Reviews

Polar Vortex

There are certain strains of cannabis, which, when vaped, stretch the experience of time to include the distant past, so that one feels they have relived entire lives in an action as brief as washing ... Read More »

April 23, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ The Response of Weeds: A Misplacement of Black Poetry on the Prairies

By Bertrand Bickersteth

“I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of blood in human veins,” writes Langston Hughes in his 1921 poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” “My soul has grown deep like ... Read More »

April 20, 2020 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

I Am Still Your Negro: An Homage to James Baldwin

By Valerie Mason-John

April 20, 2020 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

Here the Dark

By David Bergen

If there's one thread that ties together Here the Dark, David Bergen’s second collection of short fiction, it’s faith: the ways it unites and isolates us, how it complicates and makes sense of our lives. ... Read More »

April 16, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

The Swan Suit

By Katherine Fawcett

April 16, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

The Birth Yard

By Mallory Tater

The harrowing and powerful debut novel from Vancouver writer Mallory Tater begins in September, or, as it is known in the world of the book, Arrival. Sable Ursu has just turned 18. “Everyone on our ... Read More »

April 13, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Midnight Train to Prague

By Carol Windley

There is never a shortage of novels centred on the Second World War. Recent titles have tended to favour stories of brave women (real or imagined) taking to the skies as pilots or toiling as ... Read More »

April 13, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

What Hurts Going Down

By Nancy Lee

Nancy Lee's debut poetry collection covers familiar territory for the B.C. writer. Her book of stories, 2002’s Dead Girls, won accolades for its unflinching depictions of eroticism, violence against women, and the nature of innocence; ... Read More »

April 13, 2020 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

Burning Province

By Michael Prior

It takes a confident poet to include a mention of the climactic scene in Return of the Jedi in the context of an otherwise straightforward lyric poem. It takes a highly confident poet to metaphorize ... Read More »

April 9, 2020 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ Body Count

By Kyla Jamieson

Kyla Jamieson’s debut poetry collection traces the ways trauma manifests within and outside the body. In so doing, the book acts as a mirror onto a world some are unwilling to acknowledge. In “5 Parts ... Read More »

April 9, 2020 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

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