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 | Dec 10, 2018 | Book Reviews, Poetry
I am not Mennonite. Nor is Clarise Foster, the editor who curated 29 Mennonite Poets, the first comprehensive collection of Mennonite poetry since the publication of Half in the Sun: An Anthology of Mennonite Writing (Ronsdale Press, 2006) and A Capella: Mennonite...
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 19, 2018 | Book Reviews, Poetry
Susan Ioannou’s Looking for Light charms and delights. It also feels like a final statement, as if it’s a summing up and a glancing back across the creative process. Chris Faiers’s Foreword suggests one pathway into the three sections of Looking for Light. He...
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...
