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Rough Magic

By Caryl Cude Mullin

Montreal author Caryl Cude Mullin’s newest novel is a riff on Shakespeare’s The Tempest that tells Caliban’s story from cradle to grave. Actually, it starts well before the cradle: in the play, Caliban’s mother, Sycorax, ... Read More »

January 27, 2010

Finn the half-Great

By Theo Caldwell

The stories of Fionn mac Cumhaill (later Anglicized as Finn McCool), mighty hunter and warrior, are one of the cornerstones of Irish mythology, and comprise the epic Fenian Cycle. While Finn the half-Great, the first ... Read More »

January 27, 2010

Could Be

By Heather Cadsby

Could Be is an excellent title for Toronto-based poet Heather Cadsby’s fourth book of poems. Driven by the vocabulary of dreams and the sleep-sense of a somnambulist, Cadsby walks the reader through looming tragedies, misunderstandings, ... Read More »

January 4, 2010 | Filed under: Poetry

Automaton Biographies

By Larissa Lai

The words “four eyes” on the dedication page of Larissa Lai’s first full-length poetry collection telegraph her intentions. Comprising four long, complementary poems, Automaton Biographies reckons with matters of identity and questions what it is ... Read More »

January 4, 2010 | Filed under: Poetry