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Category Archives: Reviews
REVIEW: Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme
Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme Ivan Coyote and Zena Sharman, eds. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2011 Reviewed by Sigal Samuel “Are you attracted to women more feminine than you? Then you’re butch. Are you attracted to women more masculine than … Continue reading
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Tagged Elaine Miller, Ivan Coyote, Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme, Sigal Samuel, Xena Sharman
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REVIEW: Pretty, by Greg Kearney
Pretty By Greg Kearney Exile, 2011 Reviewed by Veronique West Awkward, overweight, washed-up, sexually-frustrated, disenchanted: the incredibly average misfits who people Greg Kearney’s set of short stories are anything but pretty – and therein lies their appeal. Kearney’s narratives are … Continue reading
REVIEW: Girlwood
Girlwood By Jennifer Still Brick Books, 2011 Reviewed by Leah Horlick I first encountered Jennifer Still’s nest as a chapbook released by JackPine Press in 2010. Enveloped in a macrame and cross-stitched pouch crafted from 1970s upholstery, Still’s poems were … Continue reading
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Tagged Brick Books, Creative Writing, Girlwood, JackPine Press, Jennifer Still, leah horlick, Review, Reviews
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Review: A Walker in the City
A Walker in the City By Meira Cook Brick Books Reviewed by Erin Flegg Poet Meira Cook’s latest collection of poetry, A Walker in the City,presents the reader with an interesting challenge. To keep pace, the reader has to maintain the … Continue reading
REVIEW: THE CHAIRS ARE WHERE THE PEOPLE GO
The Chairs Are Where People Go: How To Live, Work, and Play in the City By Misha Glouberman with Sheila Heti Faber and Faber Reviewed by Cara Woodruff Excerpt to be featured in PRISM international 50:1 “There’s a thoughtlessness in … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Experimental music, Harvard, Improv, inspiration, mental health, Misha Glouberman, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Sheila Heti, Toronto
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REVIEW: The Midnight Disease
The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer’s Block, and the Creative Brain By Alice Weaver Flaherty Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Reviewed by Erika Thorkelson Alice W. Flaherty remembers the moment she went from being a scientist to being a writer—it … Continue reading
Review: Arrivals and Departures
Arrivals and Departures By Nina Berkhout Buschek Books Reviewed by Kevin Spenst As if a small museum of metaphor and simile, Nina Berkhout’s fourth collection of poetry, Arrivals and Departures, (BuschekBooks) displays a masterful framing narrative excavated from the emotions … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrivals and Departures, end of relationship, Kevin Spenst, Nina Berkhout. Buschek Books, poetry, Review
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REVIEW: Gangson
Gangson by Andy Weaver NeWest Press Reviewed by Jordan Abel On the bus, I read through Andy Weaver’s latest entry—Gangson, NeWest Press—a collection of poems, a rectangular mustard coloured book. And the language surprises me because each word seems in … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Weaver, Cut-ups, Experimental, Gangson, Jordan Abel, NeWest Press, Review
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REVIEW: After Canaan
After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing and Region By Wayde Compton Arsenal Pulp Press Reviewed by Kaitlin Fontana In an essay in his new collection, After Canaan, called “The Repossession of Fred Booker,” about (among others) writing, race, rap, lit … Continue reading
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Tagged After Canaan, Arsenal Pulp, Kaitlin Fontana, racializiation, Vancouver, Wayde Compton
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