by Lindsey | Mar 29, 2021 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
How do you choose the best in language and say this is the finest? In Best Canadian Poetry 2019 editors, Anita Lahey, Amanda Jernigan and guest editor, Rob Taylor, would have searched through thousands of submissions to discover why a certain poem would be enjoyable...
by Lindsey | Mar 17, 2021 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
M(other): “I’m foreign, and she is home” In de Meijer’s sophomore collection, motherhood is defined as a “submerged world” into which former modes of being are subsumed or filtered through (24). These lyrical poems have a quiet, expansive grace, allowing for judicious...
by Lindsey | Feb 18, 2021 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Essays, Non-Fiction
Marion Agnew didn’t want to write about her brilliant, often formidable, mother. Instead, she wanted to save her. But as it became clear that was impossible, she began to write, searching for ways to understand and accept her mother even as the person she’d once been...
by Lindsey | Feb 5, 2021 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Drama, Theatre
Toronto playwright Kat Sandler explores the liminal space between the real and the fictional in two recently published plays Bang Bang and Mustard. In the former, she presents the story of a young playwright whose latest work of gritty social drama...
by Lindsey | Jan 22, 2021 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
The Transaction, Guglielmo D’Izzia’s debut novel, cements his place as a master of prose. It won the 2016 Marina Nemat Award and was named a 2020 International Book Awards Finalist. The novel follows a man named De Angelis as he travels to a small Italian town called...
by Lindsey | Jan 12, 2021 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
Dianne Warren’s most recent novel The Diamond House is quietly addictive. Her portrayal of an entrepreneurial, working-class family in Saskatchewan is deliciously compelling and uncannily realistic, particularly if you’re from the prairie province. Reading The Diamond...
