SevenFarzana DoctorDundurn Toronto, 2020 Review by Kiran Bhat The number seven is a number of great meaning in many religions, particularly the Abrahamic ones. The day of rest after creation was the seventh; the number of heavens, or afterworlds,...
Interview by Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike Peter Midgley’s latest collection, let us not think of them as barbarians (NeWest Press, 2019), is a “sensual and intimate” exploration and reconfiguration of Namibia’s history, philosophy, and relationship to the present. It was...
Written by Jaminnia R. States “Meditations on My Face” was the first runner-up in PRISM’s 2020 Creative Non-Fiction Contest, judged by Alexander Chee. To read the other winning essays, pick up a copy of Issue 59.2 from our online...
Photo Credit: Una RoulstonReview by A.N. Higgins Emma Donoghue is the author of eleven novels for adults––including Room, a finalist for the Man Booker Prize––two novels for children, and five short story collections, as well as various plays, screenplays,...
DREAM FRAGMENTS (Cactus Press, 2020)Mirabel Review by Meggie Royer Mirabel’s DREAM FRAGMENTS reads like one extended descent into sleep––slipping through shadowy corridors and mirrors, grasping for something that may or may not be there. Throughout her pages, the reader...
Interview by Bevan Thomas In 2007, aspiring cartoonist Jeffrey Ellis decided to unite Vancouver’s comics artists, and Cloudscape Comics was born. Over a decade later, Cloudscape Comics has published numerous graphic novels and anthologies to showcase both veteran cartoonists...
Less Sweet Than Chocolate or Concrete by Aimee LouwFrog Hollow Press, 2020 Review by Neil Surkan “Crip Poetics is my thesis title / I don’t really know what poetics means.” So ends the penultimate poem in Aimee Louw’s new...
Photo by Aaron VandenbrinkInterview by Natasha Ramoutar Emma Hansen’s debut memoir Still ebbs and flows around the reader, much like its recurring motif of water. At times, it brims with heartbreak; at other times, it is tender and overflowing...
The first news of 2021: Our Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize winners, as chosen by contest judge Ariana Brown! Congratulations Karen, Natalie, and Imani! Grand Prize “only the bottom left quadrant of my hair is full” by Karen Lee karen...
