Issue #70

Book Review: Stroppy

Stroppy Marc Bell, 64 pages, Drawn & Quarterly, drawnandquarterly.com, $24.95 There is probably no living artist who can depict a […]

Book Review: Poetry is Useless

Poetry is Useless Anders Nilsen, 224 pgs, Drawn & Quarterly, drawnandquarterly.com, $37.95  It’s useful for adults to take most of […]

Book Review: Killing and Dying

Killing and Dying Adrian Tomine, 121 pages, Drawn and Quarterly, drawnandquarterly.com, $26.95 In the 12th installment of the Optic Nerve […]

Book Review: Junction

Junction Nathan Jurevicius, 52 pgs, Koyama Press, koyamapress.com, $27.95 “I wonder what I’ll look like this year? An exotic plant? […]

Book Review: Sideshow Concessions

Sideshow Concessions Lucas Crawford, 91 pgs, Invisible Publishing, invisiblepublishing.com, $15.95 Lucas Crawford includes a list of imaginary Canadian Literature Premises […]

Book Review: Fantasy

Fantasy Ben Fama, 80 pgs, Ugly Duckling Presse, uglyducklingpresse.org, $17 Halfway through this second collection of poetry by Ben Fama, […]

Chapbook Review: Understander

Understander Chapbook, N.W. Lea, Chaudiere Books, chaudierebooks.com, $15 N.W. Lea is a poet of brevity, and the poems of Understander […]

Book Review: The Well-Dressed Wound

The Well-Dressed Wound Derek McCormack, 72 pages, Semiotext(e)/MIT Press, mitpress.mit.edu, $12.95 I’m here for experimental, in-your-face, transgressive literature. I’ll read […]

Book Review: Don’t Cry Wolfman Chicago

Don’t Cry Wolfman Chicago Nate Beaty, 120 pgs, self-published, available from topshelfcomix.com, $9.99. In a world where the late Harvey Pekar […]

Chapbook Review: Simplified Holy Passage

Simplified Holy Passage Chapbook, Elizabeth Robinson, above/ground press, abovegroundpress.blogspot.com, $4 A pleasant continuity inhabits these poems — like a snowball […]

Chapbook Review: Conditional

Conditional Chapbook, Andrew McEwan, JackPine Press, jackpinepress.com, $15 It’s hard to tell if this chapbook is more poetry or collage. […]