The Capilano Review

The Capilano Review
Categories Literary magazine, Canadian culture
Frequency 3 issues
Circulation 800
First issue 1972
Company The Capilano Press Society
Country Canada
Language Canadian English
Website thecapilanoreview.ca
ISSN 0315-3754

The Capilano Review (TCR) is a Canadian tri-annual literary magazine located and published in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and is based at the North Vancouver campus of Capilano University. A member of the Canadian Magazine Publishers Association, Magazine Association of BC,[1] and the Alliance for Arts and Culture,[2] it publishes avant-garde experimental poetry, visual arts, interviews, and essays. The magazine features works by both Canadian and international writers and artists.

Publication History

The Capilano Review was founded by Pierre Coupey in 1972[3][4][5] and entered its 40th year in 2012.

Notable special issues:

Notable Contributors

Past collaborators include novelist Michael Ondaatje, artist and filmmaker Jack Chambers, artist Roy Kiyooka, architect Arthur Erickson, and poet bill bissett. More recently, special issues have included works of Lisa Robertson, Daphne Marlatt, Eliot Weinberger, Rodrigo Toscano, and artist/photographers Marian Penner Bancroft, Christos Dikeakos, and Robert Keziere.

Recognition

"The Capilano Review has, for over thirty years, provided a measure to the innovative and contemporary and a productive site for a generation of literary and artistic boundary walkers. Its editors have provoked and sustained the imagination and possibility for a wide range of writers and artists. The TCR is a crucial voice to the continuing surge of west coast and Canadian culture." - Fred Wah

The publication itself has, since 1978, received numerous awards: eight gold and silver awards for fiction and poetry from The National Magazine Foundation, one Journey Prize, two Western Magazine Awards, and one Association for Canadian Studies Award of Merit in recognition of contributions to the development of Canadian Studies.

TCR contributors have been included among the Griffin Poetry Prize nominees and winners – Christian Bök, George Bowering, Erìn Moure, August Kleinzahler, Sylvia Legris, Robin Blaser, Ken Babstock, Roo Borson, Di Brandt, Robert Bringhurst, Nicole Brossard, Robert Majzels, David McFadden, Don McKay. The Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, one of the annual BC Book Prizes, has included amongst its nominees and winners several TCR contributors, such as George Bowering, Meredith Quartermain, Steve Collis, Ken Belford, Fred Wah, Larissa Lai, Daphne Marlatt, George Stanley, Sharon Thesen, Rita Wong, among others.

References

  1. ↑ Magazines. Capilano Review
  2. ↑ Members
  3. ↑ Wynne Francis. "The Expanding Spectrum" (Book Chapter). Canadian Literature. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  4. ↑ Eugene Benson; L.W. Conolly (30 November 2004). Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. Routledge. p. 897. ISBN 978-1-134-46848-5. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
  5. ↑ Deborah Dundas (23 April 2015). "Brave new world for Canada’s literary journals". Toronto Star. Retrieved 1 November 2015.

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