Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and PoetryEdited by David Ly and Daniel ZomparelliArsenal Pulp Press, 2022 Review by Sierra Riley Monsters and ghosts are inseparable from their queer contexts. Werewolves, Medusa, Mr. Hyde and Mothman—these creatures...
Interview by David Ly Tolu Oloruntoba’s debut poetry collection, The Junta of Happenstance, is a journey through syncopated language to peel back his own interpretation of the (im)migrant experience, struggles against social injustices, and his time as a physician....
Interview by David Ly 2021 Dayne Oglivie finalist jaye simpson’s debut it was never going to be okay explores intergenerational trauma, queerness, and Indigeneity through intimate and raw poetry and prose. What follows is a conversation between jaye and...
Interview by David Ly In the two years since Lily Wang debuted with her chapbook Everyone in Your Dream is You (Anstruther Press, 2018), she has honed her voice as a poet who poignantly speaks to contemporary culture in...
Mythical ManDavid LyPalimpsest Press, 2020 Review by Hasan Namir There, viper scalesframea smoky-eyed stare––you never know where the gazewill strike David Ly’s debut poetry collection, Mythical Man, opens with the title poem, “Mythical Man I.” The poem, shaped like...
Photo by Gordon HillInterview by David Ly Amy LeBlanc’s debut poetry collection, I know something you don’t, is a magical journey. LeBlanc has a natural eye for beauty, and even the darkest moments of the collection’s poems entice the...
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...
Interview by David Ly Alex Leslie’s latest poetry collection Vancouver for Beginners (Book*hug Press, 2019) is a ghost story, an elegy, and a love song for a city that is both indecipherable and a microcosm of a world on...
Interview by David Ly Tess Liem’s debut full-length collection Obits. (Coach House Books) seeks to find a place where those who are othered can mourn and find themselves. It’s a vulnerable collection, one with layers so intimate to the...