Adam Haiun’s debut poetry book, I Am Looking for You in the No-Place Grid, attempts to break down the cubicles of the world, to vindicate the forgotten voices howling anachronistically into the no-man’s-land of the […]
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 […]
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