by Lindsey | Aug 11, 2021 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
A place is never simple, it is always shot through with the histories, symbols, and identities that collide and contest it, by the accrual of meanings over time and the conversations between those meanings. Given the role place often plays in how we understand and...
by Lindsey | Jul 26, 2021 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
While Garry Thomas Morse is already an accomplished poet and fiction writer, he manages to deliver something completely new and fresh in his new novel, Yams do not Exist. From the first page, it’s clear that this book is something different. The very first sentence...
by Lindsey | Jul 13, 2021 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
Every short story collection should have one perfect story that the reader returns to over and over. Even if some of the other stories are ho-hum, that one perfect story remains in the mind. Through...
by Lindsey | Jun 22, 2021 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
Jonathan Ball has built an impressive writing career that includes both poetry and fiction. That wild electricity of poetry explodes in his first full-length fiction collection, The Lightning of Possible Storms. The Lightning of Possible Storms is categorized as a...
by Lindsey | Jun 7, 2021 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
In The Perfect Archive, Hamilton poet, archivist and librarian Paul Lisson stretches the boundaries of poetry and prose to perform an exacting/extracting critique of the archive. Reminiscent of Kafka, radical and irreverent, the archive at the centre of this dark tale...
by Lindsey | May 12, 2021 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Essays, Non-Fiction
Last year, the Covid-19 pandemic opened a schism that marks what many people now consider a “before and after.” The before: concerts, commutes, handshakes, birthday candles. The after: masks, six foot separations, grocery store line-ups, Zoom. March 2021 marks...
