This lit journal is beautifully well done and put together. It has a photograph on the cover and is printed on good quality paper. It’s quite thick, too. The photography is great. The layout is quite beautiful. Some articles/pieces were amazingly well done, including Eva Tihanyi’s interview with Aritha Van Herk. Kwame Dawe wrote an interesting review of Poetry Nation, an anthology of fusion poetry, though I don’t think he appreciated the book as much as I did. Terrance Cox’s pieces were excellent, including some poems addressed to Dorothy Livesay and Bronwen Wallace. So was the story Tristan’s Quarter by Richard Scarsbrook. Though I have no major quibbles with the work in here, I was not particularly awed either. Such is the way of well-fabricated lit journal. (AK)
literary journal, Summer 2000, $7, 125 pages, The Harpweaver, Department of English Language and Literature, Brock University, 500 Glenridge Ave. St. Catharines, ON, L2S 3A1