The See, Jessica MacCormack. Paper Pusher, 2013. by Jacob Wren On the third page of The See, interdisciplinary artist Jessica MacCormack writes: I have been in therapy for a Very…
Category: Reviews
Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility, Théodora Armstrong. House of Anansi Press, 2013. by David Huebert Théodora Armstrong’s debut short fiction collection, Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility, is an…
Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas, Denis Wood. 2nd Edition. Siglio, 2013. Gibber, angela rawlings. 2012. by Nick Thran To simply reiterate that we are haunted by the devastation that human consumption…
Onion Man, Kathryn Mockler. Tightrope Books, 2011. by Tanis MacDonald The individual poems of Kathryn Mockler’s Onion Man, which hover between a novel in verse and a long poem sequence, appear on…
Victor Coleman, ivH: An Alphamath Serial, BookThug 2012 I can explain my meaning best by mathematics.– Ezra Pound Since the late 1960s, Victor Coleman has been committed to innovative poetic…
Please, No More Poetry: The Poetry of derek beaulieu, derek beaulieu, ed. Kit Dobson. WLUP, 2013. by Eric Schmaltz With the release of Please, No More Poetry: The Poetry of…
fur(l) parachute, Shannon Maguire. BookThug, 2013. by Eric Schmaltz Following up on her shortlist nomination for the 2011 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Writing, Shannon Maguire–proving herself to be a…
Monkey Ranch, Julie Bruck. Brick Books, 2012. Omens in the Year of the Ox, Steven Price. Brick Books, 2012. by Myna Wallin Monkey Ranch is Julie Bruck’s third collection of poetry…
The Polymers, Adam Dickinson. Anansi, 2013. by Rachael Wyatt This book attracted me, initially, with its use of polymer plastics as a conceit for drawing a collection together. Even before…
How Poetry Saved My Life, Amber Dawn. Arsenal Pulp, 2013. by Heather Cromarty TO WRITE Given the task of writing a lecture on women and fiction in 1928, Virginia Woolf,…
And the Birds Rained Down, Jocelyne Saucier. Transl. Rhonda Mullins, Coach House Books, 2012. by Adrienne Celt As I began organizing my thoughts for this piece, it became clear to me…
The Obituary, Gail Scott. Coach House Books, 2010. by Martin Schauss Midway through the ludicrously lucid précis on the back of the folding front-cover of my edition of Gail Scott’s…