The Waking Comes Late

Many Canadian fiction writers started out as poets. Rarer are people like Michael Crummey and Steven Heighton, who write poetry and prose in tandem. A grim warning: only a few of the greatest writers (Thomas ... Read More »

April 13, 2016 | Filed under: Poetry

Barking and Biting: The Poetry of Sina Queyras

By Sina Queyras; Erin Wunker (ed.)

Barking and Biting: The Poetry of Sina Queyras is the Laurier Poetry Series’s 24th publication since its inception in 2004. The LPS monographs, with their survey-length selections, critical introductions, and authors’ afterwords, seem tailored for ... Read More »

April 11, 2016 | Filed under: Poetry

The Memento

By Christy Ann Conlin

Fourteen years have passed since Christy Ann Conlin wowed readers and critics alike with Heave, her debut novel about an independent, hard-drinking woman on the Bay of Fundy coast. Conlin returns to this setting with ... Read More »

April 11, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Black Coat

By Neamat Imam

It is a testament to the relatively placid temperament of the Canadian state that political fiction in this country tends to tilt either in the direction of Wayne Johnston’s myth-making or Terry Fallis’s broad comedy. ... Read More »

April 11, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Angel’s Jig

By Daniel Poliquin; Wayne Grady (trans.)

Slavery was abolished in Canada in 1834, but in the years between 1875 and 1925 (roughly), orphans and indigent seniors in parts of New Brunswick were regularly auctioned off as unpaid servants – slaves, in ... Read More »

April 11, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Principles to Live By

By David Adams Richards

Grounded in the Christian doctrine of self-sacrifice and original sin, the unflinching moral vision of David Adams Richards has set his work in opposition to the relativist, humanist worldview espoused by the majority of Canadian ... Read More »

April 5, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ We’re All In This Together

By Amy Jones

Some writers who begin their careers writing short fiction have a difficult time transitioning to the broader art of novel construction. The two forms, though seemingly similar, are in fact as distinct from one another ... Read More »

April 5, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Hunting for the Mississippi

By Camille Bouchard; Peter McCambridge (trans.)

When 12-year-old Eustache Bréman, the unworldly and wide-eyed narrator of Camille Bouchard’s Hunting for the Mississippi, boards a ship bound for Louisiana, he’s filled with hope. The year is 1684, and he’s been promised that ... Read More »

April 4, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Big Kids

By Michael DeForge

While Michael DeForge’s early work set his freakish, often hilarious tales of growing up and discovering a sense of self in bizarre alternate realities, Big Kids features the Toronto-based comics artist’s closest approximation of the ... Read More »

April 4, 2016

★ Flannery

By Lisa Moore

Flannery is 16. She has spent her whole life in an East Coast town so small she attended Happy Kids daycare with practically every one of her current classmates. One of them in particular makes ... Read More »

April 4, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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