News & Extras
Firewalk
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...
Birk Sproxton: Life, Writing and Remembrance
by Christian Riegel In mid March, 2007, I answered the phone and mistook Denis Sproxton’s voice for that of his father, Birk. For a brief moment, I thought I was to have another of the many conversations that Birk and I regularly had about reading, writing, and the...
Read Sue Goyette’s winning suite of poems
On June 7, Sue’s suite of poems “fashion” won silver at the National Magazine Awards gala in Toronto. fashion: inspiration wear In this dress you will forget your inability to be fluid and will walk into rooms as...
The Age of Hope
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....
North End Love Songs
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...
What’s The Score?
It took me a while to figure it out, but now I know who David McFadden reminds me of – the late American performing artist Andy Kaufman. He has that same almost illicit sense of humour – a kind of wicked take-your-PC-and-shove-it attitude that doesn’t show up...