The Red Monkey Double Happiness Book
The Red Monkey Double Happiness Book, the second North American release by South African cartoonist Joe Daly, presents two stories […]
Issue 47
Peeling Onions Volume 1
Part art journal, part autobio strip, Peeling Onions is the first in a collection of Lezley Davidson’s regularly updated webcomics, […]
Jan’s Atomic Heart
As a first effort, Simon Roy’s not-quite near-future sci-fi tale Jan’s Atomic Heartholds promise, revealing a young creator with the […]
I’m Crazy
There’s nothing funny about growing up into adulthood with a mental illness. It happens to a lot of people, and […]
The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2009
Tightrope Books and series editor, Molly Peacock, invited A.F. Moritz to be their guest editor of The Best Canadian Poetry […]
Something Burned Along the Southern Border
Robert Earl Stewart can be lively: “Dopplering gibbous. Cricket/moon./ Sweetgrass and loosestrife/alive in the night/ditches.” He can also be clever: […]
Paper Radio
Paper Radio is written with the confidence of a teenager carving her arm. In poems like “Honour Roll Student Drunk […]
Our Extraordinary Monsters
As a rule, readers should be very wary of poems with titles that offer two nouns linked with the word […]
God of Missed Connections
T.S. Eliot wrote that “the progress of an artist is a continual self sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.” In […]
Back Off, Assassin! New and Selected Poems
Jim Smith — Toronto small press provocateur, ex-publisher of The Front, civil litigator and adventurous, heroic poet — is back […]
Declining America
It’s tough to pull off a book with “America” in the title. Just ask Rob Budde. His Declining America is […]
Wanton
Angela Hibbs refers to Anne Sexton stylistically and thematically in some of the poems in Wanton. As in Sexton’s work, […]