by nicole | Jan 21, 2014 | Book Reviews, Poetry
Victor Coleman has been writing for a lifetime, working at the edges of poetry – never afraid to challenge any reader gutsy enough to pick up one of his books. This one comes with the head-scratching title ivH: An Alphamath Serial displayed in a pitch-black font...
by prfire | Dec 19, 2013 | Book Reviews, Drama
Metastasis and Other Plays by Alberta playwright Gordon Pengilly is a collection of three plays drawn from a sizable body of work dating back to 1975 that Pengilly has written for stage and radio. It’s clear that a publication of his work has been long overdue, and...
by prfire | Oct 21, 2013 | Book Reviews, Poetry
In Victor Enns’s Boy, family and locale figure prominently, as well they might when the topic is adolescence. Enns feels dearly about his sister, not as strongly about his brother, he desperately needs his mother, and Dad keeps a leather belt in his roll-top desk. We...
by prfire | Jul 15, 2013 | Book Reviews, Poetry
In Firewalk, Katherine Bitney writes poems against a spectacular northern backdrop of aurora borealis conceived of as a “forest of green girls” (13), with the stag at the winter solstice standing with the sun “mov[ing] lower, into his antlers” (37), and the...
by prfire | May 2, 2013 | Book Reviews, Fiction
Hope Plett, the protagonist of David Bergen’s seventh novel, The Age of Hope, makes her first appearance at the tail end of a misguided attempt at aerial daredevilry. This incident leaves the pilot, a potential suitor, dead, and Hope saddened but not overly put out....
by prfire | Jan 24, 2013 | Book Reviews, Poetry
Katherena Vermette’s North End Love Songs is a debut collection from an emerging Winnipeg poet, a book that combines elegiac and fiercely ecstatic melodies to sing of a complicated love for a city, a river, and a neighbourhood. It is deeply rooted in its location, yet...
