The Danforth Review 2.1

Vol. II No. I

September 2000

The Danforth Review

With our second anniversary issue we introduce our new poetry editors, Geoffrey Cook and Shane Neilson. Take a moment to meet them.

This issue's poetry section features the exciting new poet David O'Meara. It also includes review of O'Meara's new book, Storm Still, which our reviewer calls "essentially romantic, tragic, and ironic" as well as "peculiarly Canadian."

REVIEWS, REVIEWS, REVIEWS

Shane Neilson on Mark Anthony Jarman: "Jarman is the preeminent Canadian stylist, surpassing the intellectual hyperpostmodernist, superselfreflective coffee-house navel gazing of Crosbie, Turner, et al. He's a virtuoso performer riffing on drug abuse, muscle cars, the American civil war, and maleness."

Harold Hoefle on Lynn Coady: "Pretend Flann O'Brien was a woman and randy James Joyce had not met Nora Barnacle, then pretend sexual communion and the birth of a girl - that girl would be watchful, scatological, lyric and playful. Lynn Coady."

Ken Sparling on Grant Buday: "Something changes in Golden Goa. Everything changes in Golden Goa. Everything Buday gazes upon - everything this unchanging rock gazes upon - changes with every turn of his gaze. Perhaps Buday can't change. Perhaps none of us can. Perhaps we are what we are."

INTERVIEW: TERENCE M. GREEN, a witness to life

In 1999 Terence M. Green published A Witness to Life, his "incredibly Toronto novel, published in New York". Our reviewer calls it part of "the tradition of great Toronto novels". The Danforth Review talks to him about life, writing and the future.INTERVIEW

THE DANFORTH REVIEW IS EDITED BY MICHAEL BRYSON.

POETRY EDITED BY GEOFFREY COOK AND SHANE NEILSON.