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Most of what follows is true : places imagined and real by Michael Crummey
Most of what follows is true reads as the beginning of a blueprint for writing about real places, historical figures and facts, in both fiction and nonfiction. While Michael Crummey gave this lecture in an academic context, during the Kreisel Lecture Series...
Photon Touch: poems by Michelle Elrick
Michelle Elrick’s Photon Touch: poems is excitingly innovative and utterly impossible to categorize. It includes visual poetry. It is experimental and lyrical. It is an artfully designed object of book art, a chapbook, and a digital synth/pop/prog album with spoken...
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...