Hearts AmokKevin SpenstAnvil Press, 2020 Review by Robert Colman Kevin Spenst has been inextricably linked to Canada’s small press poetry world for the better part of the past decade. Prior to 2020’s Hearts Amok (Anvil Press) he’d published not...
Designated MournerCatherine OwenECW Press, 2014 Riven Catherine OwenECW Press, 2020 Review by Kim Trainor Last night I went down to the river, the Fraser slipping through Delta’s fingers, past Westham Island, mud-green flow of water tipped silver out to sea....
Grand Union: StoriesZadie SmithHamish Hamilton, 2019 Review by B. H. Lake Zadie Smith, the author of such masterworks of contemporary literature as White Teeth, Feel Free, and Swing Time, published a new collection of short stories in the fall...
Photo by Jennifer IvingsInterview by A.N. Higgins Tanya Boteju’s first book, Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens, published in 2019, is a Young Adult (YA) novel about a 17-year-old queer, mixed Brown girl who, over the course of one life-changing summer,...
How To Pronounce KnifeSouvankham Thammavongsa McClelland & Stewart, 2020 Review by Leslie Palleson In a recent interview with the Atlantic, Souvankham Thammavongsa describes laughter as the cornerstone of the stories in her debut collection How to Pronounce Knife. “Laughter does...
Photo by Anton HurInterview by Alex Valente Alex Valente: Anton, it is a pleasure to finally have a one-on-one conversation—I’m glad I finally have a chance to talk to you without the Twitter algorithm getting in the way! Your...
We are delighted to share an excerpt from “The Jellyfish” by Alisha Dukelow, which appears in issue 58.4. This is a story we read over and over again, discovering something new each time—and each time, it stayed with us...
Written by Ngwatilo MawiyooArtwork “untitled (earthの日)” by eryn kimura The summer issue of PRISM is here! Order it online, and while you’re waiting at the mailbox, read this online exclusive poem! A crow glides past maple leaves. On earthan open...
The idea of a typical “Canadian” is a concept that requires dismantling, and Moni Brar challenges this fallacy in her carefully constructed poem “What You Want Doesn’t Matter”, now available to read in our summer issue (58.4). Rife with...