HA&L magazine issue twelve.2

HA&L magazine issue twelve.2 cover

 

HA&L Canadian Dis/Ability Poetics Issue


IMAGINARY SAFE HOUSE

 

Portfolio: paintings by bill bissett. Image detail: mattawa dreem. Photo by Michael Cobb.
Paintings by bill bissett • Detail: mattawa dreem. Photo by Michael Cobb.

My Arrival at Crip: Poetic Histories of Disability, Neurodivergence and Illness in Tkaronto/Taranton/Toronto, 1995-2007 by Sandra Alland. Image detail: 3 wize peopul by bill bissett.
My Arrival at Crip: Poetic Histories of Disability, Neurodivergence and Illness in Tkaronto/Taranton/Toronto, 1995-2007 by Sandra Alland • Image detail: 3 wize peopul by bill bissett.

  Imaginary Safe House:
Introduction Part I

by Guest Editor Shane Neilson

Introduction Part II
by Guest Editor Roxanna Bennett

Introduction Part III
by Guest Editor Ally Fleming

My Arrival at Crip: Poetic Histories of Disability, Neurodivergence and Illness in Tkaronto/Taranton/Toronto, 1995-2007
by Sandra Alland

The Secret Handshake -A Hidden Gem in Kensington Market
by Sofia Ariza

Q and A with bill bissett at
The Secret Handshake

by Sofia Ariza

Portfolio: paintings
by bill bissett

Poetry: Boogie Street Minstrel
by Leo Dragtoe

Notes Toward an Essay on Poetry & Family Relationships in a Few Canadian Poets
by Stephanie Yorke

Notes From a Grieving Mother
by Dorothy Bakker

Poetry: Throw a party for my life, my death
by Stephen Emslie

Leaving the Light On
by Anita Dolman

Poetry: a day's strategies for shrunken working memory
by Pearl Pirie

Poetry: “I, the unspiritual”
by Carla Harris

Poetry: even the idea of maya is maya
by Stuart Ian McKay

Toward a Poetics of Stuckness: Poetry, Mental Disability, and Crisis
by Andrew McEwan

Poetry:
Ex Nihilo: Nine Uneasy Steps to a PhD

by Concetta Principe

On Place and Promise
by Leanne Toshiko Simpson

Poetry: (Cooling bathwater)
by John Luna

Poetry: Effects
by Erin Soros

Poetry: catalogues in the winter
by Bára Hladík

My Body Exists in Another Language
by Dominik Parisien

Poetry: Geology
by S.K.Y Varnam

Fucking Crazy: On Complex Trauma, Surviving Sexual Violence, and Living My Best Slut Life
by Clementine Morrigan

Poetry: Bus Circle At Night
by Annie Lepage

Poetry:
Less sweet than chocolate or concrete

by Aimee Louw

Too Pretty To Be In a Wheelchair:
On Beauty and Disability

by Sue Sinclair

Poetry: THE LONELY LAWS ] HMMMM [
by nancy viva davis halifax

Poetry Review: Cybernetic Slam Poetry and the Poetics of Gossip: Sarah Burgess’ The Mule and the Bitch
by Terry Trowbridge

Poetry Review: Aspirational, Anti-ableist Poetics: Karuna Vellino's A Year in Violets
by Terry Trowbridge

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“Disability and its many intersections amplify the gaps in privilege that determine who is heard, who is seen and whose experiences are considered universal.”

― Leanne Toshiko Simpson

“We are all elegant under the flesh, …”
― Kit Varnan


Guest Editors:
Shane Neilson, Roxanna Bennett, & Ally Fleming
Paul Lisson: Editor

Fiona Kinsella: Editor / Designer
Founding Art Director:
Peter Stevens (1963-2015)

Contributing Editor: David Forsee (1944-2017)


Hamilton Arts & Letters
11TH ANNIVERSARY
issue twelve.2
 
ISSN 1916-8454


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Abstract painting. Image: family by bill bissett. Three light purple human figures suggestive of a male and female adult couple whose child flies behind them, sideways and in a different direction. Link to an article by Stephanie Yorke.
Notes Toward an Essay on Poetry & Family Relationships in a Few Canadian Poets by Stephanie Yorke • Image: family by bill bissett.

Abstract painting. Image: being longing by bill bissett. Red face on a pale pink background. Links to an article by Anita Dolman.
Leaving the Light On by Anita Dolman • Image detail: being longing
by bill bissett.

Abstract painting. Image detail: suddn by bill bissett. Close-up portrait of human face dark in blue and purple with features emphasized in bright red outlines. Links to an article by sue Sinclair.
Too Pretty To Be In a Wheelchair: On Beauty and Disability by Sue Sinclair • Image detail: suddn by bill bissett.

Abstract painting. Image: goddess carees on by bill bissett. A vibrant orange and gold figure with a face like a ceremonial mask holds a large bird in its arms. Links to an article by Dorothy Bakker.
Notes From a Grieving Mother by Dorothy Bakker • Image: goddess carees on by bill bissett.

Abstract painting. Image detail: 2 face by bill bissett. Close-up red face, its eyes are blank white ovals heavily outlined in dark green lines. Links to an article by Andrew McEwan.
Toward a Poetics of Stuckness: Poetry, Mental Disability, and Crisis by Andrew McEwan • Image detail: 2 face by bill bissett.

Abstract painting. Image detail: dayzees meeting by bill bissett. White flowers with yellowish centres on a bright red background. Links to an article by Sofia Ariza.
The Secret Handshake - A Hidden Gem in Kensington Market by Sofia Ariza • Image detail: dayzees meeting by bill bissett.

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