouèt-cafëe is a Canadian publication that aims to support emerging writers and artists. Published three times a year: two issues in French and one in English, it showcases new talent and publishes poems, short stories, non-fiction, photographs and artwork. Several of the poems in this issue are by Martin Last, two by Liane Styker and others from Kristine Tortora, Wanda O'Connor and Joanne Epp. The poems are beautifully printed one to a page on pale oatmeal recycled paper and illustrated in black by Melissa Montagne and Jeanne d'Arc Mailloux. The fiction in this issue is A FOUND STORY by Ann Weinstein. The whole magazine hangs together organically through the visual content of poems, story and artwork. It's hard to pick out favourites from such a rich mix, but how about this, from Martin Last's A PANEGYRIC FOR THE SHEIK OF ARABY: How did I know it was poetry if I didn't know its language? Because it looked like a poem. How did I know its tongue was fruity? Because it had the perfume of fruitor this, from Liane Styker's ETERNAL: The seasons turn, the years go by, all these illusions lead us back, lead back to you and I.The story by Ann Weinstein, A FOUND STORY, runs only to three double spaced pages. It is about moving house and the sadness at having to part with one's acquisitions — in this case, a vast collection of books, and of buying back one's own book because it seems to mean so much. Also provided is a handy list of Canadian literary magazines that runs to eight pages. This seems rather a waste of space to me, and I would have preferred more poetry. | ||
| reviewer: Patricia Prime |