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Fiction: Lucy Honig, Barry MacLeod, Heather Pyrcz, and Steve Walker.

Out of Place: John Steffler.

Poetry: Diana Brebner, Nathan Cervo, Fred Cogswell, Dennis Cooley, Lorna Crozier, John Donlan, David Etheridge, Roger Finch, Lee Meitzen Grue, Judith Harway, Lewis Horne, Patt Jasper, Lyn King, Jacqueline Moore, Michael Pacey, Thelma Poirier, Carolyn Smart, Raymond Souster, Steve Walker, Brian Wickers, Michael Wilson, and David Winwood.

Reviews: M. Travis Lane, and Michael Taylor.

Fiction: Shiela Delany, Bruce Hunter, D.A. Leyden, Margot Livesey, and M. Anne Mitton. 

Out of Place: Eric Trethewey.

Poetry: John Barton, Stephen Brockwell, Audrey Conard, Marlene Cookshaw, Philip Gardner, N.C. Hough, M. Travis Lane, and Leslie Nutting. 

Reviews: Marget Harry, Eric Thompson, J.A> Wainwright, Liliane Welch, Terry Whalen, and Alan R. Young. 

Fiction: Fred Bonnie, Leon Rooke, and Joan Fern Shaw.

Poetry: Stephen Carter, Anne Cimon, Allan Cooper, Jeffrey Donaldson, Ingrid Fiske, D. Gutteridge, Ken J. Harvey, Tim Hoppy, Stuart Holtby, John Lavery, Michael Brian Oliver, Bruce Rice, R. Rolfe, Michael B. Turner, and Laurie Anne Whitt.

Out of Place: Liliane Welch.

Reviews: W.J. Keith, John Kertzer, Lorraine McMullen, Kathleen Tudor, and J.A. Wainwright.

Fiction: Heather Fawcett, Douglas Glover, and Lesley Choyce.

Poetry: John Ditsky, M.B. Duggan, S.D. Harasym, George Elliott Clarke, Jeffery Donaldson, Katherine Soniat, Chistopher Levenson, Dwight Kostjuk, Erin Mouré, Alice Fulton, James Deahl, Elizabeth Philips, Gabriel Fitzmaurice, Edward Gates, Mark Sanders, Gary Lundy, and Joe Blades.

Out of Place: Alden Nowlan.

Reviews: M. Travis Lane, Ann Munton, Liliane Welch, and Andrew T. Seaman.

Fiction: Paula Butler, Leon Rooke, Allan Donaldson, and Stephen Ecton. 

Out of Place: Milton Acorn. 

Poetry: Bill Howell, Marlene Cookshaw, Liliane Welch, Andrew Greig, Edward Gates, Rienzi Crusz, Elspeth Bradbury, Robin Robertson, Ken Norris, Michael C. Kenyon, Brian R. Cornell, James Strecker, Richard Stevenson, Ron Charach, Heather Lee Crosby, Kevin Cawley, and John Brebner.

Reviews: Anne Mandel, M. Travis Lane, Liliane Welch, Michael Brian Oliver, Eric Tethewey, John Mills, and Roy Geiger. 

Fiction: Helen Weinzweig, Wayne Wright, Guy Vanderhaeghe, and David Carpenter.

Interview: Nancy Bauer.

Out of Place: Douglas Lochead, and David Adams Richards.

Poetry: Marcia Hurlow, Derk Wynard, Rosemary Blake, Jan E. Conn, Eric Cashen, John Zanes, Dorothy Roberts, Susan Fromberg Schaefer, Jeff Worley, Paddy McCallum, David S. West, Marlene Cookshaw, and Joseph Sherman.

Reviews: Michael Dixon, Barbara Godard, John Mills, Andrew T. Seaman, Michael Taylor, Russell M. Brown, Kent Thompson, Bruce Whiteman, and Jon Kertzer.

Fiction: Mark Jarman, Rochelle Distelheim, Hugh Cook, and Frances Itani. 

Poetry: L. A. Farquhar, Roger Nash, Elspeth Bradbury, Peter Sanger, S.Kerslake, St.-John Simmons, Kathryn Deneau, Virginia Scott, Bill Howell, Kathleen Lignell, Erin Mouré, Daniel David Moses, Karen Bodlak, and M. Travis Lane. 

Reviews: Guy Hamel, Anthony S. Brennan, Carrie MacMillan, M. Travis Lane, Allan Cooper, and Gillian Davies.

