by prfire | Jul 13, 2018 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Non-Fiction
In a time of truth and reconciliation, One Bead at a Time: A Memoir by Beverly Little Thunder, is a book that should be read. This memoir is an oral account of her life stories that have been transcribed by Sharron Proulx-Turner. Beverly’s story originates with her...
by prfire | Jun 22, 2018 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
Written with searing clarity and massive heart, Slow War is narrative poetry at its best. The first collection from Benjamin Hertwig, a veteran of Afghanistan, it chronicles the experiences of an unnamed soldier. We follow this soldier as he’s primed for war, plunged...
by prfire | Jun 11, 2018 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
I first came to know Julie Paul as a storyteller. In The Jealousy Bone (Emdash Publishing, 2008) and The Pull of the Moon (Brindle & Glass, 2014), Paul drew readers into vividly wrought worlds populated by quirky yet utterly relatable characters who struggled to...
by prfire | May 30, 2018 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
Listen. If is Douglas Barbour’s first book of poetry in over a decade and includes work that was produced over a twenty year period. That extended period of production has some interesting effects on the text. Poems like “The Age Demanding” which confronts the Iraq...
by prfire | May 17, 2018 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
Reading Lorna Crozier’s poetry is always a surprise and a delight, and the poet does not disappoint with her latest collection, What the Soul Doesn’t Want. She writes about growing old and the vulnerabilities which accompany aging. She writes about grief, about...
by prfire | May 7, 2018 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
Witches and teeth, hippies and cleaning ladies, pregnancy and ghosts, tattoos and sex in a Saskatoon bus station bathroom: Annette Lapointe’s You Are Not Needed Now reads like a collection of oddities and curiosities masquerading as the mundane. This book surprises me...
