Book Review

Writing Life

The first time I saw Bravo’s TV show Writing Life corresponded to the same time I was reading the anthology, […]

Strange Ghosts

Strange Ghosts is a thoughtfully guided tour through novelist, playwright and AIDS activist Darren Greer’s philosophies and experiences. Although it […]

Shall: Ghazals

A Vancouver poet shifts the traditional, compact Persian form, capturing emotions such as restlessness and regret while creating West Coast […]

A Curious Beatitude

Postcards from the Andes collide with treatises from a lakeside childhood home in Manitoba, while naked trees canoodle with feeding […]

Pas de Deux

A former ballerina begins this lyric adagio with an early memory of a pretty fuschia tutu and, delving into the […]

Home of Sudden Service

Veering between small town dangers and suburban pitfalls, Bachinsky’s punk poems eschew landscapes and lyricism and rock the coming-of-age trajectory. […]

Tacoma Narrows

Mitchell Parry’s Tacoma Narrows makes it almost impossible to be a critic. These buoyant poems show control and wisdom over […]

radiant danse uv being

A review of this collection is difficult, as one feels compelled to address bill bissett’s long and varied career before […]

Curses

This collection of Kevin Huizenga’s comics may appear to reflect the mundane, everyday lives of middle class North Americans, but […]

Lucky

The Ignatz Award-winning artist Gabrielle Bell’s autobiographical graphic novel tells the story of her life as a struggling 20-something artist […]