Review by Will Preston The Gods of Tango by Carolina de Robertis Penguin Random House Available May 17, 2016 It’s 1913, and Buenos Aires is a picture of bedlam. Exploding with an influx of immigrants, the city is a...
Review by Wendy Bone Born Out of This Christine Lowther Caitlin Press, 2014 “I’ve been stamped both ‘nature girl’ and punk rocker,” writes Christine Lowther in her memoir, Born Out of This. “Like other writers, I’m industrious and rebellious,...
Review by Carly Rosalie Vandergriendt Breakneck Nelly Arcan Jacob Homel, translation Anvil Press, 2015 First published in French as À ciel ouvert in 2007, Breakneck is the last of Québécoise writer Nelly Arcan’s body of work to be translated into...
Review by Geoffrey Nilson Riffs Dennis Lee Brick Books Classics, 2015 The diversity of Dennis Lee’s writing can be daunting. From the Governor General’s Award winning philosophical inquiry of Civil Elegies to the experimental polyphony of his most recent...
Review by K.C. Novak Wanda Sykes JFL Northwest Comedy Festival, Vancouver February 18-27, 2016 The regal nature of the Queen Elizabeth Theatre was relieved of its pomp with only two hanging banners narrowing the colossal stage. There was one...
Review by Esther Griffin Designated Mourner by Catherine Owen ECW Press Catherine Owen’s latest book of poetry, Designated Mourner, is an elegy to her partner, who died suddenly at the age of 29 after his drug use led to...
Review by Jessica Torrens In A Time of No Song By Jeff Bien Exile Editions, 2015 In this abundant volume of free verse, and his previous collection, A Taste of Creation, Jeff Bien works a rapturous magic by pushing...
Chinkstar Jon Chan Simpson Coach House Books, 2015 Review by Clara Kumagai Run is a Chinese-Scottish seventeen-year-old in Red Deer, Alberta, and he’s not particularly fond of his older brother. They clash, fight, and wrestle, and Run wonders how...
Review by Sasha Singer-Wilson Huff Written and performed by Cliff Cardinal Directed by Karin Randoja The Firehall Arts Centre and PuSh International Performing Arts Festival A Native Earth Performing Arts Production Breath is at the center of Huff. In...