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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...

Review of Chores by Maggie Burton

Review of Chores by Maggie Burton

Chores by Maggie Burton Breakwater Books 64 pages $20 In the world of Maggie Burton's Chores, the tedious task can become something deep and fascinating. Chores is a collection of semi autobiographical freeverse poetry from multidisciplinary artist Maggie Burton....

Review of Roaming by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki

Review of Roaming by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki

Roaming by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki Drawn & Quarterly 444 pages $40 Cousins Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki, the award-winning dynamic duo behind Skim and This One Summer, have teamed up again to explore the in-between space of adolescence and adulthood....

Review of Any Other City by Hazel Jane Plante

Review of Any Other City by Hazel Jane Plante

Any Other City by Hazel Jane Plante Arsenal Pulp Press 288 pages $23 Any Other City, the second novel from Vancouverite Hazel Jane Plante, doesn’t look like a novel. It looks like a memoir—the memoir of transgender rock star, Tracy St. Cyr. Over her memoir’s A and B...

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