A graphic interview with Joe Ollmann about his award-nominated graphic novel Fictional Father.
By Arizona O'Neill
Interviews
What exactly constitutes a "real" family? Questions like this are at the heart of Christopher DiRaddo's novel The Family Way.
By Peter Dubé
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
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