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Shannon Webb-Campbell Reviews I Met Death & Sex Through My Friend, Thom Meuley by thom vernon

Posted on October 2, 2024

thom vernon invites readers to meet sex and death

I Met Death & Sex Through My Friend, Tom Meuley, thom vernon. Guernica Editions, 2024.

Wildly audacious. Hilarious yet devastating. Punchy and raw. I’ve never read a novel like thom vernon’s I Met Death & Sex Through My Friend, Tom Meuley. As a novelist, vernon breaks all the rules because he knows them. It’s why the story leaps off the page. This novel begs to be a film, and I shouldn’t be surprised considering vernon’s backstory of being an actor-turned-writer.

Janet Pollock Millar Reviews Your Body Was Made For This by Debbie Bateman

Posted on September 25, 2024

Reckoning and Reclaiming

Your Body Was Made For This, Debbie Bateman, Ronsdale Press, 2023.

Vancouver Island writer Debbie Bateman’s first collection of short stories, Your Body Was Made for This, follows in the tradition of Margaret Laurence’s unforgettable Hagar Shipley and Sharon Butala’s older women protagonists. Midlife presents an opportunity for the characters to reckon with and reclaim their lives, and Bateman’s collection of linked short stories explores older women’s experiences of their own bodies and their relationships.

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...

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