by Lindsey | Dec 17, 2020 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
By the third line of the first poem in My Heart is a Rose Manhattan, Nikki Reimer writes that her new work, this work, “is grief.” It is a grief that she will acknowledge again in the closing lines of that poem when she apologizes for both her grief and her new work....
by Lindsey | Dec 7, 2020 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
Biblioasis and famous Canadian cartoonist Seth, kept their holiday tradition alive by once again releasing three ghost stories for Christmas. Taking a break from publishing mostly Victorian era ghost stories, two of this year’s offerings are a little closer to the...
by Lindsey | Nov 20, 2020 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Drama
Hanna Moscovitch’s impressive beginning as a playwright with East of Berlin, The Russian Play, and Little One has not been fulfilled, or at best, fitfully so. With these plays, perhaps especially East of Berlin, she seemed capable of anything with her dramatic...
by Lindsey | Nov 9, 2020 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
Marc Herman Lynch’s debut novel, Arborescent, is a magical romp through a strangely familiar world. The novel is set in a fictional version of Calgary called Moh’kins’tsis, which isn’t a made up name or place at all, but the traditional Blackfoot name for the region....
by Lindsey | Oct 26, 2020 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
It’s an odd experience, reading a novel about apocalyptic fears during a pandemic. A few chapters into Want, the debut novel by Saskatchewan writer Barbara Langhorst, the narrator’s brother launches into an impassioned rant about the dangers of the current world....
by Lindsey | Oct 14, 2020 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
There is a sensual, affirming candor to the poems in Glitter & Fall, Winnipeg poet Di Brandt’s reimagining of the Dao De Jing, a text that dates from the fourth century B.C.E., but that remains essential reading for those interested in the Chinese philosophical...
