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A Dream of a Woman by Casey Plett
Nov 26, 2021
Casey Plett is the author of the novel Little Fish, and the short story collection, A Safe Girl to Love. Her second collection of short fiction, A Dream of a Woman, is a powerful blend of stories and perspectives. Plett’s voice is strong and fully realized in this collection. The language is tight and matter-of-fact, […]
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What Is Written on The Tongue by Anne Lazurko
Nov 15, 2021
The compelling story of a young man’s odyssey through two wars and two occupations. As I read Anne Lazurko’s powerful, new historical novel, What Is Written on the Tongue, I found myself repeatedly asking, “what would I do?” What would I do to save myself and my family if my country was suddenly occupied by […]
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Biblioasis’s 2021 A Ghost Story for Christmas Collection
Nov 1, 2021
Just as reading aloud spooky ghost stories was a fun Christmas tradition in the Victorian era, Biblioasis and famous Canadian cartoonist Seth now have a firmly established tradition of re-publishing some of these stories, illustrating them and serving them up to today’s readers. These stories, like a creeping fog, surround the reader in an eerie […]
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OO: Typewriter Poems by Dani Spinosa
Oct 19, 2021
It sometimes feels like the expressiveness of the typewriter as a tool for composition is one of the best kept secrets in poetry and poetics. The ability to mark the page or to type over the marks already there, to feed the page through at different angles in order to mark outside of the expected […]
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Best Canadian Poetry 2020 Ed. by Marilyn Dumont
Sep 21, 2021
Best Canadian Poetry 2020 is a radical and wholly revelatory re-imagining of the country’s poetry canon. As Amanda Jernigan, advisory editor of the well-regarded series states in her preface, guest editor Marilyn Dumont’s carefully curated collection “is not English, exactly; certainly not ‘the King’s English.’ It is, rather, ‘something else’—something emphatically not less, not half, […]
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Walking Leonard and Other Stories by Sophie Stocking
Sep 8, 2021
We take many journeys when we read; the most interesting ones are those that writers lead us to by creating worlds that bring us to destinations which can be illuminating and sometimes surprising. Sophie Stocking, a writer from Alberta and the author of the novel, Corridor Nine, does just that with her collection of short […]
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