by prfire | Dec 15, 2017 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
#IndianLovePoems, a poetry collection by Tenille K. Campbell, provides evocative, truthful words about love without silencing her Indigenous perspective. The honesty throughout #IndianLovePoems is fresh and without hesitation. Her words flow like spoken word poetry,...
by prfire | Dec 7, 2017 | Book Reviews, Poetry
Canada is so haunted by the spectres of dead white men that they almost seem inescapable, a presence so persistent as to be definitive.This is, of course, the point. The fact that there seem to be innumerable buildings bearing the names of Sir John A. MacDonald...
by prfire | Nov 17, 2017 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
Common Place, Sarah Pinder’s second book of poetry, is a challenging read. This is partially due to the subject matter at hand—Common Place is concerned with structures and discourses of power at a human level, and necessarily presents the violence inherent in these...
by prfire | Sep 21, 2017 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
How Festive the Ambulance, Kim Fu’s debut book of poetry, is a startling exploration of the banality of modern life. With dark and exacting language, Fu dissects life’s excess of moments and uncovers a consistency of destruction and disappointment. Throughout How...
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...
