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HA&L issue nine.1 PLANET EARTH   Portfolio: A 22 Year Collaboration with the Bees • by Aganetha Dyck the flowering plum tree: Bees, Science, and Sadness • by Nancy Holmes Art is Labour: Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge • by Earl Miller Judith Fitzgerald’s Electric Poetry • by R. Bruce Elder Filmmaker, Critic, Journalist, and Right To Die Activist • John Hofsess: Man in Pieces by Stephen Broomer. Detail: Portraits by Arnaud Maggs.   Judith Fitzgerald’s Electric Poetry by R. Bruce Elder [TRINITY] To Fiona Kinsella, Paul Lisson, and Vesna Trkulja-Stevens with Love by Judith Fitzgerald Judith Fitzgerald NOTES TO THE EDITOR by Ann-Marie Metten, Talonbooks POEMS A Selection from Impeccable Regret by Judith Fitzgerald Judith Fitzgerald’s Impeccable Regret by Thomas Dilworth A Poet’s Life Remembering Judith Fitzgerald, 1952–2015 by Karl Jirgens “Beyond The Blue Neon” The Lyric Authority of Judith Fitzgerald by M. Travis Lane Judith Fitzgerald To Be Remembered And Celebrated by Lenore Langs Dark, sexy, funny, dangerous • and a Poem  ONCE IN A BLUE MOON (after Judith Fitzgerald)  by Stan Rogal Letters from Judith Fitzgerald Filmmaker, Critic, Journalist, and Right To Die Activist John Hofsess: Man in Pieces  by Stephen Broomer THE FIELD Sunglasses in the Cold: “David” and Euthanasia in Canada by Shane Neilson A Poem: DAVID by Earle Birney A Memoir from Italy How Al Purdy travelled to Tuscany, lending his poetry to Siena by Laura Ferri Poetry: A Small Wooden House and In December by Chris Pannell Art is Labour: Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge by Earl Miller A Portfolio of Photographs: Artists in their Studios by Jeff Tessier "Is There a Subtle Difference between Selling Art and Selling Potatoes?" Making The Leg Book by V. Jane Gordon • with an Introduction by Stephanie Vegh Capturing a half century of oppression and promise, Jacob Lawrence: An Introduction and Poem, Color Separation by Sima Rabinowitz the flowering plum tree: Bees, Science, and Sadness by Nancy Holmes Portfolio: A 22 Year Collaboration with the Bees by Aganetha Dyck Video: Two Claymation Shorts Arcscape & Seascape by Kelly Zantingh Portfolio: An Aqueous State by Janusz Wrobel Poetry: Seeing Andromeda and Matter by Nicola Winstanley Poetry: Waterfowl and Gamos by Annick MacAskill What to Save in a Burning House: Wayne Allan and the Arts by J.S. Porter A Poem: Great Fire of the World Highway No.1. East of Regina by Kenneth McRobbie A Portfolio of Paintings by Miklos Legrady Short Story: Love, Despite its History by Jeremy Griffin Poetry: Somehow and Under the Muscle by Sean Johnston Poetry: recipes for breakfast and sofreh by Bahar Orang Poetry: Our tradition's to discuss the essential shift of every year and Come soon to shutter on 'till sealing night by F. A. Meier Poetry: Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now and Rumsey Road by Nathaniel G. Moore Portfolio: Barton Village Series by Sonya de Laat Introduction by Amanda Dudnik Poetry: X-Ray Machine and Gathering by Danny Jacobs Book Review by Kim Echlin: Reflections on the twentieth anniversary of the second edition of The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature In Bed With The Word • Reading Daniel Coleman: an Introduction to Student Responses by Shane Neilson HA&L RAVE: SHORT WORKS  from: Elisha Stam a minute to even think, Beatrice Ekwa Ekoko's Bus Stories, and Judy Pollard Smith's The Dam Seed Collection. A Memoir: Al Purdy by Lucia Lippi. PLUS: more writing on Daniel Coleman and In Bed With the Word:  Julia Empey's Reading as Stumbling Back To Ourselves,  Analepsis by William Jesse Dorey, Alone – With Someone Else by Rachel Harvey, and Appealing to Vulnerability by Elizabeth DiEmanuele. JOIN US October 21, 2016 • Honouring Cees and Annerie van Gemerden • Exhibitions and Wine and Cheese Reception SHORT WORKS PRIZE for writing: 2016 Award Recipients! Become a Member Help HA&L to continue publishing! “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.” ― Mahatma Gandhi [Pyarelal, and Mahatma Gandhi. 1966. Mahatma Gandhi Vol. 1, Book 2 Vol. 1, Book 2. Ahmedabad: Navajivan Pub. House.] “Float Like A Butterfly, Sting Like A Bee.” ― Muhammad Ali. Guest Poetry Editor: Shane Neilson Paul Lisson: Editor Fiona Kinsella: Editor / Designer Contributing Editor: David Forsee Associate Editor: John Nyman Assistant Editor: Leah Klein Founding Art Director: Peter Stevens (1963-2015) Hamilton Arts & Letters 8TH ANNIVERSARY issue nine.1   ISSN 1916-8454     HAL on Twitter "Is There a Subtle Difference between Selling Art and Selling Potatoes?" Making The Leg Book by V. Jane Gordon • Introduction by Stephanie Vegh Portfolio • by Miklos Legrady Portfolio: Artists in their Studios • by Jeff Tessier • Artist, Brian Kelly Claymation Shorts • Arcscape & Seascape • by Kelly Zantingh Portfolio: An Aqueous State • by Janusz Wrobel     HA&L magazine Membership. This Boat / cannot float / without you.                                                                       HA&L magazine would like to acknowledge the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council an Ontario Government Agency, and the City of Hamilton. Sincere thanks to all of HA&L's members and sponsors – we wouldn't be here with out you!