Kirby Reviews Terrarium by Matthew Walsh
Posted on October 10, 2024
Words in search of a body: Matthew Walsh’s sophomore turn in Terrarium.
Terrarium, Matthew Walsh. Goose Lane Editions, 2024.
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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.
gillian harding-russell Reviews In The Capital City of Autumn by Tim Bowling
Posted on September 24, 2024
A poet glimpses his soul and mortality: ‘Please return my life of tender purpose to its memory’
In The Capital City of Autumn, Tim Bowling. Wolsak and Wynn, 2024.
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...
Anna Ling Kaye Reviews Denison Avenue by Christina Wong and Daniel Innes
Posted on July 9, 2024
Simple Power: Representation and Resilience in Denison Avenue
Denison Avenue, Christina Wong and Daniel Innes. ECW Press, 2023.
“Lay mang mang, ah See Heeei,” Mrs. Wong’s voice rang out. (Take your time.)
thom vernon Reviews Pervatory by RM Vaughan
Posted on July 4, 2024
Love and Demons thom vernon's review of Pervatory by RM Vaughan. Coach House Books, 2023.
In Pervatory, the posthumously published last novel by the spectacularly talented RM Vaughan (Richard Murray Vaughan), the iconic queer multi-hyphenate (think novelist, poet, filmmaker, critic, essayist, playwright, and visual artist — squirrel saloons made of pizza...
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.
Manahil Bandukwala: Love as a Driving Force. Rewview of A Dream Wants Waking by Lydia Kwa
Posted on April 25, 2024
Love as a Driving Force by Manahil Bandukwala
A Dream Wants Waking, Lydia Kwa. Wolsak & Wynn, 2023
Lydia Kwa’s A Dream Wants Waking promises a dreamlike narrative through its title and cover, and the short novel certainly delivers. The book opens with a list of characters from the past timeline in Tang China from 644-904 CE and the present timeline of Luoyang in 2219 CE. Told through short chapters that switch back and forth at a rapid pace, Kwa immediately immerses the reader into both timelines of the story.
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