Review by Amber McMillan Regeneration Machine Joe Denham Nightwood Editions, 2015 Joe Denham is a fisherman and carpenter living on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast, and Regeneration Machine is his third book of poetry. Denham is not a poet churning...
Review by Sarah Higgins Leftovers The Cultch York Theatre Charles Demers is, like all good humans (and diamonds), multifaceted: comedian, author, teacher, socialist, dad, storyteller. And now, theatre artist. With Marcus Youssef and Neworld Theatre, Demers created Leftovers, presented...
Review by Sarah Higgins As the inaugural show in the Club PuSH, The PuSH International Performing Arts Festival presented Stewart Legere and The Accidental Mechanics Company’s Let’s Not Beat Each Other To Death. This one man, multi-genre performance, written...
Review by Carly Rosalie Vandergriendt The Mystics of Mile End Sigal Samuel Freehand Books 2015 As someone who lives on the proverbial other side of the tracks from Montreal’s Mile End neighbourhood, I had high expectations for Sigal Samuel’s...
Review by Adrick Brock Russell Smith’s latest collection of short fiction, Confidence (Biblioasis, 2015), catalogues the lives of Toronto’s has-been hipsters as they navigate the disappointments of their middle ages. Coolness is the philosopher’s stone in Smith’s world, and...
by Matthew Walsh The Polymers Adam Dickinson House of Anansi, 2013 Adam Dickinson’s most recent collection, The Polymers, is a fierce book of poetry. Inventive with language and form, it doesn’t shy away from a poetic experiment. Dickinson’s collection...