Reviews

If this were a movie, I’d describe it as Cocoon meets Pi, or maybe Miss Marple meets Pi. Of course, […]

I.V. Lounge Nights is a compilation of pieces written and read by the authors who came to Toronto’s I.V. Lounge […]

“I kneel on the stage. Unbuckle his belt. Tug down his trousers. I lick his underpants like it’s cotton I […]

Winter Tennis is Todd Swift’s fourth collection and is pleasingly hard to pin down. Although there are recurrent themes and […]

If Track Changes were a poetic form, Kate Eichorn would be its master. In her borderline book-art poetic debut (as […]

Jason Camlot pulls no punches with his third collection The Debaucher. His elegiac series to Rob Allen boasts a clear […]

The urban masculine form has long been a rhetorical faded denim and stubble kind of thing: a pose without conscience. […]

A poetry book about the canoe — how Canadian can you get? Guichon then adds a nuclear family into the […]

RM Vaughan’s latest collection of poetry works on the tensions between betrayed and traitor. Telling the story of a therapist […]

At times poet Daphne Gottlieb is operating without a poetry manuscript manual, corrosively entering and occupying the literary spaces of […]

Books based on other books (aka. parallel novels) often use the original story as inspiration, but then create something entirely […]

Ross’s book shows off both his surreal craftsmanship and his emotional dexterity. The middle section about the loss of family […]