The Capilano Review

The Capilano Review is a biannual journal of contemporary writing and visual art based in Vancouver, Canada. Dedicated to experimentation across boundaries, forms, and contexts—with particular emphasis on promoting dialogue between the literary and visual arts—each issue of the Review features innovative poetry, fiction, essays, interviews, criticism, art sections, and artists’ projects by both emerging and established writers and artists working at the leading edge of their fields.

The work collected in each issue is critically and socially engaged, playful and language-oriented, and rigorously interdisciplinary. Originally founded in 1972 at Capilano College in North Vancouver, The Capilano Review has operated as an independent, not-for-profit publication since 2015. Its award-winning literary contributors include Jordan Abel, D.M. Bradford, Dionne Brand, Liz Howard, Canisia Lubrin, Daphne Marlatt, Erín Moure, Cecily Nicholson, Michael Ondaatje, Fred Wah, and Ian Williams, among many others. 

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like making a tailored jacket out of tea towels

—Anne Low

Issue 4.3 Real Materials is the first art-focused issue of The Capilano Review in nearly a decade, re-upping an ethos of deep thinking, close making. It engages a variety of artists working today to ask: What are the real materials with which you work? What material conditions guide, inform, or sustain your making? The contributors to this issue centre modes of listening to and learning from materials, modelling how curiosity, humility, and sensitivity to lesser determined, furtive forms of knowledge can serve to powerfully reorient our relationships to each other, our environments, and ourselves.

Featuring an artist project by Anne Low and accompanying conversation with Art Editor Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross on artistic research, process, and craft; an image folio of recent drawings by Atheana Picha and conversation between Atheana Picha, mentor Aaron Nelson-Moody, and curator Emily Dundas Oke on material practices, lineages, and relationships; an image folio of new textile works by Laura Grier; new painting folios by Nadya Isabella and Les Ramsay; a conversation between past editors Pierre Coupey, Jenny Penberthy, and Dorothy Jantzen on the legacy of Ann Rosenberg, former Editor of Visual Media; a review of Liz Magor’s recent collection of writings by Yasmine Whaley-Kalora; and new poetry by Saif Alsaegh, Alison Bosley, Rob Macaisa Colgate, Tina Do, Cristina Holman, Lee Suksi, Ruoyu Wang, and ryan fitzpatrick.