“The Age of Hyper-Reality” is a text is dated from the ‘80s with the aesthetics to match
The Age of Hyper-Reality Zine, Robin N., 12 pgs, [email protected] Despite the subtitle “Jean Baudrillard and the Politics of Today,” […]
Issue 84
Fiction: Small Miracles
The only memento I kept of Marc was one cracked tooth, an anniversary gift punched right out of my mouth. […]
“K!MMORTAL” is a combination of pop, R&B, and rapid-fire, spoken word rants
K!MMORTAL X Marks The Swirl Coax Records coaxrecords.com This curious combination of pop, R&B, and rapid-fire, spoken word rants comes […]
Ian Daniel Kehoe’s “Secret Republic” is intimate, confessional, and lyrically dense
Ian Daniel Kehoe Secret Republic You’ve Changed Records youvechangedrecords.com This record is not unlike watching John O’Regan step out from […]
“Vinegar” is an intimate affair fixating on absence and loneliness
Vinegar Vain Mina Records vainmina.bandcamp.com The snail’s pace of these songs and their hushed, rambling vocals are more than a […]
“Ich Will Nix Alter Werten” is a riveting story and an ingenious reworking of a small and tragic historical episode
Ich Will Nix Alter Werten Litzine, Arielle Burgdorf, 24 pgs., [email protected],$5 USD Arielle Burgdorf blurs fiction and reality in this epistolary […]
“Diana’s Song” is an ever-familiar suburban tragedy — sentimental, melancholy, a first love after which she will forever pine
Diana’s Song Litzine, Ariel Bader-Shamai, 13 pgs, Second Run, [email protected] This short series of poems remembers, laments, celebrates the half-requited love […]
This poetry book is all about “denpa”: a Japanese term for people who are disconnected from those around them
denpa poems 1 Chapbook, Gabriel Wainio-Théberge, 16 pgs, baroquespiral.tumblr.com “Denpa” is a Japanese term for people who are disconnected from […]
Walsh isn’t afraid to get down in the dirt in “These are not the potatoes of my youth”
These are not the potatoes of my youth Matthew Walsh, 92 pgs, Goose Lane Editions, gooselane.com, $19.95 Etched in white […]
“On the Count of None” blurs the lines between message and tone
On the Count of None Allison Chrisholm, 68 pgs, A Feed Dog Book, anvilpress.com, $18 Surreal and succinct, Kingston poet […]
“It Begins with the Body” invites you to laugh, get angry, feel empowered, and manage everyday difficulties with blunt irony
It Begins with the Body Hana Shafi, 102 pgs, Book*hug, bookhugpress.ca, $18 With punchy humour and comic inspired sketches, Shafi […]
“Yellow Yellow” is a storybook for curious kids, and a picture book for comic-fanatical adults
Yellow Yellow Frank Asch & Mark Alan Stamaty, 48 pgs, Enfant, drawnandquarterly.com, $17.95 Children’s writer Frank Asch and acclaimed cartoonist […]