If a Carp Dreams of the Milky WayBy Jasmine Gui, with art by Brianna TosswillPenrose Press, 2019 Review by Manahil Bandukwala Published by Penrose Press, Jasmine Gui’s chapbook, If a Carp Dreams of the Milky Way explores mythology through...
Photo by David Mandville Get to know Carmella Gray-Cosgrove, whose story “The Dance of the Cygnets” appears in our SPRAWL issue (58.3). Symbiotic relationships are at the core of this piece of short fiction, in which the narrator transits...
The End of the End of the EarthJonathan FranzenFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018 Review by B.H. Lake Jonathan Franzen has been called many things. In 2010, his picture appeared on the cover of Time magazine next to the words:...
Look Here Look Away Look Again Edward Carson McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019 Review by David Swartz Edward Carson´s Look Here Look Away Look Again (McGill-Queen’s University Press 2019) is a book of poems about poetic vision. I’m struck by the beautiful...
Photo by Brandi Bird The Growing Room Festival is taking place March 11-15, 2020. Check out their website for upcoming events, as well as accessibility info and their community guidelines for the festival. Below is an interview with festival...
Interview by Chimedum Ohaegbu A Growing Room 2020 Festival author, NASRA is a queer, Muslim, Oromo curator/creator living in Amiskwaciwȃskahikan (Edmonton) on Treaty 6 territory. They were the Youth Poet Laureate of Edmonton from 2016 to 2017. They are...
Photo by Erin FleggInterview by David Ly After a successful debut with If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You (Nightwood Editions, 2016), Adèle Barclay has reached out to us again with yet another stellar collection...
UnmeaningableRoxanna BennettGordon Hill Press, 2019 A Cemetery for HolesTom Prime and Gary BarwinGordon Hill Press, 2019 Reviews by Robert Colman Starting a small press is a precarious, quixotic enterprise. It isn’t just the low (or zero) pay and long...
AriaNazanine HozarKnopf Canada, 2019 Review by Elina Taillon In the years prior to the Iranian revolution, a baby girl is abandoned in an alleyway in Tehran. Found by a man who will become her adoptive father, her life is...