by prfire | Dec 9, 2019 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
Coopsammy’s novel, set in Trinidad in the 1950’s, features Tessa Joseph who is eight years old when the story begins and nineteen when it ends with her leaving the island, having won a scholarship to attend university in Delhi. Tessa is an avid reader who dreams of...
by prfire | Nov 28, 2019 | Book Reviews, Fiction
Biblioasis, along with famous Canadian cartoonist Seth, have once again released three Victorian ghost stories just in time for the holiday season, and they’re fantastic. Harkening back to the tradition of telling ghost stories at Christmas, these stocking...
by prfire | Nov 18, 2019 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
Reading Mary Barnes’ poetry collection, What Fox Knew, is a fascinating journey. It is epic in scope, delightfully composed, and rich in detail. Set in the Southern Georgian Bay area, the characters and their chronicles reveal a deep past of First Nations peoples...
by prfire | Nov 4, 2019 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Lecture
Most of what follows is true reads as the beginning of a blueprint for writing about real places, historical figures and facts, in both fiction and nonfiction. While Michael Crummey gave this lecture in an academic context, during the Kreisel Lecture Series...
by prfire | Oct 23, 2019 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
Michelle Elrick’s Photon Touch: poems is excitingly innovative and utterly impossible to categorize. It includes visual poetry. It is experimental and lyrical. It is an artfully designed object of book art, a chapbook, and a digital synth/pop/prog album with spoken...
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...
