Review by Robert Colman The Witch of the Inner Wood M. Travis Lane Goose Lane Editions, 2016 M. Travis Lane has had a long and distinguished poetry career in Canada. Hers may not be quite the household name as...
Review by Carly Rosalie Vandergriendt The Orange Grove Larry Tremblay Sheila Fischman, translation Biblioasis, 2015 Brothers David Clerson Katia Grubisic, translation QC Fiction, 2016 Currently long-listed for the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award, Larry Tremblay’s The Orange Grove opens...
Review by Deborah Vail The Conjoined by Jen Sookfong Lee ECW Press, 2016 A Vancouver-based writer born and raised on the city’s Downtown Eastside, Jen Sookfong Lee coaxes her readers down the frightening alleys and street corners of this...
Rebecca Salazar is a PhD candidate and Vanier scholar at UNB. Her first poetry chapbook is Guzzle (Anstruther), and other writings have appeared in The Malahat Review, Lemon Hound, and Partisan. She edits for Qwerty, The Fiddlehead, and icehouse...
Interview by Shazia Hafiz Ramji Jay Gamble is a poet, academic, and author of the long poem, Book of Knots, recently published by BookThug. The publisher says that Gamble’s poems “seek to engage with life’s failure, by building ‘a...
Interview by Nathaniel G. Moore Vancouver-based author Peter Babiak’s new book of essays Garage Criticism: Cultural Missives in an Age of Distraction was recently published by Anvil Press. John Moore, writing for BC Bookworld praised Babiak for his new...
Review by Will Preston The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood Allen & Unwin, 2015 Europa editions, 2016 Yolanda wakes. She’s in an unfamiliar room, somewhere deep in the Australian outback. The door has no handle; a narrow...
Mahak Jain is the author of the picture book Maya, which was a CBC Best Book of the Year, a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, and a Canadian Children’s Book Centre’s Best Book for Kids and Teens starred...
Interview by A. Niamh Higgins Laura Farina always seems to be in the right place at the right time. The Ottawa-born poet, now based in Vancouver, published her first collection, This Woman Alphabetical (49th Shelf, 2005), at age twenty-four—the kind...