Burmese Lessons: A Love Story

Karen Connelly was deemed something of a prodigy in 1993, when, at age 24, she won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Touch the Dragon: A Thai Journal. Connelly has continued to astound, most notably ... Read More »

October 19, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Hymn

By John Barton

To borrow from Robert Frost, something there is in Hymn that doesn’t love a full stop. The majority of the poems in this book are written in a headlong, breathless manner, with nary a period ... Read More »

October 16, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry

Track & Trace

By Zachariah Wells

Born on Prince Edward Island, currently based in Halifax, frequent Q&Q contributor Zachariah Wells is a Maritime poet of direct speech and muscular lexicon, both of which can be counted among the legacies of fellow ... Read More »

October 16, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry

The Only Thing I Have

By Rhonda Waterfall

In The Only Thing I Have, Rhonda Waterfall’s first collection of short stories, we’re presented with characters incapable of self-scrutiny. But not knowing what they want doesn’t stop them from acting. On the contrary, there’s ... Read More »

October 16, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

8 x 10

By Michael Turner

Michael Turner’s previous novel, The Pornographer’s Poem, employed a variety of narrative forms, including letters, film scripts, diary entries, and monologues. His latest work, 8×10, is similarly unconventional: a collection of fragments intricately assembled to ... Read More »

October 16, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Can’tLit: Fearless Fiction from Broken Pencil Magazine

By Richard Rosenbaum, ed.

Though its precise origins are unclear, the term CanLit is now culturally enshrined as shorthand for all that is established and orthodox (or boring and stuffy) in Canadian fiction. The anthology Can’tLit sets itself in ... Read More »

October 16, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Suddenly

By Bonnie Burnard

A character in Bonnie Burnard’s Suddenly smacks her husband, not entirely playfully, with a copy of Lives of Girls and Women. The allusion is appropriate, though Suddenly is not so much an homage to Alice ... Read More »

October 16, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Holding Still for as Long as Possible

By Zoe Whittall

In her second novel, Zoe Whittall follows a group of twentysomethings struggling to cope with their complicated lives. Trapped somewhere between growing up and being grown-ups, these would-be adults hide behind excessive drinking and partying, ... Read More »

October 16, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Last Shot

By Leon Rooke

As his total number of published short stories exceeds 300, it seems unnecessary to dwell upon Leon Rooke’s much-celebrated productivity. What demands consideration, however, is whether such torrential output can exist without a corresponding dilution ... Read More »

October 16, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Hit & Mrs.

By Lesley Crewe

Lesley Crewe’s latest novel is about the bonds of friends and family – and the butt-kicking potential of a little pepper spray and a lot of frothing maternal instinct. Best friends Bette, Gemma, Augusta, and ... Read More »

October 16, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

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