Quill and Quire

By Laura Lush

Laura Lush’s third collection is awash in dualities: it is as much a celebration of life and new beginnings as a metaphysical journey into the notion of endings. The poems constantly switch from ironic to ... Read More »

January 4, 2012 | Filed under: Poetry

By Amanda Jernigan

Amanda Jernigan’s debut poetry collection forwards a critique of contemporary aesthetics and knowledge production. From archaeological excavations in modern-day Tunisia to a stop in the Garden of Eden (en route to the islands of Homer’s ... Read More »

January 4, 2012 | Filed under: Poetry

By Tristan Hughes

“Everyone has always met everyone else in Crooked River. I forget that sometimes.” When Eli O’Callaghan speaks these words in Tristan Hughes’s fourth novel, we understand them to be both a typical sentiment about small ... Read More »

January 4, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

By Dani Couture

Toronto poet Dani Couture’s debut novel begins almost mythically, with 11-year-old Leo Beaudoin falling through river ice in the small mill town of Le Pin, a few hours northwest of Quebec City. The rest of ... Read More »

December 5, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels