No stone goes unturned in this heavy but insightful page-turner ‘Small Predators’
Small Predators Jennifer Ilse Black, 144 pgs, ARP Books, arpbooks.org, $18.95 From the beginning, Fox has known exactly how she’s […]
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‘Dear Current Occupant’ is a powerful narrative of Black female self-invention
Dear Current Occupant Chelene Knight, 132 pgs, Book*hug, bookthug.ca, $20 Despite featuring 23 full-colour photographs of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Dear […]
The Small Intimacies of Motherhood in ‘A Bubble’
A Bubble Geneviève Castrée, 16 pgs, Drawn & Quarterly, drawnandquarterly.com, $14.95 The late Geneviève Castrée was a multi-talented artist, who […]
‘SKY WRI TEI NGS’ transforms the mundane
SKY WRI TEI NGS Nasser Hussain, 97 pgs, Coach House Books, chbooks.com, $19.95 Every now and then, the light from […]
Meditations on Prairie Life: ‘Little Wild’
Little Wild Curtis Leblanc, 80 pgs, Nightwood Editions, nightwoodeditions.com, $18.95 Curtis Leblanc, a West Coast poet and editor — Vancouver […]
A Homage to Montreal: ‘Everyone Rides the Bus in a City of Losers’
Everyone Rides the Bus in a City of Losers Jason Freure, 105 pgs, ECW Press/a misFit book, ecwpress.com, $18.95 In […]
Poetic Vignettes and Nuanced Portrayals of Queerness in ‘Hider/Seeker’
Hider/Seeker Jen Currin, 218 pgs, Anvil Press, anvilpress.com $20 Jen Currin’s debut fiction collection, containing 20 stories, explores themes of […]
‘Delet This’ is all about this year’s internet
Delet This MLA Chernoff, 60 pgs, Hybrid Heaven, $12 New Montreal press Hybrid Heaven’s Delet This is a quick, funny […]
Deeply personal ‘Safe Words’ handles real life beautifully
Safe Words Michelle Brown, 80 pgs, Palimpsest Press, palimpsestpress.ca, $18.95 If there’s one thing I learned from majoring in English, […]
‘Adagio’ an ominous sermon on the environment
Adagio for the Horizon Laurelyn Whitt, 106 pgs, Signature Editions, signature-editions.com, $17.95 Split over five sections, Larelyn Whitt’s new collection […]
Process your existential crisis with ‘The Traveller, Livre II’
The Traveller, Livre II: The One Inbetween FREDC & LPRZ, 108 pgs, TRIP comix & Éditions Moelle graphique, editionstrip.tumblr.com, $20 […]
Obesity bureaucracy is a bizarre satire in The Fatness
The Fatness Mark A. Rayner, 343 pgs, Monkeyjoy Press, markarayner.com, $24.99 Rayner’s punchy satire depicts the modern obesity epidemic (a […]