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Review of Bird Suit by Sydney Hegele

Review of Bird Suit by Sydney Hegele

Bird Suit by Sydney Hegele Invisible Publishing 272 pages $16.95 “The Port Peter peaches lure tourists,” begins Sydney Hegele’s debut novel, Bird Suit, and their hypnotic writing lures readers into this sickly-sweet saga just as effectively. Nestled on the shores of...

Review of I Will Get Up Off Of by Simina Banu

Review of I Will Get Up Off Of by Simina Banu

I Will Get Up Off Of  by Simina Banu Coach House Books 72 pages $24 Following her award-winning debut poetry collection POP, Montreal-based poet Simina Banu’s signature blend of pop culture, illustration, and poignant portrayal of life’s struggles continues in I Will...

Review of Good Want by Domenica Martinello

Review of Good Want by Domenica Martinello

Good Want by Domenica Martinello Coach House Books 109 pages $24 Domenica Martinello’s Good Want lies in the chasms separating good from bad, speech from silence, and faith from disbelief, producing a meditative collection of poems that gets to the core of desire as a...

Review of Cathedral/Grove by Susan Glickman

Review of Cathedral/Grove by Susan Glickman

Cathedral/Grove by Susan Glickman Vehicule Press 80 pages $20 In her newest poetry collection, Susan Glickman provides the reader with a reconstructed world—that is, Cathedral/Grove is a collection full of complex images and themes that contrast and build upon each...

Review of Circle Tour by Eva Tihanyi

Review of Circle Tour by Eva Tihanyi

Circle Tour by Eva Tihanyi Inanna Publications 130 pages $10 digital, $19 print Gentle and delicate, Eva Tihanyi’s ninth poetry collection, Circle Tour, offers nature- and art-focused poetry without shying away from the difficulties of our current reality. As the...

Review of Crushed Wild Mint by Jess Housty

Review of Crushed Wild Mint by Jess Housty

Crushed Wild Mint by Jess Housty Nightwood Editions 121 pages $20 Crushed Wild Mint is a volume of poetry about inheritance. Not just the inheritance of blood, traditions, values, and skills allocated by older relatives, but also the inheritance of the land. Jess...

Review of Her Body Among Animals by Paola Ferrante

Review of Her Body Among Animals by Paola Ferrante

Her Body Among Animals by Paola Ferrante Book*hug Press 264 pages $23 Paola Ferrante’s debut short story collection, Her Body Among Animals, blends genres and fantastical worlds that further the reader’s experience of what it means to be a woman and to be alive today....

Review of To the Forest by Anaïs Barbeau- Lavalette

Review of To the Forest by Anaïs Barbeau- Lavalette

To the Forest by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette (translated by Rhonda Mullins) Coach House Books 194 pages $24 Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette’s autobiographical novel, To the Forest, is one of the few good things to come out of COVID-19. The narrator flees Montreal with her...

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