Rob Winger’s It Doesn’t Matter What We Meant and Evie Christie’s Mere Extinction are the latest contributions to a genre I’m calling GTA pastoral. Each offers lyric meditations on a gritty urban present populated by, ... Read More »
To say that Steven Heighton has done well for himself over his nearly 40-year career is a bit of an understatement. In both poetry and fiction, Heighton’s rise to royalty in the CanLit world has ... Read More »
Larissa Lai’s latest book is a masterful long poem that spins in and out of chaos and order, charting the movement of the Furies, the three Greco-Roman goddesses of vengeance and retribution. Joy is enjambed ... Read More »
We Dream Medicine Dreams, by author, artist, and bioethicist Lisa Boivin, a member of the Deninu K’ue First Nation in the Northwest Territories, is a moving and insightful picture book honouring the enduring relationship between ... Read More »
March 29, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
We Dream Medicine Dreams, by author, artist, and bioethicist Lisa Boivin, a member of the Deninu K’ue First Nation in the Northwest Territories, is a moving and insightful picture book honouring the enduring relationship between ... Read More »
March 29, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
Harry and her hare siblings are out for a walk when their unsuspecting parents are duped and devoured by a coyote. Destitute and with a newly empty bedroom in the house, the kids convert the ... Read More »
March 25, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
In her debut collection, A Number of Stunning Attacks, Jessi MacEachern creates poetry within individual words and sparse lines. The six poems recall the styles of Nicole Brossard and Anne Michaels in how MacEachern makes ... Read More »
Last year, Marie-Noëlle Hébert won the Prix des libraires du Québec for the French-language title La grosse laide, a deeply emotional graphic memoir chronicling her years-long battle with an eating disorder. The English translation, My ... Read More »
March 22, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books
As readers, we are accustomed to thematic collections of short fiction, everything from Christmas stories to detective stories featuring cats to stories inspired by a Rush album. These collections, though, are generally multi-author anthologies. In ... Read More »
March 22, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews
As readers, we are accustomed to thematic collections of short fiction, everything from Christmas stories to detective stories featuring cats to stories inspired by a Rush album. These collections, though, are generally multi-author anthologies. In ... Read More »
March 22, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews
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