by prfire | Mar 2, 2017 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
How does an emotionally deprived childhood affect one’s behaviour as an adult? To what extent does sexual abuse leave emotional scars? These are two issues addressed in this debut novella by Erika Rummel. Set in Ontario and in post World War II Vienna, the...
by prfire | Feb 2, 2017 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
Janet Trull, a columnist for the Haliburton County Echo, is also the winner of the 2013 Canada Writes Challenge. Her debut book, Hot Town and other stories, is a collection of 18 narratives; the tales are about ordinary people who are trying to make their lives...
by prfire | Jan 3, 2017 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
A doctoral student named Christian Guay-Poliquin is now emerging. In 2013, his first novel, Le fil des kilométres, impressed Quebec publishers Le devoir and La presse who then boosted the author with blurb-friendly praise. Le fil des kilometers was then translated to...
by prfire | Dec 1, 2016 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
Dennis Cooley’s The Home Place: Robert Kroetsch, Uninvention, AND Poetic Aposiopesis “What else are we to do with his professions of unknowing…?” (287) Dennis Cooley has written a remarkable monograph on Robert Kroetsch that focuses primarily...
by prfire | Aug 4, 2016 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
It might seem that Mark Frutkin takes no risks in his fluid and lyric collection Hermit Thrush, but listen closer and you’ll hear the ominous vibration of a thrumming string. The risk Frutkin takes is to remind us that death comes for everyone. While this fact may...
by prfire | Jun 7, 2016 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
Rosanna Deerchild’s second book of poetry, calling down the sky, is a poetically and narratively powerful collection in which Deerchild bears witness to her mother’s experience in residential school, the long-term impacts of that trauma, and both women’s resiliency....
