HA&L magazine issue fifteen.2

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HA&L 14th Anniversary


PROCESS
 

Abstract image made from white, green, and purple letters exploding on a black surface.
Vispo Fortune Cookie by Nico Vassilakis • image detail: A Lather of Letters

Illustration of red skeleton explaining drawings in the background.
REDWORK: The Emperor Of Atlantis • by Catherine Heard

Purple, blue, and green diamond shaped patterns.
Artwork: Tryptiles & Variegraphs • by Steve Venright

Yelow ceramic duck head on a bright blue background.Sculpture & Poetry • by MA|DE
 
abstract cubist-like image in light blue, grey and black.
VISPO: Aleph Null • by Jim Andrews • Image detail: bill bissett

A typewriter key with a landscape superimposed on it. The letter E.
Visuals and Poetry Videos • by Gary Barwin • Image detail: E

line drawings of hands with writing.
VISUAL POEMS • by Andrew Topel • Detail: sign language

Black and white ink drawing made of small circles. Looks like a chain.
Visual Poetry: Tracings / Indian Residential schools • by Aaron Tucker • Detail

Abstract image with a yellow rectangle and black letters typed overtop one another.
Visual Poems • by Amanda Earl • Detail

Black yellow and red, with the number 1.
Excerpts from: “NO. 1 IN BIG TOWN” • by Hart Broudy • Detail

West coast indigenous artwork with eagle, and whale. Black, white, and red.
An Omnipoetics Manifesto •˜by Jerome Rothenberg & Javier Taboada • Image detail: Nuu chaa nulth (Nootka) house screen, dating to late 19th century / Pacific North West Indian Art

Black, white, and red abstract image of a fish splashing in water
Visual Art: Works In Progress • by Ziggy Fronckevics • Detail

Text that reads: It is the Same. It is the Same.
It is the same • by Márton Koppány • Detail

A large full moon in a dark landscape.
Videopoems • by Penn Kemp • Still: Night Orchestra

Black and white vintage line drawings of two eyes.
Vispo & Sound Poetry • by W. Mark Sutherland • Detail

Collage made with scraps of paper. Text reads: Room type: Double Queen.
BIRCH SYRUP after René Char • by Phil Hall • Detail: In Memory of Noel Moore

Watercolour painting of a tree with browning leaves. An unoccupied bench below it.
A Retrospective: Looking Back by Roger Ferreira • with an introduction by Melissa Bennett • Detail: The Love Tree, Cootes Paradise, watercolour, 1988

Painting of a busy city street at sunrise.
Paintings: RUNBYS • by Jacquie Jacobs • Detail: Blue Rising

Colourful painting with the word RESIST.
O SEQUOIA! • by Paula Claire • Detail

The word Revolution turned upside down.
The Attack Of Difficult Women Prose • by Gail Scott

Iain standing in a pool holding an ampersand.
&TONDO THOUGHTS • by IAIN BAXTER&

Abstract image with moving shapes. Circles.
Visual poetry: AsemiQuads • by Jaap Blonk

Colourful images of a palm tree, evergreen, and cactus tree.
VISUALS • by Clemente Padin

Black and white abstract image with lines and circles.
Typewriter Texts & Vis-Po • by Gustave Morin • Detail

Vintage sepia tone image of an underwood typewriter.
Prose/Poem: Underwood No. 5 • by Stan Rogal
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  INTRODUCTION
by GUEST EDITOR Karl Jirgens

An Omnipoetics Manifesto
by Jerome Rothenberg & Javier Taboada

THE ATTACK
OF DIFFICULT WOMEN PROSE

by Gail Scott

Poetry: park heart
by Daphne Marlatt

Short Story: Language Acquisition
by George Bowering

Poetry: well to rise
by Cecily Nicholson

Sphinx & Semele
by Dani Spinosa

Visual Poems
by Amanda Earl

Poetry: Tracings
Indian Residential schools

by Aaron Tucker

Poetry: Umbrella Plans, Market Man,
and Limited Lifetime Warranty

by Frank Davey

Poetry: A Suite for the Muses
by Robert Hogg

&TONDO THOUGHTS
by IAIN BAXTER&

REDWORK: The Emperor Of Atlantis
by Catherine Heard

Poetry: À Amatoritsero Ede, The Calling,
and About the Love at Victoria Street

by George Elliott Clarke

Poetry: Where Here Were We (2020)
by Charles Bernstein and Norman Fischer

Poetry: Late August, Stay, Love Song,
and A Decent Lunch in Ottawa

by Beverley Daurio

QR HAIKU
by Robert Dawson

VISUAL POEMS: sign language & sound off
by Andrew Topel

A visual poem: On a Thought of Basho
by Steve McCaffery

Poetry: tpyrc
by Karen Mac Cormack

Visual poetry: AsemiQuads
by Jaap Blonk

Poetry: We Shall Write of Rivers
and Our River, Distant, Calls Death

by D.A. Lockhart

The Intimacy Of – A SUITE
by Vanessa Shields

VISUALS
by Clemente Padin

Ekphrasistically
by Kent Johnson

4 Photographs From
My Father’s Album Speak

by André Narbonne 

A Woman Who Loves
by Gord Grisenthwaite

Typewriter Texts & Vis-Po
by Gustave Morin

Collages
by Carol Stetser

Poems & Images
by Karl Kempton

Poetry: Frailty & Wavelength
by Karl Jirgens

Poetry: In the Wilds of the Moment and “You share this grumpy complaint…”
by Bryan Sentes

