by prfire | Oct 12, 2017 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
Alisa Smith’s Speakeasy tells the story of Lena Stillman’s past as a member of Bill Bagley’s Clockwork Gang of bank robbers, and her present occupation of elite codebreaker at the Esquimalt base during World War II. We are introduced to a thorough narrative of...
by prfire | Sep 21, 2017 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
How Festive the Ambulance, Kim Fu’s debut book of poetry, is a startling exploration of the banality of modern life. With dark and exacting language, Fu dissects life’s excess of moments and uncovers a consistency of destruction and disappointment. Throughout How...
by prfire | Sep 11, 2017 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
Suzette Mayr is an accomplished poet and novelist, based in Calgary. Her most recent novel, Monoceros, was nominated for a Giller Prize and won both the W. O. Mitchell Book Prize and the ReLit Award for Best Novel. Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall...
by prfire | Aug 28, 2017 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
There is no doubt that Shot-blue is a promising debut novel. Published in February 2017 by Coach House Books, Jesse Ruddock’s literary work revolves around a tapestry of young people who struggle with isolation in the unforgiving Canadian North. The author quickly...
by prfire | Aug 11, 2017 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
Christopher Gudgeon is an accomplished writer in a variety of forms, mostly nonfiction, but is also well-known for his novel Song of Kosovo. The Encyclopedia of Lies is his first short story collection, and like the author, expresses itself through a variety of...
by prfire | Jul 24, 2017 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
The cover says Brockwell’s All of Us Reticent, Here, Together will turn around family, detritus, and the everyday of modern technology. What we aren’t told of is the detritus of family, the quotidian life of mourning, and truth’s turning through technology. Brockwell...
