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Review of Everything is Fine Here by Iryn Tushabe

Review of Everything is Fine Here by Iryn Tushabe

Everything is Fine Here  by Iryn Tushabe House of Anansi Press 320 pages $25 Can women in societies dominated by oppressive religious conviction, homophobia, and misogyny ever find peace and equality? This is the question at the heart of Everything is Fine Here, the...

Review of Blood Root by Jessica Hiemstra

Review of Blood Root by Jessica Hiemstra

Blood Root  by Jessica Hiemstra ECW Books 112 pages $22 Jessica Hiemstra’s latest poetry collection, Blood Root, explores themes of belonging, home, and the complexities of loss related to war and colonialism. Rarely shying away from the rawness of death and the...

Review of She’s a Lamb! by Meredith Hambrock

Review of She’s a Lamb! by Meredith Hambrock

She’s a Lamb! by Meredith Hambrock ECW Books 312 pages $25 In Meredith Hambrock’s She’s a Lamb!, protagonist Jessamyn St. Germain doesn’t just dream of stardom—she demands it, claws at it, deludes herself into believing it’s owed to her. Hambrock shines a spotlight on...

Review of Shadow Price by Farah Ghafoor

Review of Shadow Price by Farah Ghafoor

Shadow Price by Farah Ghafoor House of Anansi Press 128 pages $23 Ecopoetry is a field that often explores the boundaries of human, animal, and machine. Shadow Price, the debut collection from Farah Ghafoor, presents a groundbreaking take on ecopoetry, exploring these...

Review of Elseship by Tree Abraham

Review of Elseship by Tree Abraham

Elseship  by Tree Abraham Book*hug Press 282 pages $25 In this dazzling work of creative non-fiction that brings together perceptive prose and mesmerizing visuals, Ottawa-born writer and book designer Tree Abraham theorizes friendship, love, identity, and language by...

Review of Opening Ceremony by Laura Marie Marciano

Review of Opening Ceremony by Laura Marie Marciano

Opening Ceremony  by Laura Marie Marciano Metatron Press 64 pages $18 Laura Marie Marciano’s second poetic memoir, Opening Ceremony, will hit uncomfortably close to home for many aging Millennials—and Marciano does not hold back. Composed with the same candor and...

Review of Toxemia by Christine McNair

Review of Toxemia by Christine McNair

Toxemia by Christine McNair Book*hug Press 176 pages $23 Christine McNair’s memoir, Toxemia, is a deeply personal account of her experiences with pre-eclampsia, a life-threatening pregnancy condition marked by high blood pressure, piercing headaches, double vision,...

Review of I Hate Parties by Jes Battis

Review of I Hate Parties by Jes Battis

I Hate Parties by Jes Battis Nightwood Editions 102 pages $20 Jes Battis’s I Hate Parties is a nostalgic poetry collection that chronicles adolescence in the ‘80s and ‘90s—social anxiety and Discmans included—and is peppered with musings from an adult navigating the...

Review of All Hookers Go To Heaven by Angel B.H.

Review of All Hookers Go To Heaven by Angel B.H.

All Hookers Go To Heaven by Angel B.H. Invisible Publishing 368 pages $24 “Since the promise of eternal life was no longer on the horizon, I sought, instead, to experience the full expression of my own self-destruction. Instead of aiming for Heaven, I was now hurtling...

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