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The Essential D.G. Jones edited by Jim Johnstone
by Bruce Whiteman
by Bruce Whiteman
Doug Jones died in early March last year, just a few short months before this selection of his poems…
Browsing: Reviews
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Suzanne Buffam’s A Pillow Book
by Sarah Neville
by Sarah Neville
Somewhere in the gathering dawn beyond the blinds, the first car alarm in March hails the sun. A lone reader…
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Maxime Raymond Bock’s Baloney
by Bardia Sinaee
by Bardia Sinaee
Robert Lacerte (or “Baloney,” as he’s known in the Montreal literary scene) has been a marginal poet his entire life…
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Nathan Whitlock’s Congratulations on Everything
by Alison Gillmor
by Alison Gillmor
In Nathan Whitlock’s sharply funny second novel, Jeremy is the owner of The Ice Shack, an unassuming neighbourhood restaurant-bar in…
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Jeff Bursey’s Centring the Margins: Essays and Reviews
by Alex Good
by Alex Good
Many years ago, as a graduate student of English, I was told something about where the discipline was headed by…
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George Elliott Clarke’s Gold
by Jim Johnstone
by Jim Johnstone
If I had been asked to hand out medals to Canadian poets at the starting blocks of the new century, George Elliott Clarke would have been a contender for gold…
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Geneviève Pettersen’s The Goddess of Fireflies and Karoline Georges’ Under the Stone
by JC Sutcliffe
by JC Sutcliffe
The Goddess of Fireflies and Under the Stone, published by Esplanade Books and Anvil Press, respectively, are part of a wave of Quebec fiction being translated into English by small presses…
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Malcolm Sutton’s Job Shadowing and Jacob Wren’s Rich and Poor
by Alex Good
by Alex Good
Of course the spirit of the age has to be present in any work of art. No author writes in a vacuum. The most dramatic current events are absorbed into a state of mind and turned into stories that address how they affect us.
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Cordelia Strube’s On the Shores of Darkness, There is Light
by Kamal Al-Solaylee
by Kamal Al-Solaylee
From its title, borrowed off John Keats’ poem To Homer, to its young protagonist’s obsessive plans to follow in…
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Robert Lecker’s Anthologizing Canadian Literature: Theoretical and Cultural Perspectives
by Alex Good
by Alex Good
For several decades now, McGill professor Robert Lecker has been one of the best academic commentators on the CanLit profession. That…