Opening Ceremony, Laura Marie Marciano’s second collection of poetry, is a memory-mending confession, coming clean with the kind of clarity to prepare for the prospect of parenthood. The lines trace back one life, before the […]
Between rootlessness and unquiet, Grace Kwan’s debut collection of poems, The Sacred Heart Motel, visits the dim private experience of lovers, strangers, visitors, and migrants without reservation or a master key. It is only fitting […]
Harry Somers was a prolific composer of various mediums, including stage productions, concert halls, film, and radio, and advocated for Canadian music internationally. Norma Beecroft was a prominent Canadian composer, producer, and broadcaster who received […]
In Jacob Wren’s latest novel, Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim, an unnamed fiction writer with nothing to lose moves from his pent-up room, stepping out of the world of the imaginary and into […]
Good Want reads as a road map through the wilderness of the suburbs. The homeward bound collection of poems lies, restlessly, between divine deliverance and blunt realness, serving as a careful witness to the small […]
I Will Get Up Off Of, the second poetry collection of Simina Banu is a one-location film equivalent of a book, as it brilliantly unravels on the treadmill of life, yet moves freely through moments […]
National Animal, Derek Webster’s second poetry collection, asks what it means to be a Canadian in a time of tremendous uncertainty and rapid dynamism. Acting as a kaleidoscope that illuminates the multiplicative aspects that form […]
Sincere and intimate, sentimental and sanguine, Sivan Slapak’s debut book Here is Still Here, is brought together as a collection of sure-footed short stories. Isabel, the wanderlustful protagonist, embarks on a journey from Montreal to […]
Can contemporary poets maintain a sense of informality and inventiveness while expressing insight into the profound depths of the truth we so desperately yearn for? Can poetry reimagine sensibility while still being able to make […]
A Ramshackle Home is the inaugural work in Mihali’s extensive literary repertoire. Judith Weisz Woodsworth’s translation of Le Pays du fromage (2002) breathes new life into this novel, which has undergone its third transformation, originally […]
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