by prfire | Oct 8, 2019 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
Kate Braid’s 2018 book of poetry, Elemental, opens with a D. H. Lawrence quote about the energy, power and “dark sort of joy” we derive from the earthly elements that surround us. Braid goes on to explore our connectedness to the natural world, and the ways in which...
by prfire | Sep 12, 2019 | All Reviews, Art, Book Reviews, Comics
When reading or experiencing an aesthetic object, whether that be a book or a painting or a film or whatever else, the viewer seldom thinks of the form. They don’t see the page as a structure that organizes their experience, or the mechanisms of a film’s editing...
by prfire | Aug 29, 2019 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
Take first the meaning of the word “infrangible” —not capable of being broken or separated into parts. Then take the cover art for the book, the author’s painting of a woman holding her head in her hands. Now take the poems themselves, each one observing, surveying...
by prfire | Aug 19, 2019 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Essays
Keetsahnak is an anthology of the truth about missing and murdered indigenous women. Through stories of resilience, pain, heart ache, readers will learn the history and initiatives that have come to light as Canada’s silent genocide of indigenous women. Every...
by prfire | Aug 1, 2019 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
In The Year of No Summer, Rachel Lebowitz weaves history, mythology, folklore and personal experience into a vibrant lyric essay. Letters from the frontlines of World War I, grim tales about famine, Greek legends, reflections on tourism, museums, and motherhood are...
by prfire | Jul 22, 2019 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Theatre
In Indian Act: Residential School Plays, Donna-Michelle St. Bernard (Ed.) calls the residential school system a “dark spectre” upon the Canadian landscape (pg. x) The system of residential schools that existed for 150 years until the last school closed in 1996 has...
