Issue #71

Secrets: Surviving Jian Ghomeshi Zine, Ellie Anglin, ellieanglin.blogspot.com   As a Torontonian, I know all about Jian Ghomeshi’s recent legal […]

Puke Force Brian Chippendale, 120 pgs, Drawn & Quarterly, drawnandquarterly.com, $27.95 As far as punk oddities go, Brian Chippendale may […]

Hitler Shigeru Mizuki, 296 pgs, drawnandquarterly.com, $29.95Propaganda and willfully blind obedience are weapons of mass destruction. Such is Hitler’s legacy. […]

this Andy Weaver, 103 pgs, Chaudiere Books, chaudierebooks.com, $20 Ten pages of quotations foreground this collection and act as a […]

Big Kids Michael DeForge, Drawn & Quarterly, www.drawnandquarterly.com, 96 pgs, $19.95 Like most people who’ve ever read Michael DeForge’s work, I’ve […]

    In 2014, artist and activist Marie LeBlanc Flanagan announced a new Canadian holiday. Henceforth, she proclaimed on her […]

photo of Burdens by Robert Szkolnicki curated by Kristel Jax To read Kristel’s cover story on drone music in issue […]

photo of Burdens by Robert Szkolnicki curated by Kristel Jax To read Kristel’s cover story on drone music in issue […]

Myrmurs: An Exploded Sestina Shannon Maguire, 121 pgs, BookThug, bookthug.ca, $18 Shannon Maguire’s first collection of poems, fur(l) parachute (2014), […]

Malignant Metaphor Alanna Mitchell, 207 pages, ECW Press, ecwpress.com, $27.95 Analogy is a human impulse. The mind seeks logical connections […]

Good Trouble Joe Biel, 192 pgs, Microcosm Publishing, microcosmpublishing.com, $14.95 This was a really hard review to write, for a […]

Staying Alive Laura Sims, 72 pgs, Ugly Duckling Presse, uglyducklingpresse.org, $14 Structured as three poem sequences and an essay, Laura […]