I Can’t Get You Out of My Mind

In the pantheon of human interactions, there are few questions as fraught with peril and treachery as “Do you love me?” Not simply because of the emotional weight this question – and the various possible ... Read More »

March 26, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Accretion

By Irfan Ali

Irfan Ali Brick Books A lot of 21st-century English-language poetry has been marked by an irreverent and implicitly self-absolving stance toward truth and meaning. What stands out about the poems in Irfan Ali’s debut collection ... Read More »

March 26, 2020 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

My Art Is Killing Me and Other Poems

By Amber Dawn

In her sophomore poetry collection, Vancouver’s Amber Dawn explores various dissonances in her personal life and career: her poems address Hollywood, academia, the internet, and the poet’s experiences as a queer femme, former sex worker, ... Read More »

March 26, 2020 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

Washes, Prays

By Noor Naga

Noor Naga’s debut book of poetry is an intimately written interrogation of female desire and spiritual belief played out in the context of an extramarital affair. Naga dwells in the alternating solace and crisis presented by ... Read More »

March 16, 2020 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

The Gospel of Breaking

By Jillian Christmas

In The Gospel of Breaking, poet and spoken-word artist Jillian Christmas invites readers into a world of sacred identities. Combining delicate imagery and rhythmic verse, these poems blend the personal with the political to yield truth. ... Read More »

March 16, 2020 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

Ridgerunner

By Gil Adamson

Perhaps more than any other genre, the western seems a relic of the past, to the point where a new literary example – say, Patrick deWitt’s The Sisters Brothers – is almost automatically viewed as ... Read More »

March 12, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Like Rum-Drunk Angels

By Tyler Enfield

March 12, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Out of My Mind: A Psychologist’s Descent into Madness and Back

By Shalom Camenietzki

“Insight” is a word that gets thrown around a lot in psychiatric circles: a patient who has it is someone who understands that they are ill, whereas lack of insight is considered to be a ... Read More »

March 9, 2020 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ The Dyzgraphxst

By Canisia Lubrin

Canisia Lubrin’s second full-length collection is an ambitious project, combining a lyric attention to the representation of the self with an epic scope and focus on the fate of a community, in this case on ... Read More »

March 9, 2020 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

The Subtweet

By Vivek Shraya

Vivek Shraya has become one of Canada’s most well-known chameleons of the arts and culture. Shraya has received praise in different artistic realms, including five separate nominations for Lambda Literary Awards and a nomination for ... Read More »

March 5, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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