Often Overlooked: An Introspective Poet
The Essential Elizabeth Brewster, selected Ingrid Ruthig. The Porcupine Quill, 2021.
Betwixt and Between
All the Quiet Places, Brian Thomas Isaac. Brindle & Glass, 2021.
Brian Thomas Isaac’s first novel, All the Quiet Places, describes the early life of Eddie Toma. Eddie lives with his mother Grace and younger brother Lewis on the Okanagan Indian Reserve in Southern British Columbia’s rural interior.
Fragments of eternity
Ruins of the Heart, Six Longpoems, Kristjana Gunnars. Angelico Press, 2022.
Enjoy a sneak peak from the upcoming Summer Creative Nonfiction Issue! Read Warren Heiti's review of Forty-One Pages: On Poetry, Language and Wilderness by John Steffler.
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Enjoy a sneak peak from the upcoming Summer Creative Nonfiction Issue! Read Susan Haley's review of Approaching Fire by Michelle Porter and Wreck, a very anxious memoir by Kelley Jo Burke.
Don't forget to pre-order your copy of the Summer Creative Nonfiction Issue today!
The Human Cost
Horseplay: My Time Undercover on the Granville Strip, Norm Boucher. NeWest Press, 2020
David Folster was a journalist, social historian, and heritage and conservation activist from Fredericton, New Brunswick. He wrote for a wide assortment of magazines and newspapers including the Globe and Mail, Maclean's, Sports Illustrated, Canadian Geographic, and the Christian Science Monitor. He was a frequent contributor to CBC Radio and Television programs. He is also the author of The Great Trees of New Brunswick and The Chocolate Ganongs of St. Stephen, New Brunswick, a narrative history of the business that was shortlisted for the 1990 Canadian Business Book of the Year Award.
A Song of Despair or Hope?
As Far as You Know, A. F. Moritz. Anansi, 2020
Nothing into Nothing
I Will Be Corrupted, Joseph A. Dandurand. Guernica Editions, 2020.
In the poem, “Whisper from you,” Joseph Dandurand rants about “one ass of an editor” (this is in the very last poem of this fine collection and presumably there for a reason), who tells him he should “add some imagery to [his] work.” I actually laughed out loud.
Last Things
Field Requiem, Sheri Benning, Carcanet, 2022
