No. 253 (Autumn 2012)

Contents:

Introduction
5         Ross Leckie: The West Coast Issue

Fiction
7         Linda Svensen: Restoration
26       Lorna Jackson: Not So Fast
53       Eden Robinson: Northern Lights
66       Cynthia Flood: Such Language
87       Bill Gaston: Cake's Chicken
107     Vanessa Li: Wreck Beach

Poetry
13       Matt Rader: Two Poems
15       Steve Noyes: Two Poems
18       Catherine Greenwood: Two Poems
22       Peter Norman: Two Poems
42       Lorna Crozier: Four Poems
46       Patrick Lane: Three Poems
49       George Bowering: Two Poems
51       Kevin McNeilly: Slug F**k, Remembering Ted Hughes in Vancouver 1986
52       Jay Ruzesky: Swimming the Pacific
55       Lisa Robertson: Toxins
76       Elise Partridge: Seek and . . .
77       Aislinn Hunter: Two Poems
80       Donna Kane: Two Poems
82       Bren Simmers: Two Poems
84       Jane Munro: Two Poems
86       Gillian Wigmore: song for february
98       Patrick Friesen: Two Poems
101     Jan Zwicky: Three Poems
104     Tim Lilburn: Three Poems

Interview
121     Shane Rhodes: Tim Lilburn: A Poetics of Decolonization

Review
127     Ross Leckie: The Poetics of Everyday Life
           The Collected Poems, Patrick Lane

132     Notes on Contributors

Cover
Nathan Birch
Dusk at Drumbeg Park (detail)
Acrylic on Canvas
40 x 32 in.

*In addition to the print issue, The Fiddlehead teamed up with The Malahat Review to produce a special blog with expanded and additional content.