by prfire | Jul 16, 2014 | Book Reviews, Poetry
What an odd title for a book of poems. I conjure up a beast, or a fantastic creature like the shadow in Robert Munsch’s children’s story The Dark. The title poem concerns a woman with an eating disorder that has afflicted her throughout her life. Young focuses on our...
by prfire | Jun 10, 2014 | Book Reviews, Drama
Reading plays in book form is always a different process from seeing them on stage. They become literature and need to engage without the visual and oral elements of a stage production. The book form should work well for this collection, since much of the material...
by prfire | Apr 22, 2014 | Book Reviews, Drama
Playwright Carolyn Gray’s North Main Gothic follows the story of Ian Trelkovsky, a Winnipeg bureaucrat and slum landlord, who takes a nightmarish journey into the underground life of his city. His journey begins one night with a car accident on Winnipeg’s Main Street...
by prfire | Mar 20, 2014 | Book Reviews, Drama
In his introduction to The Exile Book of Native Canadian Fiction and Drama, editor Daniel David Moses expresses the hope that the work of First Nations writers in Canada today has reached the point where it can be read on its own terms simply as literature, without...
by prfire | Feb 20, 2014 | Book Reviews, Poetry
Jason Heroux’s Memoirs of an Alias surprised me with its brilliance. His ability to create images seemed bold, rewarding and quite new. His Mansfield Press follow-up, Emergency Hallelujah, continued in the same direction: image vector attached to image vector like the...
by nicole | Jan 21, 2014 | Book Reviews, Poetry
Victor Coleman has been writing for a lifetime, working at the edges of poetry – never afraid to challenge any reader gutsy enough to pick up one of his books. This one comes with the head-scratching title ivH: An Alphamath Serial displayed in a pitch-black font...
