Reviews

Walt Whitman’s Secret

Frequent Q&Q reviewer George Fetherling’s third novel is an intriguing look at one of America’s most influential poets. The novel focuses on the last years of Whitman’s life as observed by his real-life friend Horace ... Read More »

March 29, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Patient Frame

By Steven Heighton

Patient Frame is Kingston-based poet, fiction writer, and essayist Steven Heighton’s fifth collection of poems. As readers of his work have come to expect, this book has tremendous range, covering subjects both personal and political, ... Read More »

March 22, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Girl Crazy

By Russell Smith

Writing about sex can be a tricky affair. The sexual act (and its corresponding emotional components) is both intimate and ridiculous, and if not approached with wit and grace, can appear absolutely ludicrous (see, for ... Read More »

March 15, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Penalty Killing

By Michael McKinley

Fans of the Toronto Maple Leafs will find much to relate to in Michael McKinley’s debut sports mystery. The Continental Hockey League stands in for the NHL and the hapless New York St. Patricks are ... Read More »

March 8, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Never More There

By Stephen Rowe

Never More There is Newfoundland-based school teacher Stephen Rowe’s first collection of poems. In many ways, it is a typical debut, featuring poems of family history, quotidian observations, formal experiments, and nods to literary models ... Read More »

February 25, 2010 | Filed under: Poetry

Wait Until Late Afternoon

By David Bateman and Hiromi Goto

Like conceptual artwork, Wait Until Late Afternoon, a book-length poem in two voices, requires some contextual explanation before its intent and effect can be fully appreciated. In what amounts to an artist’s statement printed on ... Read More »

February 25, 2010 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Windstorm

By Joe Denham

B.C.-based fisherman and timber framer Joe Denham caused a stir with his first poetry collection, Flux, in 2003. The book garnered considerable critical acclaim and Denham’s poems were widely anthologized. Even so, in a 2004 ... Read More »

February 25, 2010 | Filed under: Poetry

Jew and Improved: How Choosing to Be Chosen Made Me a Better Man

By Benjamin Errett

Benjamin Errett’s memoir about his conversion to Judaism upon becoming engaged to a Jewish woman has at its centre a potentially interesting subject, but the author squanders opportunities to explore his spiritual journey in any ... Read More »

February 25, 2010 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Toby: A Man

By Todd Babiak

The son of two marginally successful hot dog vendeurs in the Montreal suburb of Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Toby Ménard is the perfect gentleman. So perfect, in fact, that his face can be seen smiling down from billboards ... Read More »

February 25, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Spice Necklace: A Food-lover’s Caribbean Adventure

By Ann Vanderhoof

If there is a common element to travel writing, it is the obsessive quest to capture the authenticity of the cultures and locations being described. The Spice Necklace, best-selling author Ann Vanderhoof’s chronicle of the ... Read More »

February 25, 2010 | Filed under: Food & Drink

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