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Pitouie

By Derek Winkler

“Adventure” and “intrigue” are two of the last words you would expect to ­associate with a novel in which the main character works a dead-end job as the associate editor of a waste management trade ... Read More »

January 24, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Here Is Where We Disembark

By Clea Roberts

There is something about the bleakness and epic geographical scale of the Canadian North that arrests the collective imagination – something to do with our romanticized notions of survival in inhospitable climes, our respect (though ... Read More »

November 16, 2010 | Filed under: Poetry

Indexical Elegies

By Jon Paul Fiorentino

In a book of short stories, a novel, and a handful of poetry collections over the past decade or so, Montreal writer, editor, and publisher Jon Paul Fiorentino has embraced and celebrated his anxieties, nervous ... Read More »

November 16, 2010 | Filed under: Poetry

That Other Beauty

By Karen Enns

The rural life of a Mennonite community in Southern Ontario forms the backdrop to Karen Enns’ debut collection. At once lush and spare – evidence of mentor Patrick Lane’s influence is very much apparent – ... Read More »

November 16, 2010 | Filed under: Poetry