Issue 41-2
On Fiction
Sarah Schulman — The Mere Future, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2011
Sue Sorensen — A Large Harmonium, Coteau Books, 2011
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Reviewed by DAVID INGHAM
On Non-Fiction
Steven Heighton — Workbook: Memos and Dispatches on Writing, ECW Press, 2011
Allison Crawford et al. — Body & Soul: Narratives of Healing from Ars Medica, University of Toronto Press, 2011
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Reviewed by ANDREW MACDONALD
On Non-Fiction/Fiction
Gary Geddes — Drink the Bitter Root: A Writer’s Search for Justice and Redemption in Africa, Douglas & McIntyre, 2011
Stephen Gauer — Hold Me Now, Freehand Books, 2011
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Reviewed by LIZA POTVIN
On Poetry
Stephanie Bolster — A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth, Brick Books, 2011
Carmine Starnino, Ed. — John Glassco and the Other Montreal, Frog Hollow Press, 2011
Sachiko Murakami — Rebuild, Talonbooks, 2011
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Reviewed by MAURICE MIERAU
Issue 41-1
On Fiction
Nicole Lundrigan — Glass Boys, Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2011
Guy Vanderhaeghe — A Good Man, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2011
Reviewed by BRENNA CLARKE GRAY
Esme Claire Kieth — not being on a boat, Freehand Books, 2011
Emma Ruby-Sachs — The Water Man’s Daughter, Emblem Editions, 2011
Reviewed by CATHY STONEHOUSE
Sadru Jetha — Nuri Does Not Exist, Talonbooks, 2011
Stephen Kelman — Pigeon English, Anansi, 2011
Reviewed by SPENCER UNDERWOOD
Leslie Vryenhoek — Gulf, Oolichan Books, 2011
Glen Downie — Local News, Wolsak and Wynn, 2011
Carleton Wilson — The Material Sublime, Nightwood Editions, 2011
Reviewed by MIRANDA PEARSON
Issue 40-3
On Fiction/Non-Fiction
Richard Wagamese — One Story, One Song (Douglas & McIntyre, 2011)
Jane Rule — Taking My Life (Talonbooks, 2011)
Reviewed by MEG STAINSBY
On Fiction
Ian Williams — Not Anyone’s Anything (Freehand Books, 2011)
Michael Christie — The Beggar’s Garden (HarperCollins, 2011)
Reviewed by JUNE HUTTON
K.D. Miller — Brown Dwarf (Biblioasis, 2010)
Liz Bugg — Red Rover (Insomniac Press, 2010)
Reviewed by MICHAEL MIROLLA
On Poetry
Goran Simić — Sunrise in the Eyes of the Snowman (Biblioasis, 2010)
Keith Garebian — Children of Ararat (Frontenac House, 2010)
Reviewed by NICK THRAN
Issue 40-2
On Non-Fiction
Don Gayton — Man Facing West (Thistledown Press, 2010)
Anne Sorbie — Memoir of a Good Death: A Novel (Thistledown Press, 2010)
Reviewed by CYNTHIA FLOOD
On Fiction
Katrina Best — Bird Eat Bird (Insomniac Press, 2010)
Darcie Friesen Hossack — Mennonites Don’t Dance (Thistledown Press, 2010)
Reviewed by STEVEN GALLOWAY
Gabriella Goliger — Girl Unwrapped (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2010)
Yasmin Ladha — Blue Sunflower Startle (Freehand Books, 2010)
Genni Gunn — Solitaria (Signature Editions, 2010)
Reviewed by ELIZABETH MCCAUSLAND
On Poetry
Suzanne Buffam — The Irrationalist (Anansi, 2010)
Steven Heighton — Patient Frame (Anansi, 2010)
Tim Bowling — The Annotated Bee & Me (Gaspereau, 2010)
Reviewed by KEVIN MCNEILLY
Issue 40-1
On Poetry
David W. McFadden — Why Are You So Long and Sweet? (InsomniacPress, 2010)
Johanna Skibsrud — I Do Not Think I Could Love Another Human Being(Gaspereau Press, 2010)
Reviewed by DARREN BIFFORD
On Fiction
Harry Karlinsky — The Evolution of Inanimate Objects (Insomniac Press, 2010)
A.J. Somerset — Combat Camera (Biblioasis, 2010)
Reviewed by ANDREW MACDONALD
Alexander MacLeod — Light Lifting (Biblioasis, 2010)
Ann Perdue — I’m a Registered Nurse Not a Whore (Insomniac Press, 2010)
Rachel Wyatt — Letters to Omar (Coteau Books, 2010)
Reviewed by LIZA POTVIN
On Fiction/Non-Fiction
Douglas Coupland — Player One: What Is to Become of Us: A Novel in Five Hours (House of Anansi, 2010)
Sarah Leavitt — Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer’s, My Mother and Me (Freehand Books, 2010)
Reviewed by BRENNA CLARKE GRAY
Issue 39-3
On Non-Fiction
Naomi Beth Wakan — Book Ends: A Year Between the Covers (Poplar Press, 2010)
Betsy Warland — Breathing the Page: Reading the Act of Writing (Cormorant Books, 2010)
Clem Martini and Olivier Martini — Bitter Medicine: A Graphic Memoir of Mental Illness (Freehand Books, 2010)
Reviewed by HEATHER BIRRELL
Issue 39-2
On Poetry
Damien Rogers — Paper Radio(ECW Press, 2009)
Matthew Tierney — The Hayflick Limit (Coach House Books, 2009)
Billeh Nickerson — McPoems(Arsenal Pulp Press, 2009).
