Tongue Tide is one of those slightly irregular magazines that is driven by the vision of its creators and the force of its breadth. Without fear, Tongue Tide explores the possibilities of literary publishing, incorporating page-stock, design, art-work, photography, and, of course, the written word, into a testament to what is human. There are so many striking images in the issue I have in front of me, both in the poetic and the visual sense, that it seems almost hopeless to try and do the magazine justice. Let’s see, Caroline J. Davis is obviously an accomplished and sensitive poet; C. Blades gives us a haunting pen drawing centre spread, hands slipping into the arched doorway of the smoking metal metropolis — This magazine represents activism in the best sense; It insists on a way to do simply by the doing.
literary journal / publisher: Tom Synders / main creator: Tom Snyders / $5, $23 for four / PO Box 364 1027 Davie Street Vancouver BC V6E 4L2