Issue #4
: Terrence Abrahams David Alexander Sacha Archer Manahil Bandukwala rob
mclennan Chimedum Ohaegbu Terese Mason Pierre Ben Robinson Ian Seed Lydia
Unsworth
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Open Books: A Poem Emporium (Seattle WA), Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop (Brooklyn NY),
the Windsor Small Press Fair (Windsor ON) and the New Orleans Poetry Festival
(New Orleans LA).
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Terrence Abrahams lives and writes quietly in
Toronto. His second and third poetry chapbooks are forthcoming this year with
ZED Press and baseline press. Find him on Twitter at @trabrahams.
David Alexander is the author
of After the
Hatching Oven from Nightwood Editions (2018). His poems have appeared
in Prairie Fire, The Rusty
Toque, The
Humber Literary Review, the Literary
Review of Canada,
Big Smoke Poetry and other journals and
magazines. David volunteers as a reader for The
Puritan and works in Toronto’s nonprofit sector.
Sacha Archer is a writer that works in numerous
mediums as well as being the editor of Simulacrum Press (simulacrumpress.ca).
His work has been published internationally. Archer has two full-length
collections of poetry, Detour
(gradient books, 2017) and Zoning Cycle
(Simulacrum Press, 2017), as well as a number of chapbooks, the most recent
being TSK oomph (Inspiritus Press,
2018), Contemporary Meat (The Blasted
Tree, 2018) and Autopsy Report
(above/ground press). His visual poetry has been exhibited in the USA, Italy,
and Canada. Archer lives in Ontario, Canada.
Manahil Bandukwala is the author of two chapbooks, Paper Doll (Anstruther Press, 2019) and Pipe Rose (battleaxe press, 2018). She
was the 2019 winner of Room magazine's Emerging Writer Award, and
won the Lilian I. Found Award for poetry in 2019. See her work at manahils.com.
rob
mclennan currently
lives in Ottawa, where he is home full-time with the two wee girls he shares
with Christine McNair. The author of more than thirty trade books of poetry,
fiction and non-fiction, his most recent titles include the poetry collections How the alphabet was made (Spuyten
Duyvil, 2018) and the forthcoming Household
items (Salmon Poetry, 2019) and A
halt, which is empty (Mansfield Press, 2019). He spent the 2007-8 academic
year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, and
regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and other notices at robmclennan.blogspot.com
Chimedum Ohaegbu attends the University of British
Columbia in pursuit of hummingbirds and a dual degree in English literature and
creative writing. She is Uncanny Magazine’s assistant editor and her work is
published or forthcoming in Strange
Horizons, This Magazine, Honey & Lime Lit, and The Capilano Review.
Terese Mason Pierre is a Canadian writer, editor and
organizer. Her work has appeared in the Hart
House Review, Collapsar, The Brasilia Review and others. She is
the poetry editor for Augur Magazine
and the co-host of Shab-e She'r, a poetry reading series in Toronto.
Ben Robinson's recent poems include the tale of a man who finds himself lodged in
his condominium’s garbage chute, as well as an account of the Christian God’s
foray into Spanish lessons. In 2019, The
Blasted Tree will publish his chapbook, The
Sims in Real Life. He has only ever lived in Hamilton, ON.
Ian Seed’s latest collections are New York
Hotel (Shearsman, 2018), which was selected by Mark Ford as a TLS Book of
the Year, and Distances (Red
Ceilings, 2018).
Lydia Unsworth is the author of two collections of poetry: Certain Manoeuvres (Knives Forks & Spoons, 2018) and Nostalgia for Bodies (Erbacce, 2018), for
which she won the 2018 Erbacce Poetry Prize. Her work can be found in Ambit, Pank, Litro, Tears in the Fence, Banshee, Ink Sweat and Tears,
and Sentence: Journal of Prose Poetics,
among other places. Based in Manchester/Amsterdam. Twitter@lydiowanie
