Issue 31

In high school, I was told by an English teacher that James Joyce walked the streets to clear his mind, […]

I don’t care where you’re headed, at its deepest core, all travel is a spiritual exercise. There’s something about packing […]

This book should come with a CD. Walker’s encyclopaedic knowledge of reggae artists, not to mention jazz, ska, mento and […]

Who is the surrealist poet of your imagination? Critical theorist Herbert Marcuse argued that our thoughts, perspectives and understandings of […]

Lisa Crystal Carver’s memoir, Drugs are Nice, is a beautifully designed (truly “post-punk” in its beige and pink) whirlwind of […]

Now that Showcase is playing re-runs of Degrassi from the beginning of junior high to the end of high school, […]

The final installment of an autobiographical punk trilogy that began with Mosquitoes and Whiskey, I’m On the Guest List finds […]

Sylvia Legris’ Nerve Squall is a wonderfully strange, schizo-phonic masterpiece. Her ability to pinpoint and diagnose certain obsessive, neurotic capabilities […]

O’Hearn’s poetry has the ability to separate the casual observer of poetry-as-craft from the engaged reader, who chooses to implicate […]

This short collection of poems is an interesting mixture of the surprising and the predictable. I most enjoyed Pohl-Weary’s poems […]

Switch & Shift is a new anthology of Canadian avant-garde poetry, a field in which Canadian writers have excelled in […]

Can one be a fan of both poetry and sports? On Superbowl Sunday there were two excellent poetry readings scheduled […]