News & Extras
Boy
Oct 21, 2013
In Victor Enns’s Boy, family and locale figure prominently, as well they might when the topic is adolescence. Enns feels dearly about his sister, not as strongly about his brother, he desperately needs his mother, and Dad keeps a leather belt in his roll-top desk.
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Firewalk
Jul 15, 2013
In Firewalk, Katherine Bitney writes poems against a spectacular northern backdrop of aurora borealis conceived of as a “forest of green girls” (13), with the stag at the winter solstice standing with the sun “mov[ing] lower, into his antlers” (37), and the ever-hungry wolf watching over the animal and human kingdoms.
Read MoreBirk Sproxton: Life, Writing and Remembrance
Jul 4, 2013
by Christian Riegel In mid March, 2007, I answered the phone and mistook Denis Sproxton’s voice for that of his father, Birk.
Read MoreRead Sue Goyette’s winning suite of poems
Jun 24, 2013
On June 7, Sue’s suite of poems “fashion” won silver at the National Magazine Awards gala in Toronto.
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The Age of Hope
May 2, 2013
Hope Plett, the protagonist of David Bergen’s seventh novel, The Age of Hope, makes her first appearance at the tail end of a misguided attempt at aerial daredevilry.
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North End Love Songs
Jan 24, 2013
Katherena Vermette’s North End Love Songs is a debut collection from an emerging Winnipeg poet, a book that combines elegiac and fiercely ecstatic melodies to sing of a complicated love for a city, a river, and a neighbourhood.
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