The translators show strong empathy for their authors, recreating the candour, fervour, and lyricism of their language.
By Sherry Simon
Reviews
At its core, Physical Education is a meditation on how the life of the mind distances us from being grounded in what’s real.
By Emily Raine
My Mom Is Like a Kite provides parents and children alike with a simple roadmap for approaching mental illness within a family.
By Tina Wayland
My Subway Runs offers a positive message that helps to demystify public transit.
By Tina Wayland
Philomena and the Big Bad Mimi tackles with care and kindness a common challenge that many kids face.
By Tina Wayland
Just a Minute: Why Humans Tell Time explores all the ways time plays an integral part in our lives.
By Tina Wayland
A Garden of Berries and Crows takes a compassionate look at how being different doesn’t mean being wrong.
By Tina Wayland
Laura Vazquez’s language is governed by an unusual, almost surreal logic.
By Frances Grace Fyfe
Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt’s new book of poems is striking as much for its beauty as its simplicity.
By Frances Grace Fyfe
Greene’s poetic conceits – couplets of eleven syllables, shipwrecks, journeys home – harken his work to a golden age of poetry.
By Frances Grace Fyfe
Huang’s collection is on a papyrus for the time being, where gaps appear less by disintegration than by degradations of memory.
By Frances Grace Fyfe
Cathon shows a seemingly inexhaustible flair for concentrated narrative and illuminating anecdote.
By Ian McGillis