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Hold Me Now

By Stephen Gauer

Paul Brenner is an unremarkable middle-aged man, leading an unremarkable life. The Vancouver contract lawyer has a job at which he is proficient; a religious ex-wife; a mother in an assisted-living facility; a woman he ... Read More »

January 4, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Carapace

By Laura Lush

Laura Lush’s third collection is awash in dualities: it is as much a celebration of life and new beginnings as a metaphysical journey into the notion of endings. The poems constantly switch from ironic to ... Read More »

January 4, 2012 | Filed under: Poetry

Groundwork

By Amanda Jernigan

Amanda Jernigan’s debut poetry collection forwards a critique of contemporary aesthetics and knowledge production. From archaeological excavations in modern-day Tunisia to a stop in the Garden of Eden (en route to the islands of Homer’s ... Read More »

January 4, 2012 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Eye Lake

By Tristan Hughes

“Everyone has always met everyone else in Crooked River. I forget that sometimes.” When Eli O’Callaghan speaks these words in Tristan Hughes’s fourth novel, we understand them to be both a typical sentiment about small ... Read More »

January 4, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Yesterday’s Dead

By Pat Bourke

At the tail end of the First World War, Canadian soldiers began returning home from overseas. Along with joy over the war’s end, they brought with them a virus that would turn out to be ... Read More »

December 21, 2011