Reviews by Esther Chen This Love Is Mad Reciprocal – Liam Coady Glass Buffalo On the cover of Liam Coady’s chapbook This Love Is Mad Reciprocal, the blossoming branch of a cherry blossom tree bears fruit in the form...
Orange Christine Herzer Ugly Duckling Presse Review by Abby Paige “Poets are containers,” Christine Herzer asserts and further, “containers deserve respect.” The image of the container is central in her new chapbook, Orange. A container may be a...
The following is an excerpt from What the Poets Are Doing: Canadian Poets in Conversation, which will be published by Nightwood Editions in late November 2018. The book will feature conversations between twenty-two of Canada’s top modern poets. Marilyn Dumont:...
Interview by Tania De Rozario Thea Lim and I met in Singapore when we were twelve years old, in a queue to use the public telephone in the school canteen. We ended up classmates in high school and reconnected...
By Robert Colman Books discussed: Complete Physical by Shane Neilson (The Porcupine’s Quill, 2010) On Shaving Off His Face by Shane Neilson (The Porcupine’s Quill, 2015) Dysphoria by Shane Neilson (The Porcupine’s Quill, 2017) According to Deadly Force, a...
After the success of previous themed issues such as “Liminal“, “Bad“, and “Dreams” we decided we just had to do another one! PRISM’s RUIN issue seeks writing that interrogates destruction, loss, and what it means to rebuild. Ruin is not just about wanton...
Interview by Carleigh Baker Photo credit: Red Works Photography 2018 Eden Robinson’s much-anticipated book Trickster Drift, the sequel to Giller Prize-shortlisted Son of a Trickster, came out this October. Carleigh Baker, author of the award-winning short story collection Bad...