20:2 | Endings and Beginnings

Read the poetry of endings and beginnings by Conyer Clayton, Kayla Czaga, Neil Surkan, and more. Find a new review by the editor of Resisting Canada, Nyla Matuk in which she considers Shapeshifters by Délani Valin. After reading the French and the English, Katia Grubisic offers her thoughts on House Within a House by Nicholas Dawson and gives high praise for the new English translation by D.M. Bradford. Introducing the Vallum Chapbook Award winner, Maya Clubine, and welcoming the next poet in the series, Karen Solie. Read the issue via the links below for free!

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

POETRY

J. J. Steinfeld — INTERROGATION
Jami Macarty — LATE AFTERNOON AUTUMN, A TREMBLED ALTERNATIVE
Willow Little — GALATEA FEELS FEAR FIRST
Madelaine Caritas Longman — BREATHING, NOT COUNTING
Rachael Cain — ERASURE
Ken Victor — INVITATION
Kayla Czaga —SMALL POEM
Conyer Clayton — BEFORE AND AFTER
Yuan Changming — THE TUNER: A 50-WORD TRILOGY
A. S. Compton — UNGERMINATED
Neil Surkan — BRACKISH
John Pass — A SIMPLE STRUCTURE
Callista Markotich — YOU ARE NOT
Drew Lavigne — AUTUMN REGRET
Amanda Wong — FRAGILE BEAUTY
Blaine Marchand — SYNTAX
Élodie Parthenay — SOME THINGS YOU CAN’T ASK THE ANCESTORS
Jacob Lee Bachinger — WHEN LOST
Cassy Welburn — THE GOLDEN GATE TO THE MIND
Liselle Yorke — ATTACHMENT

2023 Vallum Chapbook Series

Maya Clubine, Vallum Chapbook Award Winner — River Bug on the Black Sea, from Life Cycle of a Mayfly
Karen Solie — Dust, from Wellwater

REVIEWS

Katia Grubisic — A Review of House Within a House by Nicholas Dawson (Translated by D.M. Bradford)
Nyla Matuk — A Review of Shapeshifters by Délani Valin

ART

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