The Towers of BabylonMichelle KaeserFreehand Books, 2019 Winter WillowDeborah-Anne TunneyEnfield and Wizenty, 2019 Review by Marcie McCauley Near the beginning of Michelle Kaeser’s debut novel The Towers of Babylon (Freehand Books, 2019) there’s talk of Venezuela’s Torre David and,...
Vulgar. It’s a word reserved for only our most visceral reactions. Vulgar is ugly, crass, and a blatant rejection of good taste. It’s lowbrow. It’s crude. It is a challenge to the status quo. It is the voice of...
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...
Poem by Cynthia Dewi OkaArt by Emily Young-Ah Lee The winter issue of PRISM is on newsstands now. Order it here, and while you’re waiting at the mailbox, read this online exclusive poem by print contributor Cynthia Dewi Oka,...
