Reviews

Qaf’s People

Qaf’s People marks Sadiqa de Meijer’s return to poetry after the 2020 Governor General’s Award–winning memoir alfabet / alphabet. In Qaf’s People, the poet laureate of Kingston, Ontario, resurfaces questions about diaspora, belonging, identity, language, ... Read More »

April 22, 2026 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ The Tinder Sonnets

By Jennifer LoveGrove

The Tinder Sonnets by Jennifer LoveGrove has everything I want from a book of poetry. Needle-sharp metaphors and language play. Immersive imagery that assaults your senses and makes you forget you’re reading a book. A ... Read More »

April 15, 2026 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

In Crow’s Field

By Judith Thompson

Ana Burns is lying in a field of mustard flowers, “stoned on Windowpane acid,” her mind drifting back and forth through a series of horrific events from her childhood. Now 17 years old, Ana is ... Read More »

April 15, 2026 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Spying on America

By Bill Gaston

With his new book Spying on America, B.C. writer and retired writing professor Bill Gaston chronicles an almost two-week, early-summer car journey “through a bunch of red states, during Covid, between two Trumps.” Despite the ... Read More »

April 8, 2026 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews, Travel

Weird Babies

By Jaclyn Desforges

Pleasure and danger commingle within the pages of Weird Babies, the striking and provocative fiction debut by RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award–winning poet and children’s author Jaclyn Desforges. So do realism and the absurd. Over ... Read More »

April 8, 2026 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ The Wren

By A.F. Moritz

A.F. Moritz’s The Wren is a book of Zen koans written by an urban monk posing as a poet. Suggestive of a reflective period after facing health concerns, the poems bypass ordinary logic to flirt ... Read More »

April 1, 2026 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ Interposition

By Kaie Kellough

An apparently throwaway line at the end of Kaie Kellough’s acknowledgements provides a key to unlocking his latest book of poetry: “These acknowledgements were written while watching snow fall in Kingston, Ontario, listening to Lester ... Read More »

March 25, 2026 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

The Caretaker

By Marcus Kliewer

In the summer of 2024, Vancouver-based writer Marcus Kliewer received a lot of coverage for his debut novel. Initially published in a different, abbreviated form on the r/nosleep subreddit, where it was an audience favourite, ... Read More »

March 18, 2026 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Closing Act

By Chris W. Kim

In Jon Claytor’s graphic novel Nowhere, a young boy finds himself stranded in Beauséjour, a small town that seems cursed with every manner of paranormal activity: zombies roam the streets at night, demonic landlords seek ... Read More »

March 11, 2026 | Filed under: Graphica, Reviews