by prfire | Jul 24, 2017 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
The cover says Brockwell’s All of Us Reticent, Here, Together will turn around family, detritus, and the everyday of modern technology. What we aren’t told of is the detritus of family, the quotidian life of mourning, and truth’s turning through technology. Brockwell...
by prfire | Jul 11, 2017 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
Rocco de Giacomo is the author of several books of poetry. Over the years his works have appeared in literary journals such as Vallum, The Antigonish Review and Tower Poetry. With his new book Every Night of Our Lives the poet explores the themes of fatherhood...
by prfire | Jun 27, 2017 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
In Search of New Babylon marks Dominique Scali’s first novel, and one of W. Donald Wilson’s several translations. Like Guy Vanderhaeghe’s The Englishman’s Boy, Patrick DeWitt’s The Sisters Brothers, or Sean Johnston’s Listen All You Bullets, Scali continues the...
by prfire | Jun 13, 2017 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
The Vagaries of Love, its Loss and Renewals, Replenishment of the Self In Little Wildheart, Micheline Maylor writes poems that chart the vagaries of love, its cycles of loss and renewal, followed by a realization about the joy and freedom in reinhabiting the self...
by prfire | Jun 1, 2017 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
Christopher Gudgeon’s Assdeep in Wonder weds a raw, intense emotionalism to a wry, detached cynicism. Gudgeon effects a lot through his overarching tone, and it is easy to see some of his tactics at work in “The Causes of Heterosexuality”: Scientists have...
by prfire | May 2, 2017 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
The cover of Jamali Rad’s book depicts a building and an outdoor courtyard with slab benches. The structures, composed of concrete, appear stark and cold; the building is windowless and the only opening shown resembles a black, cave-like entrance. What is beyond this...
