by prfire | Jan 2, 2019 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
This Wound is a World, the first collection of poetry from Billy-Ray Belcourt, is an act of mourning. The text is pervaded by a sense of loss as the closing lines of the poem “Heartbreak is a White Kid” clearly show: “that our eyes stopped/ believing in what was in...
by prfire | Dec 20, 2018 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
Poetry, possibly more than any other form of literature, rewards the testing of its limits. The boundaries, the margins, the limits, as spaces where language is pushed into ever more heightened and excited states, open the reader and the poet to the possibilities of...
by prfire | Nov 30, 2018 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
Biblioasis and famous Canadian cartoonist Seth have once again released three Victorian ghost stories just in time for the holiday season. These stories are short enough to be read in one sitting, or read aloud. Seth’s illustrations throughout are in keeping with the...
by prfire | Nov 8, 2018 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
How a life is measured can take a lifetime of contemplation and along the way there are many questions, some that cannot be answered. What do we learn? What do we feel we have accomplished, if anything? And what is left afterwards for others to discover? Two...
by prfire | Oct 29, 2018 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Non-Fiction
Heather O’Neill’s Wisdom in Nonsense: Invaluable Lessons from My Father begins with a piece of fatherly advice that must have sounded, to the young budding writer, as a challenge: “Lesson One, Never Keep a Diary”(3). O’Neill tells us that while chronicling the daily...
by prfire | Oct 17, 2018 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
You find yourself in the forest. You know the one. It’s the forest where the stories you read as a child take place. A forest so green and thick, that it’s positively brimming with life, with magic. Up ahead, you see a grand building, majestic amongst the trees, yet...
