Scott’s modes of questioning vary over time, but her concerns remain constant: feminism, queerness, class struggle, resisting capitalism and neoliberalism, the shape of sentences.
By H Felix Chau Bradley
Interviews
A unique blend of mystery, political commentary, and magic realism, Edem Awumey's Mina among the Shadows is first and foremost a story about love.
By Roxane Hudon
The 2020 Montreal Poetry Prize, whose criterion for submission is an original English-language poem of under forty lines, received a staggering 4,645 international entries. An international jury of ten poets work to create individual shortlists, which are then submitted to the year’s judge.
By Rachel McCrum
Tawhida Tanya Evanson is a seasoned poet, spoken word performer, and oral storyteller, and her craft is evident in this first work of prose fiction.
By H Felix Chau Bradley
rushes from the river disappointment by stephanie roberts is a sweeping force of music, pulsing images, clear wit, and tenderness.
By T. Liem
Linda Leith's The Girl From Dream City is an intimate and engaging story of her journey from a challenging girlhood in Northern Ireland to becoming a novelist, translator, and one of Canada’s leading literary curators.
By Ami Sands Brodoff
Dr. Samir Shaheen-Hussain's Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism against Indigenous Children in Canada jolts the reader from complacency page after page, detail after detail, pushing us beyond individual incidents to an understanding of a bigger picture.
By Taionrén:hote Dan David
With Represented Immobilized, a graphic memoir, Rick Trembles takes us through a series of autobiographical strips, each describing a different moment in the artist’s life.
By Roxane Hudon
Why a collection of selected poems now? My first question to Carmine Starnino about his new book Dirty Words is perhaps a little unfair. But I’m curious as to what has motivated a retrospective of five collections at this point in his career. A collection of selected poems always has the feel of an interval. A pause, a reflection. A summary, even.
By Rachel McCrum
Kama La Mackerel’s debut poetry collection, ZOM-FAM, is kaleidoscopic – literally, it is beautiful in its form and scope. As a way of looking, the kaleidoscope lets us view and appreciate La Mackerel’s moving, imaginative poetry through multiple frameworks.
By T. Liem
Eva Crocker’s debut novel, which was longlisted for the Giller Prize, originated as a script for a playwriting class. All I Ask is a carefully crafted, observant novel, whose dialogue and scene composition retain an intimacy and immediacy that hint at its theatrical origins.
By H Felix Chau Bradley
When I ask Avasilichioaei whether the performance piece or the print versions of this work came first, she explains that the creation of different renditions of the same work often happens simultaneously, and these versions mutually impact one another so that it is ultimately irrelevant which one originated the process.
By Klara du Plessis