Heather O’Neill’s own bold and bewitching words, steeped in symbolism, are as exciting to unpack as an epic dream.
By Kimberly Bourgeois
Reviews
One of the sheer brilliances of Kwan’s book is turning migration into a love poem and love into a migration.
By Carlos A. Pittella
Crucially, the authors try to answer the million-dollar question: what is to be done about the far right in Canada?
By Nora Loreto
Cole Degenstein's graphic novel is an honest reflection on isolation, seasonal depression, the poetry in daily life.
By Sasha Khalimonova
This latest by Klara du Plessis examines a collaborative event and, in doing so, endlessly multiplies it – so the event isn’t dead after all.
By Carlos A. Pittella
This is a book of silences: the long blanket of winter, the blank of the page always larger than the poems themselves, the passivity of government.
By Carlos A. Pittella
Amid dark undercurrents that often implicate poet and reader alike, Marciano creates her own rituals.
By Carlos A. Pittella
If I could buy an atlas of Canadian cities recently mapped by poets, I would expect to find John Reibetanz’s Toronto.
By Carlos A. Pittella
Amal Elsana Alh’jooj’s memoir tells of building bridges in places where people struggle to imagine such a possibility
By Brooke Lee
Call it emotional realism; for Tara Booth, her outsized feelings are the only story that really matters.
By Emily Raine
An engaging and humanistic memoir that braids together George Galt’s own “writing life” with a history of the anglophone Canadian literary scene.
By Adam Hill
The substantial question that Carolyn Marie Souaid’s novel poses is what exactly “good” entails – and by what measure?
By Phoebe Yì Lǐng