New work from Cora Siré, Jessi MacEachern, Ken Norris, Chad Campbell and Jocelyne Dubois in our summer poetry roundup.
By Robyn Fadden
Reviews
A fisherman's tall tale, a budding theatre impresario, a heartwarming refugee story, an inspiring tale of independence, and a rebellious head of hair in our roundup of the season's books for children.
By B. A. Markus
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
Michael Occhionero’s ALT•4•1 is an existentialist, dystopian science fiction novel that ponders the fate of humanity under corporate hegemony.
By Natalia Yanchak
Jane Woods’ second novel shows her talent in creating complex and flawed characters.
By Billie Gagné-LeBel
In Andrée A. Gratton's debut novella, a young woman develops an unhealthy obsession with a would-be-friend.
By Yara El-Soueidi
David Homel’s admirable and absorbing memoir charts the map of his life’s journey.
By Gina Roitman
Ghost Face is Greg Santos’ fourth book of poetry. I interpreted it as a loose narrative in verse, divided into three parts – “I/You,” "Saudade," and “Ode to Joy.” It’s a story that begins with a pregnant teenage girl escaping the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. It then follows her child, adopted by a family descended from Portuguese and Spanish immigrants, as he attempts to negotiate the complex cruelties and blessings of history, family, and identity.
By Tara McGowan-Ross
With her latest work, author Dianne Graves attempts to showcase a side of World War I that many Canadians may never have heard of before: that of the women who stood in the background of battle.
By Roxane Hudon