The second issue of 17 seconds: a journal of poetry + poetics is up and out. This issue contains:
- Joe in the Balkans: an interview with Joe Blades – by Tatjana Bijelic
- Conversations with John Newlove – by Carla Comellini
- Horologic – a poem by Kathleen Fraser
- surveillance of LECTURE: excerpt from a work-in-progress – by Kathleen Fraser
- An Interview with Dennis Cooley – by Sean Moreland
- ‘in the estuary’ and ‘funereal relief re-lives’ – two poems by Pearl Pirie
- Love, Anne Carson: a fictional essay in the wrong order – by rob mclennan
About the magazine, (edited by rob mclennan with Roland Prevost as managing editor):
seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry + poetics comes out as the natural extension of the eight issues of Poetics.ca edited by rob mclennan and Stephen Brockwell. Highlighting the diversity of voice, style, practice and politic, seventeen seconds continues the resolve to provide a forum for dialogue on contemporary poetics, with a focus on Canadian writing.
Over the past two decades, the amount of critical writing published in print literary journals on Canadian poetry, specifically, seems to have decreased dramatically, but slowly returned through a number of online journals. seventeen seconds simply wishes to help strengthen the dialogue and the ongoing conversation about writing through publishing new writing, and conversation about new writing. How else are we supposed to learn anything, unless we keep talking?
Feedback and submission queries are most welcome. az421 (at) freenet (dot) carleton (dot) ca