editorial

At the age of seventy-seven Alistair MacLeod died as the sun rose on Easter Sunday.

Alistair MacLeod, who won the Dublin IMPAC Prize in 2011, was often in Fredericton.

I drive to Fredericton from Guelph every bridging weekend between September and October to visit my aging parents, to see the tree leaves signal their riotous death-parade along the Saint John River...and I come for poetry too.

What is the poetry of everyday life?

You are never old, fair friends, our readers, as long as summer's near.

Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious by The Fiddlehead Spring Issue

The American novelist and essayist Ralph Ellison

The arrival of summer would appear simple. From an

Elizabeth (Betty) Winifred Brewster passed away December 26

In the early forties my father was a young man in Europe