Malahat Review 199 (Summer 2017) Digital Edition

Begin your beach reading with Long Poem Prize winners: John Wall Barger travels to Bangkok in “Smog Mother”; Délani evokes Métis experience in “No Buffalos.” After applying sunblock, lounge on Mark Jacquemain’s “Island”; find shade under Robert Finley’s “The Beech Tree” or in Sadiqa de Meijer’s “City, Lake; ” fish for memories in Gena Ellett’s “Heaven”; peel potatoes in “Adrick Brock’s “The Bull Cook”;  feed on poems in Shashi Bhat’s “Food for Nought.” Cool down with poems by J. Mark Smith and Susan Olding and reviews of books by M. Travis Lane, Jen Sookfong Lee, and Simon Roy.