by prfire | May 2, 2017 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
The cover of Jamali Rad’s book depicts a building and an outdoor courtyard with slab benches. The structures, composed of concrete, appear stark and cold; the building is windowless and the only opening shown resembles a black, cave-like entrance. What is beyond this...
by prfire | Apr 3, 2017 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
Angeline Schellenberg’s debut collection of poetry concerns raising children on the autism spectrum. The Winnipeg author explores broad topics such as the conflicting and complex emotions of parenthood and how the responsibility of the situation, and its demands,...
by prfire | Mar 2, 2017 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
How does an emotionally deprived childhood affect one’s behaviour as an adult? To what extent does sexual abuse leave emotional scars? These are two issues addressed in this debut novella by Erika Rummel. Set in Ontario and in post World War II Vienna, the...
by prfire | Feb 2, 2017 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
Janet Trull, a columnist for the Haliburton County Echo, is also the winner of the 2013 Canada Writes Challenge. Her debut book, Hot Town and other stories, is a collection of 18 narratives; the tales are about ordinary people who are trying to make their lives...
by prfire | Jan 3, 2017 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
A doctoral student named Christian Guay-Poliquin is now emerging. In 2013, his first novel, Le fil des kilométres, impressed Quebec publishers Le devoir and La presse who then boosted the author with blurb-friendly praise. Le fil des kilometers was then translated to...
by prfire | Dec 1, 2016 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
Dennis Cooley’s The Home Place: Robert Kroetsch, Uninvention, AND Poetic Aposiopesis “What else are we to do with his professions of unknowing…?” (287) Dennis Cooley has written a remarkable monograph on Robert Kroetsch that focuses primarily...
