Like a Duck

Waterfowl, day-camp antics, and family secrets collide during a summer of self-discovery in Like a Duck from prolific Ontario-based children’s author Deborah Kerbel. Sarah lives in a little seaside town with her mom and best ... Read More »

April 12, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Foregone

By Russell Banks

Midway through Foregone, the latest novel from Russell Banks, the main character recalls a woman who published a memoir titled My Autobiography as I Remember It. Banks’s protagonist, a Canadian-American documentary filmmaker named Leonard Fife, ... Read More »

April 12, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Exhibitionist

By Molly Cross-Blanchard

In their debut collections, Tara Borin and Molly Cross-Blanchard both profess the longing and desire of relationships. While Borin connects their poems’ characters – whether dead or alive, human or animal – with location and ... Read More »

April 8, 2021 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ The Pit

By Tara Borin

April 8, 2021 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

It Doesn’t Matter What We Meant

By Rob Winger

Rob Winger’s It Doesn’t Matter What We Meant and Evie Christie’s Mere Extinction are the latest contributions to a genre I’m calling GTA pastoral. Each offers lyric meditations on a gritty urban present populated by, ... Read More »

April 5, 2021 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

Mere Extinction

By Evie Christie

April 5, 2021 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ Selected Poems, 1983–2020

By Steven Heighton

To say that Steven Heighton has done well for himself over his nearly 40-year career is a bit of an understatement. In both poetry and fiction, Heighton’s rise to royalty in the CanLit world has ... Read More »

April 1, 2021 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

Iron Goddess of Mercy

By Larissa Lai

Larissa Lai’s latest book is a masterful long poem that spins in and out of chaos and order, charting the movement of the Furies, the three Greco-Roman goddesses of vengeance and retribution. Joy is enjambed ... Read More »

March 29, 2021 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ We Dream Medicine Dreams

By Lisa Boivin

We Dream Medicine Dreams, by author, artist, and bioethicist Lisa Boivin, a member of the Deninu K’ue First Nation in the Northwest Territories, is a moving and insightful picture book honouring the enduring relationship between ... Read More »

March 29, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books