Gyasi’s debut novel, Homegoing is a timely and important contribution to literature, and to conversations about anti-black racism in popular culture . . . This novel should be read within this context, giving pause for reflection and examination on how we allowed...
Many of Thom’s poems deploy this bold, storytelling voice, foregrounding the wisdom of what is said, experienced, lived, rumoured, and gossiped in lieu of traditional history with its myopia of normativity. a place called No Homeland consistently examines the...
Koller’s novel explores universal concepts of what it means to exist and grow, to root and transplant—as an artist, a woman, a human, a living thing. Art Lessons has the potential to take root in your heart—let it. “Trees, for me, are like humans,” writes Cassie, the...
Part art criticism, part biography, part lyric journey, Painter, Poet, Mountain studies the intersection of inspiration, experience, and creation that is inherent to various forms of artistic expression. Ut pictura poesis (“Just as painting, so, too, poetry”), perhaps...
Pulsing with an old-world, occult feel, Barclay’s poetry draws the reader back in time with its tarot readers, bearded ladies, riding caps, griffins, and witchery. By Adèle Barclay Nightwood Editions, 96 pages, $18.95 2016 “Where are our time machines?” asks the...
With unique humour and style, Paper Teeth introduces us to a fresh voice in Canadian short fiction. Paper Teeth by Lauralyn Chow, NeWest Press, 178 pages, $19.95, 2016 Alberta writer Lauralyn Chow opens her debut short story collection Paper Teeth with a description...
In Work & Days, Taylor casts the physical attributes of the ecological world in a deeply poetic light. Tess Taylor’s Work & Days performs a moral, political, material, spiritual environmentalism. This calendric cycle of twenty-eight poems studies the...
By recounting the unresolved hurt of her past, and facing the uncertainty of her future, Harrison—who was diagnosed with advanced metastatic breast cancer in 2013—has found one way to reclaim power from the “bogeyman” that is her illness. “It’s the unspoken that is...
Powerful in its brevity, Songs of Exile explores displacement, intimacy, and fear in short, chaotic bursts. The poems that populate Songs of Exile, Bänoo Zan’s first English collection of poetry, aren’t autobiographical; however, they reveal a deep empathy for those...
Oscar of Between is a dynamic work of startling insight. Betsy Warland’s latest book, one of the first titles published by Dagger Editions, Caitlin Press’s new imprint for queer women writers, is a cross-genre work of lyrical prose that explores through candid,...
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In the new era of CanCon, as feminists and writers it is our task to reject this Canadian exceptionalism, this too-comfortable back-patting. How can we begin to imagine alternative arts economies, Indigenous economies around art, that start with treaty, that align with BDS? What art, what literature, would such a system free us to create?
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