Reviews

Filling Station editor and wry poetic trickster Jason Christie points a sharpened stick at Canadian politics, institutions, media and grammar. […]

Like its title suggests, Creamsicle Stick Shivs is a sweet, sticky collection of poems. But Stiles is rarely the “Nice […]

Some books are best read in a certain season. The cold of winter seems a good time to read about […]

Jukebox Music is Tony Nesca’s dedication to music. I know this because it says so on the last page of […]

Mark Young has been writing poetry for over 45 years. That’s a long time, and if you think that someone […]

Cribbing its title from Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class, Fiorentino’s Theory showcases the poet self-consciously edging himself away […]

This tidy volume purports to contain the best of the first nine issues of Wag Magazine, a self-published zine of […]

Attitude is an ongoing collection of subversive cartoon-style political commentary. This edition features seasoned political cartoonist Stephanie McMillan. The title […]

A Nut at the Opera is a wonderful book about a fictitious world of tenors and sopranos. Although there’s not […]

An essential rite of passage in the 1980s was the aromatic romance of the local videogame arcade: an unavoidable place […]

Miss Lamp is the strangest book I’ve come across in a while. Quirky, sweet, inventive and grotesque, this literary novel […]

Death and dissatisfaction pervade Jacqueline Honnet’s narratives. In “Funeral Stories,” a husband torments his wife with questions about what she […]