The FutureCatherine Leroux (Translated by Susan Ouriou)Biblioasis, 2023 Review by Marcie McCauley Catherine Leroux’s novel The Future (freshly translated by Susan Ouriou) presents a complex, layered story that probes how people navigate turbulent times, alone and together. She asks...
Former PRISM poetry editor (2014-15) Rob Taylor sat down with recent City of Victoria Butler Book Prize finalist Patricia Young to discuss her nominated poetry collection (and ninth, total) “Short Takes on the Apocalypse“. Chagall’s Lovers – Patricia Young ...
Review by Carly Rosalie Vandergriendt The Orange Grove Larry Tremblay Sheila Fischman, translation Biblioasis, 2015 Brothers David Clerson Katia Grubisic, translation QC Fiction, 2016 Currently long-listed for the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award, Larry Tremblay’s The Orange Grove opens...
Interview by Matthew Walsh Robyn Sarah’s most recent collection of poetry, My Shoes Are Killing Me, won the Governor General’s award for poetry in 2015. The poems touch on themes of nature, motherhood, and time, and allude to poets...
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...