The November/For more than a decade, the publishing teams at Insomniac Press and The Mercury Press brought you Word as a free tabloid. Word provides a much-needed service to the Canadian literary scene, including reviews, comment and opinion. Word's writers and reviewers are among the most insightful and entertaining in the country.

Word's six content-heavy, thought-provoking issues per year appear as PDF files, easy to read online, free to the public and simple to print. Subscribers will receive the Word Reader, packed with the best articles, reviews and writing about the world of books. The Word Reader is published three times per year, issues appearing as Winter/Spring, Summer, and Fall. Word's Toronto literary calendar of events appears online monthly as PDF files. December 2006 issue of Word: Canada's Magazine for Readers + Writers is available online. This issue features...

1. Hors d'oeuvres: Une canadienne errante by Maggie Helwig
2. Towards words after "an afterward after words: notes towards a concrete poetic": kevin macpherson eckhoff reviews fractal economies by derek beaulieu
3. Reading Cock-eyed: M. Wayne Cunningham reviews Cock-eyed by Ryan Knighton
4. Wrapping up the Lex wrapup: there's much work to be done by Bill Kennedy
5. What is poetry?: Fun with 'pataphysics (Ages 1 to Ethernity) by Sharon Harris

The January 2007 Toronto literary calendar, a monthly supplement to Word, is online. It's bursting with fantastic literary events; check it out today!

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