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Awards, etc.
Praise from our readers and writers:Among Canadian literary magazines, The Capilano Review is a leader and a groundbreaker. Its editors have been consistently visionary, its design elegant and its content (both graphic art and literary) breath-taking, provocative, and passionate. It is impossible to imagine the literary culture of Western Canada without the communities of writers and artists the Review has fostered during its astonishing 35-year run. Meredith Quartermain (October 2007) Yr mail jarred me back to 1974 to Peregrine Books, where the first "books" I bought on moving to Vancouver were 3 issues or so of The Cap Review. Exciting, cover to cover reading, not the usual mag snoresville... I thought life had changed utterly! ---Erin Moure (March 2006) 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 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 (February 2006) The Capilano Review 2:44: One of the standards of progressive writing in Canada, The Capilano Review has been publishing since the 1970s, and surrounded by editors and contributors such as founding editor Pierre Coupey, Sharon Thesen, Brian Fawcett, Barry McKinnon, Daphne Marlatt, George Bowering, and others. . . . What I've really been finding interesting about recent issues of The Capilano Review is the fact that they've been including fascinating and meaty interviews by local Vancouver writers of Capilano College writers-in-residence, starting with an interview with August Kleinzahler (conducted by Mark Cochrane) in issue 2:42 . . . and most recently with Peter Quartermain (conducted by Andrew Klobucar) in the new issue. . . . The interview talks about poetry in general, including Quartermain's interest in the works of Robert Creeley, William Carlos Williams, and the British poet Basil Bunting, who he was able to host for a while in Vancouver. . . . Other parts of the issue included poetry by Calgary's ryan fitzpatrick, Toronto writer Stuart Ross' hilarious "Dear Heidi Fleiss" piece, and selections from Clint Burnham's Smoke Show. - rob mclennan (January 2006) I have never felt so satisfied with the appearance of my work in a magazine. It has been beautifully laid out on the page, the page itself is beautiful (the paper), the typeface is beautiful. The company my poems keep in this issue is beautiful. For some reason, publishing these poems in The Capilano Review feels as enlivening as publishing an entire book of poems. -- John Barton I wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed the issue my five little stories appeared in. The Cap Review is perhaps the only journal around to which I would apply the word 'elegant.' -- Bill Gaston TCR is a beautiful journal and it was definitely a thrill to have been offered that much space. I don't think I've ever felt more like a "writer" (whatever that is supposed to feel like). -- Michael Crummey An image of the world as of now. Beautiful . . . I can see the extraordinary care with which each issue is handled, obviously a labour of love. --- Warren Tallman I don't know of any other magazine which gives a writer such special treatment. Every issue is as permanent as a book and better produced than most. --- Jack Hodgins |
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