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...
by prfire | Sep 26, 2019 | Book Reviews
It is always dangerous to make predictions, but it is likely that the firm place of Canadian playwriting in the nation’s theatres will hold and continue to grow.At one time, even as near as a generation ago, that wasn’t certain. In many ways, Canadian theatre...
by prfire | Sep 12, 2019 | All Reviews, Art, Book Reviews, Comics
When reading or experiencing an aesthetic object, whether that be a book or a painting or a film or whatever else, the viewer seldom thinks of the form. They don’t see the page as a structure that organizes their experience, or the mechanisms of a film’s editing...
by prfire | Aug 29, 2019 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
Take first the meaning of the word “infrangible” —not capable of being broken or separated into parts. Then take the cover art for the book, the author’s painting of a woman holding her head in her hands. Now take the poems themselves, each one observing, surveying...
by prfire | Aug 19, 2019 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Essays
Keetsahnak is an anthology of the truth about missing and murdered indigenous women. Through stories of resilience, pain, heart ache, readers will learn the history and initiatives that have come to light as Canada’s silent genocide of indigenous women. Every...
