First outing for this Alberta litzine yields a pretty accomplished batch of poems and one story. Nancy Kang ruminates on the violent nature of the boy. Fred Wah is precise in his evocation of the seasons – “X equals/some frosty road taken”. There’s a decidedly distanced tone to this zine until Kiki Bonbon’s “Alanis” takes over, a conversation between two young women skewering celebrity and mall life while on break from their jobs at the Bay. (HN)
litzine, #1, 32 pages, $4, Lindsay Tipping (ed.), #103-416 7th St NW, Calgary, AB, T2N 1S4