Reviewed by DARREN BIFFORD. Biffordcurrently lives in Toronto.
Erín Moure — O Resplandor (Anansi, 2010)
Chris Hutchinson — Other People’s Lives (Brick Books, 2009)
Reviewed by NICK THRAN. Thran is the author of one poetry collection, Every Inadequate Name (Insomniac, 2006). A second collection, Earworm, will appear in 2011 with Nightwood Editions. He currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.
On Fiction
David Derry — Sentimental Exorcisms (Coach House Books, 2009)
Anik See — postcard and other stories (Freehand Books, 2009)
Paul Headrick — The Doctrine of Affections (Freehand Books, 2010)
Reviewed by MICHAEL MIROLLA. Mirolla is the author of the novel Berlin and two short-story collections: The Formal Logic of Emotion and Hothouse Loves & Other Tales. Light and Time, a poetry collection, was released in 2009, and a novel, The Facility, is due out in Fall 2010. To keep busy, he and a partner have taken ownership of iconic Canadian publishing house, Guernica Editions.
Antonia Banyard — Never Going Back (Thistledown Press, 2010)
Lydia Kwa — Pulse (Key Porter Books, 2010)
Reviewed by HILARY TURNER. Turner teaches English at the University of the Fraser Valley.
Issue 39-1
On Poetry
Maleea Acker — The Reflecting Pool (Pedlar Press, 2009)
Heather Cadsby — Could be (Brick Books, 2009)
Carmine Starnino — This Way Out (Gaspereau Press, 2009)
Reviewed by NICK THRAN. Thran is the author of one poetry collection, Every Inadequate Name (Insomniac, 2006). A second collection, Earworm, will appear in 2011 with Nightwood Editions. He currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.
On Fiction
Stuart Ross — Buying Cigarettes for the Dog (Freehand Books, 2009)
Amy Jones — What Boys Like and Other Stories (Biblioasis, 2009)
Reviewed by CHRISTINE DEWAR. Dewar is the Fiction Editor for EVENT. She lives in New Westminster, BC, and teaches Theatre History and Arts & Culture courses in the Theatre and Stagecraft programs at Douglas College. She also has an ongoing gig as Diligence/Sloth in the performance artwork of Margaret Dragu.
Margaret Sweatman — The Players (Goose Lane Editions, 2009)
Rhea Tregebov — The Knife Sharpener’s Bell (Coteau Books, 2009)
Reviewed by LISA GREKUL. Grekul is an Assistant Professor in Critical Studies at UBC-Okanagan in Kelowna, BC. She is the author of Kalyna’s Song (Coteau, 2003) and Leaving Shadows: Literature in English by Canada’s Ukrainians (U of A Press, 2005). Her research and teaching focuses on Canadian literature, with emphasis on minoritized Canadian writers.
On Non-Fiction
Denise Roig — Butter Cream: A Year in a Montreal Pastry School (Signature Editions, 2008)
Aislinn Hunter — A Peepshow with Views of the Interior: Paratexts (Palimpsest Press, 2009)
Jim Oaten — Accelerated Paces: Travels Across Borders and Other Imaginary Boundaries (Anvil Press, 2008)
Reviewed by MICHAEL MIROLLA. Mirolla is the author of the novel Berlin and two short-story collections: The Formal Logic of Emotion and Hothouse Loves & Other Tales. Light and Time, a poetry collection, was released in 2009, and a novel, The Facility, is due out in Fall 2010. To keep busy, he and a partner have taken ownership of iconic Canadian publishing house, Guernica Editions.
