A Safe Girl to LoveCasey PlettArsenal Pulp Press, 2023 Review by Roz Milner For a few years, Casey Plett’s first book, A Safe Girl to Love, was hard to find. Originally published by Topside Press almost a decade ago,...
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...
Photo credit: Kayla MacInnisInterview by Franz Seachel River Meets the Sea by Rachael Moorthy is a moving tale about the complex nature of identity. Filled with mouthwatering descriptions of food and stunning depictions of Coast Salish lands, this story...
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...
Calling all writers! PRISM Reviews is currently accepting interviews and reviews of prose, theatre, poetry, creative nonfiction, and graphic forms (600-1300 words). We want interviews that delve into the creative realms of writers and theatremakers. We want reviews that...
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...