HA&L magazine issue eleven.2

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HA&L 10th Anniversary


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Hortense Gordon: Hamilton’s Avant-Garde Pioneer by Earl Miller * Detail: Abstract Forms, Studio Interior by Hortense Gordon, courtesy of the Art Gallery of Hamilton
Hortense Gordon: Hamilton’s Avant-Garde Pioneer • by Earl Miller * Image detail: Abstract Forms, Studio Interior, courtesy of the Art Gallery of Hamilton

Our Country — Le Canada • by Jeffery Donaldson. Montage: Charles William Jefferys / derivated work : Benoit Rochon Public Domain.
Our Country — Le Canada • by Jeffery Donaldson. Montage: The Battle of Quebec (1775) by Charles William Jefferys / Derivated work by Benoit Rochon, public domain.

  Our Country — Le Canada
by Jeffery Donaldson

Vanguard Arts In Hamilton:
Introductory Remarks

by R. Bruce Elder 

Kenneth Rexroth:
Turning Eastward to Renew the West

by R. Bruce Elder

Hortense Gordon:
Hamilton’s Avant-Garde Pioneer

by Earl Miller

Amar, Artist: Essay-Memory Fragments
by B.W. Powe

An Interview with John Robert Colombo
by J.S. Porter

A Found Poem
by J.S. Porter

Short Story:
The Honeymoon Period

by Anne Bokma

Endarkenment and Release:
Leonard Cohen’s You Want It Darker

by Susan McCaslin

Poetry: Eternal Granada
by B.W. Powe

All of Us: The Making and the Music of the Tragically Hip Ballet
by Karen Barr

Portfolio: Artists For Climate Action / Extinction Rebellion
organized by Neil and Yvonne Woodley

Excerpts from Showdown!
Making Modern Unions
, A Graphic History

by Rob Kristofferson & Simon Orpana

Alfred Joyce (1909 — 2004) & Hamilton's King William Street Art Studios
Illustrations by Gord Pullar
and memories from Annerie van Gemerden

A Portfolio of work
by Aocso

Notre Dame Cathedral: A postcard from Paris, 1970
by James A. Chambers

Level Six - An AGH StrataMap
by David Lee

Memoir: Everything’s Fine
by Anita Lahey

"Clear As Day in the Forerunners":
An Interview with poet Cory Lavender

by Jesse Eckerlin

Audio from the Storylines archive:
An Interview with Tim Inkster

by Christine Cowley

Audio from the Storylines archive:
An Interview with Trevor Cole

by Christine Cowley

SSHRC as Idea-Shelter:
Waving Goodbye to an Elevator Pitch I’ve Made Hundreds of Times

by Shane Neilson

Poetry: This won’t be pretty
by Cameron Kroetsch

Poetry: ALLA LUNA • TO THE MOON
by M. Teresa Santalucia Scibona

[translated by Laura Ferri]

Poetry: Pensions
by James Olwell

Poetry: To Joe at Snow Road, Morning Interlude, and On First Learning My Mother Had Cancer
by Mary Dean Lee

Poetry: The Hone
by Richard MacKinnon

Poetry: Root Rot
by Erin Emily Ann Vance

Poetry: Whitman in Canada
by Robert Krantz

Poetry: 白金城市 • Platinum City
by Yuan Hongri
[translated by Manu Mangattu]

The History Ahead of Us: A Review of A.F. Moritz’ The Sparrow
by Patrick O’Reilly

A Review: “What a Frame-up! ”
Stan Rogal's A Rogue’s Decameron

by Karl Jirgens

Review: Stan Rogal, A Rogue’s Decameron
by Jo-Anne Elder

Review • Toronto’s Hungers: Revisiting the fabliaux style in the 21st Century –
Stan Rogal's A Rogue’s Decameron

by Robert Colman

Review: A Feast, a Butchering:
Aaron Schneider’s Grass-Fed

by Jenn Carson

Local History: On the Steps
by Roy J. Adams

Measuring Beauty & Gathering Words: A Story about HA&L’s Feedback Survey
by Alise de Bie

ALSO SEE HA&L RAVE with a Memoir from Miriam Clavir, Poetry by Anne Bokma, and Jenn Carson, and J.S. Porter's review of B.W. Powe's The Charge In The Global Membrane

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Hamilton Arts & Letters
10TH ANNIVERSARY
issue eleven.2
 
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Endarkenment And Release: Leonard Cohen’s You Want It Darker • by Susan McCaslin. Photograph: Sony Music. You Want It Darker, ATV Music Publishing, Nashville, 2016.
Endarkenment And Release: Leonard Cohen’s You Want It Darker • by Susan McCaslin. Photograph: Sony Music. ATV Music Publishing, Nashville, 2016.

Kenneth Rexroth: Turning Eastward to Renew the West • by R. Bruce Elder. Image detail: Book cover. World outside the window: the selected essays of Kenneth Rexroth. New York: New Directions.
Kenneth Rexroth: Turning Eastward to Renew the West • by R. Bruce Elder. Image detail: Book cover. World outside the window: the selected essays of Kenneth Rexroth. New York: New Directions.

Amar, Artist: Essay-Memory Fragments • by B.W. Powe.  Image detail: Untitled Assemblage by Joseph Amar. Courtesy of Discoveries in American Art.
Amar, Artist: Essay-Memory Fragments • by B.W. Powe. Image detail: Untitled Assemblage by Joseph Amar. Courtesy of Discoveries in American Art.

All of Us: The Making and the Music of the Tragically Hip Ballet • by Karen Barr. Poster detail: courtesty of the Alberta Ballet.
All of Us: The Making and the Music of the Tragically Hip Ballet • by Karen Barr. Poster detail: courtesty of the Alberta Ballet.

Portfolio: Artists For Climate Action • organized by Neil and Yvonne Woodley. Image detail: It Has Begun by Isaac Murdoch.
Portfolio:  Artists For Climate Action • organized by Neil and Yvonne Woodley. Image detail: It Has Begun by Isaac Murdoch.

Portfolio • by Aocso
Portfolio  • by Aocso

Notre Dame Cathedral: A postcard from Paris, 1970 • by James A. Chambers
Notre Dame Cathedral: A postcard from Paris, 1970 • by James A. Chambers

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