Ducks: Two Years in the Oil SandsKate BeatonDrawn and Quarterly, 2022 Review by Ellie Eberlee The headline published May 1, 2008, by the New York Times, read as follows: “Canadians Investigate Death of Ducks at Oil-Sands Project.” The article...
Safety Razor Emily Osborne Gordon Hill Press, 2023 Review by Cara Waterfall There is the body of myths passed down from generation to generation, and then there is our own body of myths, which spring from memory. In her...
Standing in the Forest of Being Alive Katie Farris Alice James Books, 2023 Review by ALHS Katie Farris’s debut collection, Standing in the Forest of Being Alive, is frank and vivacious, weaving out of the complexity of life an...
Best Young Woman Job BookEmma HealeyRandom House Canada, 2022 Review by Kristina Rothstein On first perusal, Emma Healey’s Best Young Woman Job Book might seem like a slightly unconventional memoir. It could be read as a young writer’s life...
Optic NerveMatthew Hollett Brick Books, 2023 Review by Stella Cali In this collection’s final poem, writer and visual artist Matthew Hollett describes the intimate space inside a woodstove, “that blackened cave where images spark / and flicker” (“Woodstove”). This...
Here at the CruxLeanne BoschmanSilver Bow Publishing, 2022 Review by Cynthia Sharp Leanne Boschman is an exemplary poet, human, and Earth citizen—a sister to the past, present, and future; to readers, memory, and verse. Here at the Crux is...
Love Me TenderConstance DebréTranslated by Holly JamesSemiotext(e), 2022 Review by Thea McLachlan “What is this insane world I’m living in?” Constance Debré asks midway through her memoir Love Me Tender (published by Semiotext(e), translated by Holly James). Caught in...
Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and PoetryEdited by David Ly and Daniel ZomparelliArsenal Pulp Press, 2022 Review by Sierra Riley Monsters and ghosts are inseparable from their queer contexts. Werewolves, Medusa, Mr. Hyde and Mothman—these creatures...
New HorizonsBy Kani KrishnanUnrestricted Editions, 2022 Review by Clara Otto The feeling of reaching out is a familiar one; we stretch out a hand, a fingertip—we whisper a word. In Kani Krishnan’s debut chapbook, New Horizons, Krishnan sends out...