Issue No. 3
Winter 2023
In its third issue, The Ampersand Review is proud to present a wide variety of poems, short stories, interviews, and reviews of contemporary Canadian literature. This issue includes poetry from poets laureate A.F. Moritz and George Murray, creative nonfiction from Linh S. Nguyen and Ann Yu-Kyung Choi, an exclusive interview with Sheridan writer-in-residence Naben Ruthnum, and much more.
Contents
Poetry
A.F. Moritz
End of Cronos
Hearing from You
Science
History
Victoria mbabazi
Ingest the Second House
Deliverance from the Tenth House
isabella wang
移民1
the patient is a body
this body is
george murray
Morning, Sam…
Fortune
t.liem
MOST DID NOT ASK
WE WERE THE GRATEFUL ONES
terrence abrahams
kitchen still life #1
apartment poem
Fiction
Jessica Westhead
Gary How Does a Contact Form Work Do I Just Type in Here
and Then Press Send and That’s It?
Ann Yu-Kyung Choi
Linh S. Nguyen
Swan Lake
Saad omar khan
The Paper Birch
Features
Naben Ruthnum
Horror, Television, Pseudonyms, and Novels: Will the real Naben Ruthnum please stand up!
House of Anansi press, baseline press, and gap riot press
Three Short Interviews with Independent Presses
Reviews
jacob alvarado
emily breitkopf
Toronto, I Love You by Didier Leclair
paul vermeersch
Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems by Dionne Brand
tali voron
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu
Marcus Medford
This Has Always Been a War: The Radicalization of a Working-Class Queer by Lori Fox