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HA&L special issue • nine.2 PLAY   Cees & Annerie van Gemerden • LIFE AS A WORK OF ART by David Forsee. Photograph: Hendrik-Jan Koldeweij, 1960.   Cees & Annerie van Gemerden LIFE AS A WORK OF ART by David Forsee HE GAVE ME THREE THINGS Cees & Annerie van Gemerden by Shelley Niro Chronicles of Space and Time: The Photographic Projects of Cees and Annerie van Gemerden by Mary O’Connor THE GOOD MIND Indigenous Wisdom and Ageism by Rick Hill Portfolio: "Trespassing – More Power Anyone?" by Cees van Gemerden "No Trespassing" and "Trespassing:" On the Waterfront with Cees van Gemerden by Ken Cruikshank & Nancy B. Bouchier "NO CEES, NO PHOTOS" Re-Inhabiting The Photographers' Union Gallery by Anne Milne Our Friends by Cees and Annerie van Gemerden Poetry: An Expressway Away from Here and Now by Robert Clark Yates I FOUGHT THE LAW AND THE LAW WON: Confronting the Law in the Red Hill Valley by Jane Mulkewich The Continuing Legacy of Red Hill Valley by Don McLean Tesatawiyat Indigenous families in their homes by Bryce Kanbara and Mina Ao Review: Nathan Heuer  – Scenes from Late Capitalism by Bart Gazzola Portfolio: Mystic Collage by Sean Gadoury A Portfolio of Photographs: Habitat Machines & Industrial Parkland by David Trautrimas Review: BILL VIOLA'S MARY – A Video Installation Instead Of A Classic Altar Piece by Francesca Valente THE FIELD: Known Unknowns • On Peter Sanger’s Of Things Unknown by Shane Neilson Poetry: Tree Fort by Derek Webster From Surrey to Commercial Drive, Dead Phones, and Periphery by Jen Currin Portfolio II: Artists in their Studios by Jeff Tessier Short Video: The Critique by Rachel Black Short Story: A Home Made in Miniature by Grace Evans Short Story: Running and the Gastrointestinal Question by Conrad Smyth A Portfolio of Paintings Ex Libris (from Dickens to Shakespeare) by Avery Tanner Poetry: IRON MAN IN THE HAMMER by Salvatore Difalco Poetry: Red Junglefowl, Invisibility or Flight?, and Review of the Royal Poultry House by David Alexander Poetry: American Naturalist #1 by Madhur Anand Poetry: The Chinese Garden and Scotch Broom by Phoebe Wang Poetry: Colony Collapse and Cyclic by Madeline Bassnett Poetry: Tree as Lens, Mechanics Haiku and Taking Goethe to the Eastern Idaho State Fair by Matthew James Babcock Poetry: Every You Every Me by Josh Smith Book Reviews with an introduction by Shane Neilson: One of the few places you can learn anything about what you already care about: Three Reviews of Katja Lee and Lorraine York’s Celebrity Cultures in Canada • Reviews by Brenna Clarke Gray, Samita Nandy, and Jeanette Lynes Poetry Book Review – The Well-Tempered Palimpsest: Bricolage & Ventriloquism in Darrell Epp’s After Hours by Phillip Crymble Poetry Book Review: Praying to Articulate – The Controlled Play of John Nyman’s Players by Danny Jacobs AND SEE HA&L RAVE with Poetry from FJ Doucet, and James Puntillo. Book Review by Jeffery Donaldson: “Two Kinds of Light” Earth Day in Leith Churchyard: Poems in Search of Tom Thomson by Bernadette Rule. Book Review by Nancy C. Doubleday: Towards Less Adversarial Cultures by Ray Cunnington. SHORT WORKS PRIZE for writing: 2016 Award Recipients! Become a Member Help HA&L to continue publishing! “Harper’s Conservatives have used three basic methods to undermine environmental stewardship in Canada: reduce the government’s capacity to gather data; downsize or eliminate offices that monitor and analyze scientific information; and seize control of channels of scientific information and prevent the publication or release of any information that could interfere with government policy.” ― Mel Hurtig (1932-2016) The Arrogant Autocrat: Stephen Harper's Takeover of Canada. Guest Editor: David Forsee (1944-2017) Guest Poetry Editor: Annick MacAskill Paul Lisson: Editor Fiona Kinsella: Editor / Designer Associate Editor: Shane Neilson Associate Editor: Alison Frank Assistant Editor: Leah Klein Founding Art Director: Peter Stevens (1963-2015) Hamilton Arts & Letters 8TH ANNIVERSARY issue nine.2   ISSN 1916-8454     HAL on Twitter HE GAVE ME THREE THINGS • by Shelley Niro Portfolio: "Trespassing – More Power Anyone?" • by Cees van Gemerden Chronicles of Space and Time: The Photographic Projects of Cees and Annerie van Gemerden •  by Mary O’Connor Bill Viola's Mary • by Francesca Valente Confronting the Law in the Red Hill Valley • by Jane Mulkewich Nathan Heuer's Scenes from Late Capitalism by Bart Gazzola Portfolio: Habitat Machines & Industrial Parkland by David Trautrimas Portfolio: The Mystic Collage of Sean Gadoury Our Friends by Cees and Annerie van Gemerden Tesatawiyat • Indigenous families in their homes. A project by Bryce Kanbara and photographer Mina Ao. Image detail: Pebbles Williams and family. Artists in their Studios by Jeff Tessier • Photo of Artist Gordon Leverton   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, the City of Hamilton, and CCENA. Sincere thanks to all of HA&L's members and sponsors – we wouldn't be here with out you!