Poetry: Barry Dempster, David Andrus, Ian Dempsey, Kris Larson, Neile Graham, Bruce Meyer, Michael Czuma, Mark Sanders, Dorothy Roberts, Lela Parlow, Sally Harasym, Patricia Alpert, and David Hickey. 

Fiction: Larry Rowdon, John Metcalf, and Don Dickinson.

Reviews: Guy Hamel, W.J. Keith, Michael Dixon, Joseph Gold, John Mills, Anthony S. Brennan, Jon Kertzer, M. Travis Lane, Eric Trethewey, Don Precosky, and Gillian Davies.

Fiction: Leon Rooke, Miriam Waddington, Philip Milner, and Joel Yanofsky.

Poetry: Tom Wayman, Ellen Siegel Wolfe, Neil Cole, Gordon Turner, Allan Cooper, Mark Lowey, M. Joan Macleod, Jeffery Donaldson, Garry Raddysh, Lewis Horne, Paul Belserene, Eugene McNamara, Kay Smith, Mike Barnes, Mark Defoe, John Bruce, Jerome Micho, Lorna Uher, and Kim Maltman. 

Reviews: Barbara Godard, John Mills, Michael Brian Oliver, George Dretzsky, Michael Taylor, Roger Ploude, Anthony Brennan, J.M. Kertzer, Eric Trethewey, Carrie MacMillan, Don Precosky, D.W. Russell, and Gillian Davies. 

Fiction: Cynthia Holz, Kevin Roberts, Frances Itani, Fred Bonnie, and Stephen Boston.

Poetry: Ken Norris, Brian Purdy, Daniel David Moses, E.M. Schorb, Rachel Bonacci, Alan Mackenzie, John V. Hicks, Mike Czuma, Alan Kennedy, Jill Elizabeth Dunderdale, Daniel Adams, Leona Keenan, Mike Barnes, Barry Dempster, Joy Kogawa, Betty Ann McDorman, Roger Nash, and Jim Joyce.

Reviews: Anita Lahey, Clarisssa Hurley, Emily Skov-Nielsen, Ryan Gaio, and Mark Dickinson. 

Poetry: Leigh Faulkner, Elizabeth Brewster, Liliane Welch, Allan Cooper, Peter Thomas, Beckie Leaman, Frances Itani, Audrey Conard, Terrance Cox, Daniel Adams, B. Vanderlip, Agha Ali, Heather Cadsby, Lois Beebe Hayna, Janet Durno, Richard Lemm, Dave Margoshes, Tim Merrill, Paddy McCallum, and Bert Almon.

Fiction: M. Anne Mitton, Joan Fern Shaw, and Elin Elgaard.

Reviews: Robert Gibbs, Michael Brian Oliver, Stan Dragland, Roy Geiger, Don Precosky, Louis K. MacKendrick, Anthony S. Brennan, Kathleen Tudor, and D. W. Russell.

Fiction: Barry Dempster, Kenneth Radu, Ernest Hekkanen, Rolaine Hokstein, and Ann Copeland. 

Poetry: Stephen Guppy, Ron Miles, John Flood, Helen Porter, R. A. Kawalilak, Allan Cooper, Maria Jacobs, Kathleen Lignell, Susan Schaeffer, Leigh Faulkner, Stephen E. Smith, David Romtvedt, Jim Joyce, Rober Ziegler, Charles Lillard, Charles Black, David Hopes, Jim Bennett, Bronwen Wallace, and Daniel D. Moses.

Reviews: Michael Taylor, Stephen Scobie, Guy Hamel, John Mills, Paul McNally, M. Travis Lane, Jean Mallinson, and George Dretzsky.

Fiction: Hugh Hood, Mark Jarman, Barbara Jasiura, Frances Itani, Larry Rowdon, and Brenda Riches.

Poetry: Sharon Chiaferi, Allan Cooper, Liliane Welch, Brian Bartlett, Marsha Mitchell, John Currie, John Lent, Mildred Rose, Robert Hillies, Walter Wason, Gord Ripley, Barry Dempster, Paul Cook, Lawrence Mathews, Rosemary Aubert, Blane Despres, Jan Webber, Sandra Foushee, Phil Cope, Len Gasparini, Paul Boudreau, Paul Gotro, Hilary Thompson, Carol Jane Bangs, Jeanne Murray Walker, Craig Powell, Patrick White, and Rita Rosenfeld.

Reviews: Guy Hamel, Sam Solecki, M. Travis Lane, David West, Robert Gibbs, Chaviva Hosek, Paul McNally, Jack David, Anthony Brennan, Michael Taylor, and John Mills.

