by prfire | Aug 28, 2017 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
There is no doubt that Shot-blue is a promising debut novel. Published in February 2017 by Coach House Books, Jesse Ruddock’s literary work revolves around a tapestry of young people who struggle with isolation in the unforgiving Canadian North. The author quickly...
by prfire | Aug 11, 2017 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
Christopher Gudgeon is an accomplished writer in a variety of forms, mostly nonfiction, but is also well-known for his novel Song of Kosovo. The Encyclopedia of Lies is his first short story collection, and like the author, expresses itself through a variety of...
by prfire | Jul 24, 2017 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
The cover says Brockwell’s All of Us Reticent, Here, Together will turn around family, detritus, and the everyday of modern technology. What we aren’t told of is the detritus of family, the quotidian life of mourning, and truth’s turning through technology. Brockwell...
by prfire | Jul 11, 2017 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
Rocco de Giacomo is the author of several books of poetry. Over the years his works have appeared in literary journals such as Vallum, The Antigonish Review and Tower Poetry. With his new book Every Night of Our Lives the poet explores the themes of fatherhood...
by prfire | Jun 27, 2017 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
In Search of New Babylon marks Dominique Scali’s first novel, and one of W. Donald Wilson’s several translations. Like Guy Vanderhaeghe’s The Englishman’s Boy, Patrick DeWitt’s The Sisters Brothers, or Sean Johnston’s Listen All You Bullets, Scali continues the...
by prfire | Jun 13, 2017 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
The Vagaries of Love, its Loss and Renewals, Replenishment of the Self In Little Wildheart, Micheline Maylor writes poems that chart the vagaries of love, its cycles of loss and renewal, followed by a realization about the joy and freedom in reinhabiting the self...
