This is a beauty. Nice clean colour cover with contributors names solidly slapped on the back like movie credits. And inside: black and white and full colour art complimenting these textual terrorists – poetry, short fiction, and essays. The Julie Tucker (visual artist) angle is a good one, interviewed and featured throughout, including the excellent cover. (Did I mention the cover is really pretty?) The guide to London bus drivers, complete with pithy and somewhat deranged sketches, was highly entertaining and original. Under one balding bus driver appears this tiny blurb: “Not real good at acknowledging student bus passes. Seems bitter about something. Drives the 2 Dundas.” I liked Framework of a Haunted House by Jason Dickson: “My furniture is made of ancestral bones. It supports my weight and crowds my room when I sleep. A night full with its speech.” Pretty damn good. (NGM)
$3, #9, Jason Dickson (Ed.), 17-433 Dufferin Ave., London, ON N6B 1Z7