Kirby Reviews Unwashed by Daniel Maluka
Posted on January 14, 2025
The Power of Sayin’ it Plain in Daniel Maluka’s Unwashed
Unwashed, Daniel Maluka. Mawenzi House, 2024.
“I had things to draw.”
Poetry
Robert Colman Reviews She by Kirby
Posted on January 14, 2025
Emotional Connection Contends with Cultural Shifts
D.A. Lockhart Reviews The Big Melt by Emily Riddle
Posted on January 14, 2025
Familiar and Unfamiliar in Our Collective Reclamations
Excerpt from "I Never Thought It All to be Calculable" by Gillian Sze
Posted on January 10, 2025
Excerpt from Issue 302 (Winter 2025)
"I Never Thought It All to be Calculable" by Gillian Sze
A poem can never be too dark.
— Arthur Sze (“Unpacking a Globe”)
I gaze at the stream ribboning the curb,
confess to the dark stained thaw,
to the sun dribbling from the eaves,
that I am imperfect.
It’s just my breath amid the trembling twigs
An Interview with Petra Chambers
Posted on December 19, 2024
Editorial Assistant Miriam Richer Interviews Petra Chambers whose three poems appear in Issue 301 (Autumn 2024)
Miriam Richer: All three of your poems, in one sense or another, are about the speaker’s relationship to the past—revisiting a childhood home, reminiscing about adolescence, identifying with a rescue animal’s inscrutable history. How does the passage of time figure into your poetry?
Jennifer Houle Reviews Entre Rive and Shore by Dominique Bernier-Cormier
Posted on July 16, 2024
To kiss the hybrid future à travers un voile
Entre Rive and Shore, Dominique Bernier-Cormier. icehouse poetry, 2023.
Tout d’abord: wow. These were the first words that came to mind en mijotant sur how and where to begin a review of Dominique Bernier-Cormier’s multigenre, multi-temporal and dimensional, highly allusive, bilingual+ Entre Rive and Shore...
Robert Colman Reviews Precedented Parroting by Barbara Tran
Posted on June 27, 2024
(Re)framing a Fragmented Biography
Precedented Parroting, Barbara Tran. Palimpsest Press, 2024.
How does one write one’s history when facts run fleet? How does one frame a biography when names and languages exist as disparate fragments, and community acceptance is seemingly conditional? These are the questions that populate Barbara Tran’s remarkable poetry debut, Precedented Parroting.
Rebecca Geleyn Reviews Building a Nest from the Bones of My People by Cara-Lyn Morgan
Posted on June 27, 2024
Alive through the Ghosts of the Past
Building a Nest from the Bones of My People, Cara-Lyn Morgan. Invisible Publishing, 2023.
Stop! Look! Listen! Andrea Hubley's Reading Recommendation
Posted on May 28, 2024
A book I find myself returning to is Maggie Burton’s poetry collection, Chores. Captivating from the opening lines, with uncomplicated language and vivid, visceral images, Burton revisits the day-to-day events of domestic life and women’s labour that are often overlooked. Bringing tenderness to the struggles of survival, these poems stir up nostalgia for home and beloved grandmothers.
An Interview with Contest Winner Jaeyun Yoo
Posted on May 9, 2024
Editorial Assistant Jamie Kitts' Interview with Jaeyun Yoo whose poem "have you seen my father" won our 2023 Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize and was published in Issue 299 (Spring 2024)
Jaeyun Yoo is a Korean-Canadian poet, psychiatrist, and graduate of Simon Fraser University’s The Writer’s Studio. A Best of the Net nominee, her poems have appeared in Room, Canthius, CV2, and elsewhere. She published a collaborative chapbook, Brine, with Harbour Centre 5, a collective of emerging poets.
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Current Issue: No. 302
