Wan
Fans of Rachel Cusk’s much-acclaimed fiction might be intrigued by this debut novel from Toronto-based writer Dawn Promislow, author of one previous short-story collection. As with Cusk’s [...]
Christine Wiesenthal
Memory Speaks
On Losing and Reclaiming Language and Self
My Mother, My Translator
Novelist and poet Jaspreet Singh’s latest book is for people who like memoirs—and, more exceptionally, for readers who are generally not fans of genre, too. This is because My Mother, My [...]
Eight Track
In her sixth book of poetry, Oana Avasilichioaei offers a multi-frequency meditation on the various meanings of “tracks” and “tracking”—sound tracks, animal tracks, landscapes and languages as [...]
Pressure Cooker Love Bomb
With a title like Pressure Cooker Love Bomb, this collection makes the reader both eager and a bit hesitant to crack the book open (will it explode in our hands?). Sharanpal Ruprai’s new poems [...]
Frontenac House Poetry Quartet 2018
Fresh from the blazing success of last year’s Griffin-winning publication of Billy Ray Belcourt’s This Wound is a World, Calgary-based Frontenac House is justifiably proud of its annual poetry [...]
Visual Cities
Cities, like dreams,” Italo Calvino once wrote, “are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and [...]
November: Poems
A brief introductory note by J. Mark Smith provides an explanatory framework for the poems in Jaspreet Singh’s first collection of verse, November: “November (1984) was the month of mass murder [...]
Silent Sister: The Mastectomy Poems
by Beth Everest