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Elemental by Kate Braid
Kate Braid’s 2018 book of poetry, Elemental, opens with a D. H. Lawrence quote about the energy, power and “dark sort of joy” we derive from the earthly elements that surround us. Braid goes on to explore our connectedness to the natural world, and the ways in which...
Remembering Andris Taskans
On the afternoon of Friday, September 27th, 2019, Andris Taskans passed away. Andris was one of the founders of Prairie Fire and had worked diligently at the magazine since its inception. He was a kind man, who always had a story to tell. Perhaps that's why he was...
Of Human Bondage by Vern Thiessen, Lac/Athabasca by Len Falkenstein, This Is How We Got Here by Keith Barker & Punch Up by Kat Sandler
It is always dangerous to make predictions, but it is likely that the firm place of Canadian playwriting in the nation’s theatres will hold and continue to grow.At one time, even as near as a generation ago, that wasn’t certain. In many ways, Canadian theatre...
Place Into Being by Robert Pasternak
When reading or experiencing an aesthetic object, whether that be a book or a painting or a film or whatever else, the viewer seldom thinks of the form. They don’t see the page as a structure that organizes their experience, or the mechanisms of a film’s editing...
Infrangible by Carol Barbour
Take first the meaning of the word “infrangible” —not capable of being broken or separated into parts. Then take the cover art for the book, the author’s painting of a woman holding her head in her hands. Now take the poems themselves, each one observing, surveying...
Keetsahnak / Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters Eds. Kim Anderson, Maria Campbell & Christi Belcourt
Keetsahnak is an anthology of the truth about missing and murdered indigenous women. Through stories of resilience, pain, heart ache, readers will learn the history and initiatives that have come to light as Canada’s silent genocide of indigenous women. Every...