NUTGROVE (short story) By Luke Beirne [Originally published Dec. 24, 2018. Republished 24/12/21] Ivanna’s broom swept over the dark brown knots on the hardwood floor, leaving a perfectly squared trail through the pine needles scattered across it. The tree was standing in the corner beside the big window, looking out through sheer curtains to the … Continue reading Short Story • by Luke Beirne
BOOK REVIEW by RICHARD VAN HOLST SQUALL: POEMS IN THE VOICE OF MARY SHELLEY ANCASTER, ONTARIO REVIEWS TRURO, NOVA SCOTIA Squall: Poems in the Voice of Mary Shelley by CHAD NORMAN [Hamilton: Guernica Editions, 2020, $20.00. Illustrations by judith S bauer.] Chad Norman, a Canadian poet from Truro, Nova Scotia, has been publishing poetry since … Continue reading Book Review: Richard Van Holst / Chad Norman
[the future will be luminous & reckless] by STAN ROGAL [the future will be luminous & reckless] — Paul Lisson a pop-up graphic performance white cubes versus dark streets so we must enumerate, he sd, then, let a leaf’s waxy index of antihistamine by-&-by become an event causality is dimmed there is no perfect archive … Continue reading Poetry • by Stan Rogal
BOOK REVIEW by CARL WATTS POEMS WITHOUT ORGANS WUHAN REVIEWS TORONTO As Far as You Know by A.F. MORITZ [Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 2020, $19.95] In his afterword to Editing Moritz: Correspondence between Shane Neilson and A.F. Moritz during the Editing of Now That You Revive (2007), Moritz compares his writing process with that … Continue reading Book Review: Carl Watts / A.F. Moritz
BOOK REVIEW by AIDAN CHAFE ROBERT COLMAN’S DEMOCRATICALLY APPLIED MACHINE BURNABY REVIEWS NEWMARKET Democratically Applied Machine by ROBERT COLMAN [Windsor: Palimpsest Press, 2020, SALE: $15.16] In his third collection of poems, Democratically Applied Machine, Robert Colman explores industrial and domestic landscapes, as well as his personal identity, amid his father’s onset of Alzheimer’s dementia. … Continue reading Book Review: Aidan Chafe / Robert Colman
BOOK REVIEWS by JOHN NYMAN ACROSS TIME, STYLE, AND GENRE, VIA VANCOUVER ALEX LESLIE’S Vancouver for Beginners [Toronto: Book*hug Press, 2019, $12.99 – $21.00] MATTHEW WALSH’S These are not the potatoes of my youth [Fredericton: Goose Lane Editions • icehouse poetry, 2019, $19.95] bill bissett’s breth / th treez uv lunaria: selektid rare n nu … Continue reading Book Reviews: Nyman / Leslie / Walsh / bissett
BOOK REVIEW by JIM NASON TORONTO REVIEWS VICTORIA QUEER POSITIONS, NAKED PROSE: THE VULNERABLE WE JOHN BARTON’S We Are Not Avatars: Essays, Memoirs, Manifestos [Windsor: Palimpsest Press, 2019, SALE: $15.96] In 2007, along with Billeh Nickerson, John Barton edited Seminal: The Anthology of Canada’s Gay Male Poets. At the time, standing with my … Continue reading Book Review: Jim Nason / John Barton
BOOK REVIEW by ROBERT NIELSEN GENIUS! A TORTUOUS ROUTE HAMILTON REVIEWS HAMILTON MARILYN GEAR PILLING’S On Huron’s Shore [Bradford, Ontario: Demeter Press, 2005, $32.24] I always wonder how book reviews came to be written. In most cases, they were probably assigned by some editor, and the reviewers may have been paid for their efforts. In … Continue reading Book Review: Robert Nielsen / Marilyn Gear Pilling
BOOK REVIEW by GEOFF MARTIN A DISCERNIBLE TRAIL: ON RE-READING “IN BED WITH THE WORD” SAN FRANCISCO REVIEWS HAMILTON DANIEL COLEMAN’S In bed with the Word [Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2009, $19.95] I first read Daniel Coleman’s In Bed with the Word: Reading, Spirituality, and Cultural Politics aloud in bed, ten years ago this … Continue reading Book Review: Geoff Martin / Daniel Coleman
MESH AND MYTH Poems on Relationship: A suite of ten poems by ELIZABETH TESSIER Keepsakes Sonnet Here’s to the things we store yet in a chest once held dear by our beloved dead. What truths are folded with them in their rest? this ballast that we carry in our head. What once were anchor, … Continue reading Poetry Suite • 1 • by Elizabeth Tessier
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