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FORMER EDITOR Dorothy Jantzen holds up a copy of The Capilano
Review, Canada’s longest running literary journal produced by a college.
With its 50th issue, The Review launched the first issue of its second
series. Seen in the background is managing editor Leslie Savage (left) and
founding editor Pierre Coupey.

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THE CAPILANO REVIEW

Long-running journal
enjoys 2nd incarnation

PIERRE COUPEY isn’t a Christian fundamentalist. But he

and his ‘‘bible,”’
again.

After 50 issues and 18 years, the
longest running journal of its kind
in Canada is enjoying a new life —
and its founding editor, Coupey, is
back to head up the second incar-
nation of his beloved magazine
after a 13-year absence.

“I wasn't sure if 1 wanted to do
it at first,’ he recalls, ‘‘but
Dorothy (Jantzen, the magazine's
immediate past editor), was burned
our and ! didn’t want to see it
die.*’

Coupey didn’t want to see The
Review die because it was his baby.
From nothing, he brought it up to
what Peter C. Newman described
as the ‘‘handsomest magazine in
Canada."'

In addition to a sleek look, The
Review's mandate has always been
to publish quality work from the
world’s leading literary figures, as
well as photographers and visual

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artists — but not to the exclusion
of new artists. ‘‘We don’t publish
people’s work because they are
famous,”’ explains Jantzen, ‘We
publish what is good.”’

Contributors to The Review
have run the gamut — from un-
published budding artists to the
well-established: Margaret At-
wood, Joyce Caro! Oates, Earl
Birney, George Bowering, Michael
Ondaatje and Jack Shadbolt.

A five-time award winning
publication, Coupey says he
receives vast amounts of submis-
sions sometimes five manu-
scripis a day — 95 per cent of
which get rejected because of the
magazine’s exceptionally high
standards.

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‘*We don't have a written set of
criteria,’’ explains Coupey, *‘We
have that nebulous criteria of ex-
cellence, and we're not going to
define it more than that."’

Unique to Canadian publishing

The Review's policy of
publishing literature and = art
without criticism. ‘‘The act must
speak for itself. That's one of the
principles we've stuck to,” says
Jantzen.

While most magazines and liter-
ary journals have had bumpy lives,
The Capilano Review has remain-
ed stable artistically despite the
different vision of four editors:
Coupey, Bill Schermbrucker, Ann
Rosenburg and Jantzen.

It has won four national maga-
zine awards, and, last year, the
Canadian Studies Association
award.

**No one can say we’ve become
repetitive or academic, says
Coupey, who co-founded The

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