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SHORT STORY
The Time Has Come
by MICHAEL MCGUIRE
BOOK REVIEW
POETRY: ONTARIO REVIEWS CALIFORNIA
A Brief History of Infidels:
Ayaz Pirani’s How Beautiful People Are
by LINZEY CORRIDON
CREATIVE NON-FICTION
Twenty Migrations
by RENESSA VISSER
POETRY
My bookshelf
by NEVENA KOVACEVIC
BOOK REVIEW
POETRY: NEWMARKET REVIEWS WINNIPEG
Tamar Rubin’s Tablet Fragments
by ROBERT COLMAN
MEMOIR
Having A Child Raised The Ghost Of My Mother
a short story
by VANESSA GREEN
BOOK REVIEWS
PORTRAITS: VEGETABLE, ANIMAL AND MUSICAL
WINNIPEG REVIEWS FREDERICTON, CALGARY, AND HALIFAX
Matthew Walsh’s These are not the potatoes of my youth
Jim Nason’s Rooster, Dog, Crow
George Elliott Clarke’s Portia White: A Portrait in Words
by TAMAR RUBIN
EXHIBITION REVIEW
EARLY SNOW
Michael Snow 1947-1962 at the Art Gallery of Hamilton
by BART GAZZOLA
BOOK REVIEW
CHTHONIC TRANSCENDENCE
NEW BRUNSWICK REVIEWS ONTARIO
Richard Gavin’s Grotesquerie
by DANNY JACOBS
POETRY
Bow and arrow
by JENN CARSON
BOOK REVIEW
ANCASTER, ONTARIO REVIEWS TRURO, NOVA SCOTIA
Chad Norman’s Squall: Poems in the Voice of Mary Shelley
by RICHARD VAN HOLST
BOOK REVIEW
POEMS WITHOUT ORGANS
WUHAN REVIEWS TORONTO
A.F. Moritz’s As Far as You Know
by CARL WATTS
POETRY
[the future will be luminous & reckless]
by STAN ROGAL
BOOK REVIEW
BURNABY REVIEWS NEWMARKET
Robert Colman’s Democratically Applied Machine
by AIDAN CHAFE
BOOK REVIEWS
ACROSS TIME, STYLE, AND GENRE, VIA VANCOUVER
Alex Leslie’s Vancouver for Beginners
Matthew Walsh’s These are not the potatoes of my youth
bill bissett’s breth / th treez uv lunaria:
selektid rare n nu pomes n drawings, 1957-2019
by JOHN NYMAN
BOOK REVIEW
TORONTO REVIEWS VICTORIA
QUEER POSITIONS, NAKED PROSE: THE VULNERABLE WE
John Barton’s We Are Not Avatars: Essays, Memoirs, Manifestos
by JIM NASON
BOOK REVIEW
A DISCERNIBLE TRAIL:
ON RE-READING “IN BED WITH THE WORD”
SAN FRANCISCO REVIEWS HAMILTON
Daniel Coleman’s In bed with the Word
by GEOFF MARTIN
BOOK REVIEW
GENIUS! A TORTUOUS ROUTE
HAMILTON REVIEWS HAMILTON
Marilyn Gear Pilling’s On Huron’s Shore
by ROBERT NIELSEN
HAMILTON ARTS WEEK
MESH AND MYTH: POEMS ON RELATIONSHIP
A SUITE OF TEN POEMS
Keepsake Sonnet and Endings
Cascades and I’m In
The Jewelry Box and Henhouse
Meeting and Fall
Losing Face and The Lung Transplant
by ELIZABETH TESSIER
BOOK REVIEWS
FOLKTALES, TREES AND EMPTY BOWLS:
HAMILTON REVIEWS NEW BRUNSWICK
Matthew Gwathmey’s Our Latest in Folktales
Sandra Bunting’s Identified in Trees
M. Travis Lane’s A Tent, A Lantern, An Empty Bowl
by GARY BARWIN
HAMILTON ARTS WEEK
POETRY / VIDEO
Everybody In
(*a sonnet to Isolation* courtesy of covid-19)
by LEO DRAGTOE
HAMILTON ARTS WEEK
TWO POEMS
Don’t Go Out and Lucid
by LEO DRAGTOE
BOOK REVIEWS
WHERE WE ARE COMING FROM AND WHERE WE ARE HEADED:
CALGARY REVIEWS LONDON
Kevin Heslop’s
there is no minor violence just as there is no negligible cough during an aria
David Barrick’s Incubation Chamber
Madeline Bassnett’s Under the Gamma Camera
by AMY LeBLANC
BOOK REVIEW
INEVITABILITY AND EXILE AS ARCHIVE:
MIRAMICHI REVIEWS HAMILTON
Paul Lisson’s The Perfect Archive
by JAMES M. FISHER
BOOK REVIEWS
LAYERED TRANSFORMATIONS:
LONDON REVIEWS OTTAWA
Michael Dennis’ Bad Engine: New + Selected Poems
Jenny Haysom’s Dividing the Wayside
Dominik Parisien’s We, Old Young Ones
by MADELINE BASSNETT
BOOK REVIEW
FINDING THE LYRIC IN THE CRUCIALLY:
FREDERICTON REVIEWS HAMILTON
Gary Barwin’s
For It Is a PLEASURE and a SURPRISE to Breathe: new & selected POEMS
by MATTHEW GWATHMEY
BOOK REVIEWS
ORGANIC INGREDIENTS:
BOWEN ISLAND REVIEWS CALGARY
Monica Kidd’s Chance Encounters with Wild Animals
Amy Leblanc’s I Know Something You Don’t Know
Stuart Ian Mckay’s even the idea of maya is maya
by DANIEL COWPER
Cross-Canada Book Review Project:
Self-Reflection by Quixote
AKA Shane Neilson
Book Reviews:
Daniel Cowper’s Grotesque Tenderness
AND Aidan Chafe’s Short Histories of Light
by Brian Palmu
Book Review:
Kelly S. Thompson’s Girls Need Not Apply: Field Notes from the Forces
by Danny Jacobs
Poetry:
Supernova
by Megan Mueller
Exhibition Review:
Lise Beaudry:
Lignes d’horizon, lignes de repère / Horizontal Lines, Reference Lines
by Shannon Anderson
Book Review:
Margaret Lindsay Holton’s Trillium
by Rachel More
Commentary:
Declining Hope
by Lorraine York
Short Story:
A LITTLE TRUTH
by Darrell Doxtdator
Poetry Book Review:
EMMA MCKENNA’S CHENILLE OR SILK
by Jaclyn Desforges
Book Review:
From Global Village To Global Membrane:
A Review of B.W. Powe’s The Charge In The Global Membrane, with Street Art Photos by Marshall Soules
by J.S. Porter
Memoir:
Burning Questions for My Grandma
by Miriam Clavir
Poetry:
Deep vein mnemonic, and Art & armor
by Jenn Carson
Poetry:
ORANGE
by Anne Bokma
Book Review:
Superabundantly Alive. Thomas Merton’s Dance with the Feminine
by Susan McCaslin and J.S. Porter
Reviewed by Paul R. Dekar
Book Review:
I’M GOING TO TELL YOU A STORY ABOUT A BOOK
Daniel Coleman and In Bed with the Word
by Jeremy Luke Hill
Poetry:
DAVID
By Anne Savage
Poetry Book Review:
“Two Kinds of Light”
Bernadette Rule’s Earth Day in Leith Churchyard:
Poems in Search of Tom Thomson
by Jeffery Donaldson
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