I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes From the End of the WorldKai Cheng ThomArsenal Pulp Press, 2019 Review by Jaz Papadopoulos When I first heard the phrase “A Trans Girl’s Notes From the End of the...
Photo of Anne Stone by Wayde ComptonPhoto of Wayde Compton by Anne Stone In anticipation of the release of our FIGURES issue (58.1), we’re thrilled to share an excerpt from “Antiquing in Vermont” by Anne Stone and Wayde Compton....
In 2018 I edited the interview collection What the Poets Are Doing: Canadian Poets in Converstion (Nightwood Editions). In the process, I learned of all the ways an equal conversation between two poets, as opposed to a unidirectional interview,...
Put Your Hand in Mine Elaine WooSignature Editions, 2019 Review by Kim Trainor Vancouver poet Elaine Woo’s first collection, Cycling with the Dragon (Nightwood Editions, 2014), had an often whimsical tone, but despite the poems that focussed on joy and...
Reviews by Tasha Hefford Fool Muun Komming! When I fall in love with a thing, I fall hard. I fall completely. I am locked into the love with a magic oblivion. I can’t see what others perceive as weird,...
Vic City ExpressYanis Tsirbas. Translator: Fred A. ReedBaraka books, 2018 Review by Sanad Tabbaa Vic City Express by Yannis Tsirbas is, above all else, a practice in world-building. Similar to the little maps on the inside cover of pop...
Meticulous, Sad and Lonely Ian Roy BuschekBooks, 2015 Review by Samarra Goldglas A boy kills his brother for some peace and quiet, a baby regularly grows nickels behind his ear, and a neglectful father escapes a mugging by screaming...
Review by Nathaniel G. Moore Lisa Bird-Wilson is a Cree-Metis writer from Saskatchewan, whose writing has appeared in a number of literary magazines and anthologies, including Grain, Prairie Fire, The Dalhousie Review, Geist, kimiwan, cîhcêwêsin and Best Canadian Essays. She is the author of the novel Just Pretending (Coteau...
PRISM is pleased to present an excerpt from “And the Moon Spun Round Like a Top” by Hiromi Goto, upcoming in Issue 55.3. Hiromi gratefully acknowledges funding from the Canada Council for the Arts which supported the writing of...