by prfire | Nov 19, 2018 | Book Reviews, Poetry
Susan Ioannou’s Looking for Light charms and delights. It also feels like a final statement, as if it’s a summing up and a glancing back across the creative process. Chris Faiers’s Foreword suggests one pathway into the three sections of Looking for Light. He...
by prfire | Nov 8, 2018 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
How a life is measured can take a lifetime of contemplation and along the way there are many questions, some that cannot be answered. What do we learn? What do we feel we have accomplished, if anything? And what is left afterwards for others to discover? Two...
by prfire | Oct 29, 2018 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Non-Fiction
Heather O’Neill’s Wisdom in Nonsense: Invaluable Lessons from My Father begins with a piece of fatherly advice that must have sounded, to the young budding writer, as a challenge: “Lesson One, Never Keep a Diary”(3). O’Neill tells us that while chronicling the daily...
by prfire | Oct 17, 2018 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
You find yourself in the forest. You know the one. It’s the forest where the stories you read as a child take place. A forest so green and thick, that it’s positively brimming with life, with magic. Up ahead, you see a grand building, majestic amongst the trees, yet...
by prfire | Oct 5, 2018 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
The flyer for Kimmy Beach’s beautifully produced novella Nuala advertises a dystopian future troubled with love, possessiveness, and envy—it lives up to the pitch. But its subtitle, A Fable, points to more. The fable leaves the book open and inscrutable while...
by prfire | Sep 24, 2018 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
Hannah Godfrey is a formidable storyteller, so much so that even a thoroughly academic dissection of the vagus nerve becomes emotive prose in her chapbook Not For The World Would I Compare It To Anything. The ambitious collection of short stories and essays was...
