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New work from Cora Siré, Jessi MacEachern, Ken Norris, Chad Campbell and Jocelyne Dubois in our summer poetry roundup.
Review by ["Robyn Fadden"]
By Robyn Fadden
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.
Review by ["B. A. Markus"]
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.
Review by ["Peter Dubu00e9"]
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.
Review by ["Helen Chau Bradley"]
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.
Review by ["Roxane Hudon"]
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.
Review by ["Rachel McCrum"]
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.
Review by ["Natalia Yanchak"]
By Natalia Yanchak
Jane Woods’ second novel shows her talent in creating complex and flawed characters.
Review by ["Billie Gagnu00e9-LeBel"]
By Billie Gagné-LeBel
In Andrée A. Gratton's debut novella, a young woman develops an unhealthy obsession with a would-be-friend.
Review by ["Yara El-Soueidi"]
By Yara El-Soueidi
David Homel’s admirable and absorbing memoir charts the map of his life’s journey.
Review by ["Gina Roitman"]
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.
Review by ["Tara McGowan-Ross"]
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.
Review by ["Roxane Hudon"]
By Roxane Hudon