Fiction: Elizabeth Brewster, Peter Crowell, Michael Smith, William Bauer, Jeff Lipkis, and Erika Ritter.

Poetry: Robert Lietz, Donald Ward, Mark Jarman, W. J. Smart, Ann Fox Chadonnet, D. Conway, Kathy Tyler, Mary Di Michele, Allan Safarik, Leigh Faulkner, Jean Berett, David Conn, Kenneth Radu, Susan Zimmerman, David West, Ken Norris, Maureen McCarthy, William Elliott, Mike Czuma, David Solway, Elizabeth Gourlay, and M. Travis Lane.

Reviews: John Mills, Jon Kertzer, Anthony Brennan, Michael Brian Oliver, M. Travis Lane, Alan Young, and Bill Bauer. 

Poetry: Kevin Roberts, Floyd G. Stuart, Bronwen Wallace, Douglas Barbour, Joseph McLeod, Michael Brian Oliver, Dermot McCarthy, Barry Dempster, Nathan Cervo, Leigh Faulkner, Janet Kask, Olaf Pollmann, Dave Cavanagh, Constance Scheerer, Frederick Zydek, Eric Trethewey, James Harrison, and Rod McDonald.

Fiction: Joyce Carol Oates.

Reviews: Michael Dixon, Chaviva Hosek, Robert Lecker, Stephen Scobie, Michael Brian Oliver, Jack David, and Gillian Davies.

Fiction: Eric Trethewey, Clare Beghtol, Morgan Martin, F. W. Watt, and W. D. Valgardson. 

Poetry: Salli Ritch-Smith, Glen Sorestad, Ken Watson, Paul Cook, Kim Maltman, Deirdre Ballantyne, Alan Kennedy, Audrey Conard, Don Sawyer, Giles Slade, C. M. Buckaway, Lorna Uher, Sharon Nelson, Michael Harris, Claude Liman, R. Filter, Carolyn Zonailo, Ted Kulik, Marty Gervais, Sharon Olds, Bryan Doubt, Laurence Hutchman, Janie Blue-Zwarts, Craig Rogers, Judith Johnson Sherwin, and Andy Bartlett.

Reviews: Wilfred Crude, Anthony Brennan, Kent Thompson, John Mills, Ian Burgess, Sam Solecki, M. Travis Lane, and Gillian Davies. 

Fiction: Fred Bonnie, D. J. Cohen, Abraham Boyarsky, Marcel Bénéteau, Pamela Bush, and Suzanne McConnell.

Poetry: Ralph Gustafson, Robert Hawkes, Bob Kirby, Mary Willis, Russell M. Brown, Timothy Shay, Raymond Souster, Donald Guravich, Ed Jewinski, Bruce Falconer, Shawn Thompson, Derk Wynand, Stephen Luxton, Michael Cameron, Ants Reigo, Rod Willmot, Cyril Dabydeen, Julie McNeill, and Robert Burns. 

Reviews: Michael Taylor, Fred Cogswell, M. Travis Lane, Gillian Davies, Stan Dragland, and Mary Lund.

Fiction: Rudy Wiebe, Alexandre Amprimoz, Joyce Marshall, and Terry Kelly. 

Poetry: Dorothy Livesay, Elizabeth Brewster, Peter Stevens, Anthony Christie, Olaf Pollmann, Leroy Gorman, Theodore Colson, Jan Webber, Lorna Uher, Tom Wayman, Penny Chalmers, Brian Purdy, Dorothy Roberts, Kevin Major, Paula Hopper, Pier Giorgio DiCicco, Claude Liman, Mark Frutkin, Robert Currie, Allan Brown, William Krauss, and Lazar Sarna. 

Reviews: Gillian Davies, Mary Lund, Michael Taylor, Peter Thomas, and Simon Leigh.

Fiction: Dorothy Grant, Marcia Tager, Alan Annand, Ants Reigo, and Ken Mitchell.

Poetry: Gregory Grace, Keith Henderson, Taylor Graham, Les Arnold, Dawn Downton, Bruce Iserman, Robert Lietz, Don Domanski, Cathie Pelletier, Randall Maggs, Michael Brian Oliver, Dan Leger, Leigh Faulkner, Allan Cooper, Terry Krishkan, and Richard Wollatt.

Drama: Edward Mullaly.

Article: Ralph Gustafson.