Visual Poetry: The White Face of Death
by Gregory Betts

Typewriter Poems: Bifurc 2
and Broken Spine

by Kevin Stebner

Studies In Canadian Modernism
(GO TRANSIT)

by derek beaulieu

Writing From A Bench In Europe City
欧洲城 TONGZILIN, CHENGDU

by Ellie Csepregi

how to kiss a man with a moustache
by Laurie Smith

Poetry: Poet on a Postcard
by Peter Hrastovec

Poetry: Bibliographic Dislocation
by Beatriz Hausner

Visual Texts:
Soneto da sobreposição
and Fake Poem # 33

by Fernando Aguiar

Texts: Chorus: Three voices # in a happy darkness # and It Is The Nature Of The Truth That Like A Lie It Hides Itself
by James Dunnigan

Sculpture & Poetry
by MA|DE

Mixed Media: STASH
by Giovanni Pecoraro

Poetry:
first reel snow wrap yr mind up in it

by bill bissett

VISPO: A Visual Narrative BY THE CLOCK
by Brian Dedora

Short Story: THE EGG
by Chloe Burrows-Moore

Paintings: RUNBYS
by Jacquie Jacobs

Poetry: Fake Bio
& First Person Singular Tense

by Stan Rogal

BIRCH SYRUP after René Char

by Phil Hall

Poetry: STARTLEMENT
(Near The Niagara Escarpment)

by Jeanette Lynes

Poetry: Intention
by Christopher Dewdney

Poetry from: RadioWactive
by Steven Ross Smith

Poetry: MISSED OCCASIONS and
ON THE OCCASION OF WRITING A POEM

by Jason Camlot

Poetry: Folk Wisp
by Louis Cabri

Poetry: First Law of Cartoon Physics
by Lillian Nećakov

Poetry: Autobiography of blue
by rob mclennan

MAMA: Hamilton, Ontario
to West Point, Virginia [June 1865]

by Richard Douglass-Chin

Metal Fatigue
by Rhea Tregebov

Poetry: “We are in the mystery of the name” and This Finger Of Night Bleeds
by James Deahl

Poetry: My Life as an Archivist,
Reading Room Rules, Smell of Old,
and The Social Life of Ruined Photographs

by Jody Baltessen

Excerpts from: “NO. 1 IN BIG TOWN”
by Hart Broudy

Visuals and Poetry Videos
by Gary Barwin

Poetry: Christmas, They Cool Upon My Face, and Do you think
by Károly Bari / translated by Endre Farkas

The CANADA POST BOX SERIES
by Daniel F. Bradley

CALEMBOURS
by Alan Lord

Poetry: Blue Sky Snapshots
by Marty Gervais

Poetry: Hotel balcony, Budapest,
100 years post-Gavrilo

by Lorenzo Buj

Poetry: language carrier
by Rawand Mustafa

META-VERSE
by Hans Braumüller & Ruggero Maggi

From here to eternity,
Flux Poetry, & Je Suis Tibet

by Ruggero Maggi

VISPO: Aleph Null
by Jim Andrews

Poetry: February (on “March”), old lady archaeology, and Iron Goddess of Mercy
by Joanne Arnott

Poetry: Pure Refined,
and Lapis (Dung Beetle)

by Kristina Tiessen

Poetry: Remaining
by Katherine McLeod

Short Story: Alice & Melissa
by Laura Mulrooney

Poetry: giiwewedoon
by Lesley Belleau

Poetry: Father Throw
by John Barlow

The Second Law
of Languages as Applied to Memory

by Michael Dean

Visual Art: Origin of Geometry
by Michael Winkler

Vispo: It Is The Same
by Márton Koppány

Prose/Poem: Underwood No. 5
by Stan Rogal

Vispo Fortune Cookie, A Lather of Letters, Ego is Dead, and Eyedrops
by Nico Vassilakis

DOES IT HAPPEN
THAT SOMEONE REFUSES?

by Niels Hav

A Queer, Nishnaabe Ghost Story
by Ostoro Petahtegoose

O SEQUOIA!
by Paula Claire

VIDEOPOEMS:
Night Orchestra and Translation

by Penn Kemp

DANGER/TIME/SKY
by Jürgen O. Olbrich

A Translation of Frank O’Hara:
A Step Away From Them

by Ken Norris

Poetry: Code and A Note on the Extinction of Brown Bears in Ireland
by Kim Fahner

Artwork: Tryptiles & Variegraphs
by Steve Venright

LAST POEM
by Stuart Ross

Artwork:
Desk Detritus, Nobel Ontario 2020

by Susan Gold

Poetry: FOXGLOVE BELLS MANIFESTO
by Susan Holbrook

Poetry: The Trout as Landscape
& Occipital Lobe

by Willow Loveday Little

VISPO & SOUND POETRY:
Eye + Ear & Cutup

by W. Mark Sutherland

Poetry: Give and Go, Balance (a poem), and This is for Hamilton
by Roger Ferreira

A Retrospective: Looking Back
by Roger Ferreira
with an introduction by Melissa Bennett

Artwork: Works In Progress
by Ziggy Fronckevics

Book Review - G.A. Grisenthwaite's Home Waltz: The Trouble With Transcendence
by André Narbonne

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Hamilton Arts & Letters
14TH ANNIVERSARY
issue fifteen.2
 
ISSN 1916-8454


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