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Black Water: Family, Legacy, and Blood Memory by David A. Robertson
Aug 26, 2021
After several novels, adult and young adult, and a children’s book for which he won the Governor General’s Literary Award in 2017, David Robertson has written a memoir. This current work recently received accolades, the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award and the Alexander Kennedy Ibister Award for Nonfiction at the 2021 Manitoba Book Awards. The […]
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Iron Goddess of Mercy by Larissa Lai
Aug 11, 2021
A place is never simple, it is always shot through with the histories, symbols, and identities that collide and contest it, by the accrual of meanings over time and the conversations between those meanings. Given the role place often plays in how we understand and define ourselves, this messiness can seem infinitely complicating and disorienting. […]
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Yams do not Exist by Garry Thomas Morse
Jul 26, 2021
While Garry Thomas Morse is already an accomplished poet and fiction writer, he manages to deliver something completely new and fresh in his new novel, Yams do not Exist. From the first page, it’s clear that this book is something different. The very first sentence contains two footnotes, and one of them relates to the […]
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The Swan Suit by Katherine Fawcett
Jul 13, 2021
Every short story collection should have one perfect story that the reader returns to over and over. Even if some of the other stories are ho-hum, that one perfect story remains in the mind. Through sheer luck, the first story I read in Katherine Fawcett’s second collection of short stories, The Swan Suit, is […]
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The Lightning of Possible Storms by Jonathan Ball
Jun 22, 2021
Jonathan Ball has built an impressive writing career that includes both poetry and fiction. That wild electricity of poetry explodes in his first full-length fiction collection, The Lightning of Possible Storms. The Lightning of Possible Storms is categorized as a short story collection, and while it’s not quite a novel in stories, it’s something more […]
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The Perfect Archive by Paul Lisson
Jun 7, 2021
In The Perfect Archive, Hamilton poet, archivist and librarian Paul Lisson stretches the boundaries of poetry and prose to perform an exacting/extracting critique of the archive. Reminiscent of Kafka, radical and irreverent, the archive at the centre of this dark tale of illusion, deception, and the contingent nature of truth itself, is brimful of contested […]
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