Samizdat Press presents:

Hamilton Arts & Letters magazine
issue five.1 Spring/Summer 2012
4th ANNIVERSARY ISSUE

Now enjoy HA&L issue five.1 Contact: Cosmos

Featuring:

A Precarious Convergence of Light:
The Photography of Peter Karuna
by Simon Orpana

Susan Dobson, Retail by Anna Cox

Milton Acorn In a Springtime Instant: Selected Poems
with An Introduction by James Deahl

Why Must We Die? An Introduction Part III
by John Terpstra

PART IV: Was Edward Roper a Hamilton Artist?
by Jim Burant





Poetry
by Judith Fitzgerald

Neon Promises
by James A. Chambers

Portfolio: Gairloch Gardens
by Cees & Annerie van Gemerden

Coleridge: off-shoots, splinters & iridescent Neddle-shafts
by J.S. Porter

Poetry by Jeff Seffinga

[An excerpt from "Horse Camp", a memoir]
FARZAD AND THE FIREFLIES
by JonArno Lawson

Portfolio: Moonrise
by Susan Dobson





Hakan Temuçin, κóσμος
by Jessica McCarrel

Portfolio: An East Wind
by Ryan Szulc

Portfolio by Irena Komandinic

The Accidental Book Collector by Robert Rankin

Visual Aid: A History Together
by Vesna Trkulja-Stevens & Peter Stevens

Performance: Enzo Minarelli, Polypoetry 1982-83

Also Featuring:
Painted by Harriet Lye
Held & Holding by Tings Chak
Getting to the Bottom of You by Julie Berry
Wild Colonial Boy - The Last Sing-Song by Aileen Depaul
Bibliomania 9 [9] by Mark Mavrinac

issue five.1 is sponsored by:
HMECU I Wolsak & Wynn I the Hamilton Film & Television Office I Photography for Artists I Tucker Rubber Stamps & Fountain Pens I Vik-bib I Pier 8 Group I and our friends at Bryan Prince Bookseller I We've got your back, mates.

HA&L acknowledges the generous support of the
Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.


Now enjoy HA&L issue five.1 Contact: Cosmos

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HA&L
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Art Director: Peter Stevens
Associate Editor & Designer: Fiona Kinsella
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current & past contributors:
Peter Abbot . Milton Acorn . Wayne Allan . Michael Allgoewer . Joseph Anderson . Debra Antoncic . Jason Avery . Martha Baillie . Julie Berry . Bibliothèque et Archives Canada . Ferdinado Bilanzola . Vikram Bondai . King Biscuit Boy . David Brace . Stephen Broomer . Frank Buchwald . Jim Burant . Judi Burgess . Catherine Carmichael . Tings Chak .. Jim Chambers . David Cohen . David Collier . Daniel Coleman . Sally Copper . Anna Cox . Jeff Crouch . Paul Cvetich . Aileen Depaul . James Deahl . Susan Dobson . Lalie Douglas . Pat Eaves . Bruce Elder . Linda Fallon of Shakespeare & Company, Paris . Judith Fitzgerald . Conrad Furey . Meghan M. Garr . Bart Gazzola . Cees & Annerie van Gemerden . Tim Gibbons . Eliza Griffiths . Regina Haggo . Iris Häussler . Donna Ibing . Bryce Kanbara . Peter Karuna . Frank Kerr . John Kinsella . Sara Knelman . Irena Komandinic . Karen Krzyzewski . Travis Kurowski . Richard Landon . Dorothee Lang . JonArno Lawson . Norma West Linder . Samara Leibner . Tor Lukasik Foss . Harriet Lye . Jeff Mahoney . Mr. Harry Marshall of Mount Hope . Robert Mason . Mark Mavrinac . Jessica McCarrel . Ian McLean . Anna J. McIntyre . Jane McQuitty . Sebastian Mendes . Caroline Moran . Kåthe von Nagy . Kim Neudorf . Richard Newell, 1944-2003 . Robert Oldham . Simon Orpana . Rui Pimenta . J. S. Porter . Bryan Prince . Andrea Rabinovitch . Sima Rabinowitz . Robert Rankin . Greg Rennick . Simon Richards . Samuel Isaac Robinson . Paul Ropel-Morski . Edward Roper . Bernadette Rule . Jeff Seffinga . Lee Sharkey . William Simpson . Endre Szkárosi . Ryan Szulc . Hakan Temuçin . John Terpstra . Priscila Uppal . Stephanie Vegh . Frankie Venom . f.ward . George Wallace . Jackie Washington . John C. Weaver . Wim Wenders . Robert Clark Yates .