The Animal Bridegroom
The Animal Bridegroom by Sandra Kasturi is an intriguing collection of poems rich in layered meanings and mythical allusions. It […]
Book Review
The Alphabet Game: a bpNichol reader
Barrie Phillip Nichol aka bpNichol experimented with visual and concrete poetry, performed as a member of The Four Horsemen and […]
The N.B. Crew: Warm Meals, Cold Bodies, Hot Lead
The N.B. (Ninja Burger) Crew is an online comic about a group of wise cracking ninjas who own and operate […]
All Over Coffee
Paul Madonna takes a one-panel comic and turns the punch line into poetry. The images are of rooftops, power lines […]
The Great Hopeful Someday
The black and white illustrations in Elizabeth Belliveau’s The Great Hopeful Someday are very simple, using uneven lines and dotting […]
Reel Asian: Asian Canada on Screen
The Reel Asian Film Festival, one of my favourite film festivals, has inspired the first anthology of its kind that […]
God Laughs When You Die
“You possess a most dangerous gift; the capacity…to understand,” says the pig farmer to the strong, noble yet hideous protagonist […]
Long Story Short
My first introduction to Elyse Friedman was a rough draft she read at a Fictitious Reading night at This Ain’t […]
The Journey Prize Stories 19
The annual Journey Prize is supposed to be awarded for the best work of Canadian short fiction by an emerging […]
Isolated: Two Plays
Classic dystopian overtones prevail in MacArthur’s complementary pair of plays. Isolated exposes the panicked motives and desperate longings of the […]
The Girls Who Saw Everything
At first I was skeptical about The Girls Who Saw Everything for the following reasons: (1) this book about a […]
A Fine Ending
First off, this is not a novel. A novel has conflict, rising action, and a climax in which the lives […]