Reviews: Stephen Scobie, Beverley Mitchell, Michael Taylor, Allan Donaldson, Gillian Davies, and M. Travis Lane.

Fiction: Margaret Atwood, Fred Bonnie, Marilyn Julian, and Douglas Glover. 

Poetry: Randall Maggs, Roland Burns, Neil Besner, Stanley Cooperman, D. R. Hannah, Anne Marriott, Brian Henderson, Robert Burns, Tom Wayman, David McFadden, Graham Adams, Harry Howie, and Bruce Iserman. 

Reviews: M. Travis Lane, Brita Mickleburgh, Stan Dragland, John Mills, David Watmough, Steven Overbury, Francis Timleck, Gillian Davies, and Robert Gibbs. 

Fiction: Joyce Carol Oates, and Ara Baliozian. 

Poetry: Dave Margoshes, Allan Annand, Lawrence Mathews, Cyril Dabydeen, Glen Allen, Don McKay, William Downes, Douglas Barbour, Ralph Gustafson, Claude G. Liman, Elizabeth Jones, Leslie Mobbs, Shawn Thompson, Michael Brian Oliver, Bob Kirby, Dermot McCarthy, Don Gutteridge, Hugh Miller, and Joe Hutchison. 

Reviews: Anthony S. Brennan, Russell Hunt, T. D. Maclulich, and M. Travis Lane. 

Published in 1974, issue one hundred of The Fiddlehead is not only entertaining but a deeply moving celebration, offering a glimpse into the past to see how far the journal has come and to see the words of those who worked so hard to get it to where it is today. A bold sticker – “Take that, Toronto!” – gloats on its cover and sets the stage for editor Kent Thompson’s no-holds-barred editorial in which he takes aim at the literary establishment in Toronto, riffing off his new book review editor’s opinion on literary reviews as “mutual puffery.” According to Thompson, “The other magazines, yes, they do that, all the time . . . and everything he says about reviewing is true to them, but is quite untrue of us. We’re different. We’re better.” We can glimpse the visions and aspirations he had for the magazine.  

This issue features important writers. One worth mentioning is Carol Shields who appears in this issue with three short poems romanticizing average quotidian occurrences. In 1993, nearly two decades after being published in our magazine, Shields’ book The Stone Diaries was the recipient of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, and in 1995 she won the Pulitzer Prize. Other prominent writers featured in the issue include poet Elizabeth Brewster, a founding member of The Fiddlehead who contributes three poems, and fiction writer Alan Mackenzie. The interpretation of I Ching hexagrams are at the center of one of Brewster’s poems, divided into three sections, each offering a different meaning. Alan MacKenzie’s short story examines the line between life and death and at what point is death considered a gift through the eyes of a seemingly normal high school football player 

Another unique characteristic of this issue is that it is scattered with stunning drawings by Robert Percival, which capture human emotions in vulnerable moments. All pictures are set in a hospital and one man reappears throughout the issue in Percival’s drawings. Percival reminds us of our inescapable mortality. The facial expressions on the man’s face exudes pain and sadness. His eyes are the windows to his soul. In one of the drawings, a man is surrounded by health care professionals, but is lonely all the same. Percival does a terrific job in depicting a rather bleak experience, using shadowing techniques to illustrate a hopelessness, an absence of light and happiness. 

Bailey Noiles 
Intern, February 2022 

Fiction: Blanche Hodder, Marilyn Julian, and Fred Bonnie. 

Poetry: M. Travis Lane, Mel Dagg, Pat Lowther, Jim Stewart, Michael Muldoon, Carol Shields, Rienzi Crusz, Maria Flook, C. M. Buckaway, John Stupp, F. C. Booker, and Rona Murray.

Reviews: B. D. Barrie, Daniel W. Doerksen, and Allan Donaldson. 

Fiction: David Reiter, Leon Rooke, Sharon Pollock, and Helen Rosta. 

Poetry: 422-902-510 HB, Brendan Galvin, Seymour Mayne, Susan Musgrave, Alden Nowlan, Anne Marriott, M. Travis Lane, Joe Hutchison, Micere (Githae) Mugo, Sean Virgo, Lorraine Vernon, Robert Kroetsch, C. H. Gervais, Mark Sarner, Rienzi Crusz, John Zanes, Richard McNulty, Michael Bronson, Donald M. Murray, Dan A. Barker, Marilyn Zanes, Jeannine Dobbs, Brendan Galvin, and Charles Lillard. 

Reviews: M. Travis Lane, John G. Moss, and Joseph Sherman.