Welcome to The Danforth Review's third issue. Bigger and better than ever.
Heard of the 'Bald-Headed Hermit'? (Hint: think sex.) For a proper definition (and many more) check out our super-duper, much expanded all-Canadian reviews section.
Reviews in this issue include: Barbara Scott's The Quick (right), Robert Fulford's The Triumph of Narrative, Esta Spalding's Lost August: Poems, and books by Erin Moure, Carmine Starnino, rob mclennan, Bill Gaston, Mike Barnes, Christopher Wiseman, Sky Gilbert, Geoffrey Brown and many more. MORE.
INTERVIEWS: Mark Anthony Jarman and rob mclennan
Two first-rate writers report from the front front lines of the literary project in Canada.
- Jarman is the author of the brilliant hockey novel, Salvage King, Ya! A Herky Jerky Picaresque. He has a new collection of short fiction out this spring. JARMAN
- mclennan is an Ottawa-based poet who released three (!) collections in 1999 and won the Canadian Authors Association award for most promising writer under 30. MCLENNAN
EDITORIAL: Educating the Clients - Readers
by Michael Bryson
In the same way that corporate clients tend to see short-term needs while their I.T. Professionals are focused on longer-term goals, readers, critics, booksellers and publishers often have their eye on short-term pleasure or simply the bottom line while writers like to think they are flirting with immortality. MORE