Anne-Marie Turza’s debut collection hits like a shock of black river water. Its combination of chilling imagery and stark sentiment stings in the best possible way. The title piece is broken into three parts, divided ... Read More »
April 16, 2014 | Filed under: Poetry
Toronto writer Jill Jorgenson has infused her first collection of poetry with a gentle and beguiling gracefulness. The book opens with “Daybreak Suite,” a group of four poems that beautifully sets the tone for the ... Read More »
April 16, 2014 | Filed under: Poetry
The Modernist tradition does not exert a powerful influence over Canadian literature. Although this country boasts a number of important Modernist writers – F.R. Scott, Ralph Gustafson, Dorothy Livesay, and Earle Birney among them – ... Read More »
April 14, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
The first two entries in ECW Press’s new Pop Classics series – short, informal examinations of various pop culture phenomena – traverse a broad gap between nihilistic pseudo-porn satire and human-sized adolescent warrior turtles. At ... Read More »
April 7, 2014 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture
The first two entries in ECW Press’s new Pop Classics series – short, informal examinations of various pop culture phenomena – traverse a broad gap between nihilistic pseudo-porn satire and human-sized adolescent warrior turtles. At ... Read More »
April 7, 2014 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture
While the digital era has ushered in significant changes to the way we communicate, the triumphalist message emerging from Silicon Valley and other tech strongholds tends to shunt aside serious discussion about the repercussions of ... Read More »
March 24, 2014 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
Following 2011’s Why Not? Fifteen Reasons to Live, which was nominated for the inaugural Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-fiction, Ray Robertson returns with a novel that considers themes of death, loss, and self-harm, ... Read More »
March 17, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
To read poetry is to be implicated in the scandal of its creation. The poet writes lines, directs the movement, but it’s the reader’s imagination that resolves the poem. This is readily apparent in these ... Read More »
March 13, 2014 | Filed under: Poetry
In Writing with Grace, Vancouver’s Judy McFarlane addresses issues of intellectual disability and what it means to be a writer. Although the young woman McFarlane mentors self-identifies as Cinderella-Princess-Grace, the rest of the world is ... Read More »
March 13, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
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