Book Reviews

Twisting Mean (p. 125-127)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Best Canadian Stories 2019 by Caroline Adderson
  • This Wicked Tongue by Elise Levine

Mimetic Histories (p. 127-128)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dear Evelyn by Kathy Page
  • The Boat People by Sharon Bala

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The National Gallery by Jonathan Ball
  • This Is the Emergency Present by Vincent Pagé
  • Vulgar Mechanics by K.B. Thors

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Renaissance Normcore by Adèle Barclay
  • The Truth about Facts by Bart Vautour

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Under the Gamma Camera by Madeline Bassnett
  • The Grand River Watershed: A Folk Ecology by Karen Houle
  • Odysseus Asleep by Peter Sanger

Traumatized Teens (p. 132-133)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Last Words by Leanne Baugh
  • Larkin on the Shore by Jean Mills

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Footprints of Dark Energy by Henry Beissel
  • The House the Spirit Builds by Lorna Crozier, Peter Coffman and Diane Laundy
  • Travelling the Lost Highway by James Deahl

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Avant Canada: Poets, Prophets, Revolutionaries by Gregory Betts and Christian Bök

These Words Singing (p. 136-137)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Response of Weeds: A Misplacement of Black Poetry on the Prairies by Bertrand Bickersteth
  • Lullabies in the Real World by Meredith Quartermain

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Pivot Point by Bren Simmers
  • Chance Encounters with Wild Animals by Monica Kidd
  • Boom Time by Lindsay Bird

Goodbye to Language (p. 139-141)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Handsome Man by Brad Casey
  • In Veritas by C. J. Lavigne
  • Goth Girls of Banff by John O'Neill

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Collapsible by Tim Conley
  • Echolocation by Karen Hofmann

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Resisting Canada: An Anthology of Poetry by Nyla Matuk
  • Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers’ Poetry by Amber Dawn and Justin Ducharme

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Far Himalaya by Phillip Ernest
  • The Lost Sister by Andrea Gunraj

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Cosmic Bowling by Cornelia Hoogland and Ted Goodden
  • Swoon by Elana Wolff

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Where Things Touch: A Meditation on Beauty by Bahar Orang
  • Take Her, She’s Yours by Eva-Lynn Jagoe

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Half-Sisters and Other Stories by Ryan Turner
  • The Towers of Babylon by Michelle Kaesar

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Re-Origin of Species by Alessandra Naccarato
  • Odes & Laments by Fiona Tinwei Lam

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Unbecoming Nationalism: From Commemoration to Redress in Canada by Helene Vosters
  • Honouring the Strength of Indian Women: Plays, Stories, Poetry by Vera Manuel, Michelle Coupal, Deanna Reder, Joanne Arnott and Emalene A. Manuel

Poem Emporium (p. 154-155)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A halt, which is empty by rob mclennan
  • The Inflatable Life by Mark Laba

Book(s) Reviewed

  • let us not think of them as barbarians by Peter Midgley
  • The Dark Set: New Tenderman Poems by Tim Bowling
  • Devil in the Woods by D. A. Lockhart

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Anne of Green Gables: The Original Manuscript by L. M. Montgomery and Carolyn Strom Collins

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Name for Herself: Selected Writings, 1891-1917 by L. M. Montgomery and Benjamin Lefebvre
  • A World of Songs: Selected Poems, 1894-1921 by L. M. Montgomery and Benjamin Lefebvre

Sinews and Sheaves (p. 159-161)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Bones by Tyler Pennock
  • Fields of Light and Stone by Angeline Schellenberg

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Moving Images of Eternity: George Grant’s Critique of Time, Teaching, and Technology by William F. Pinar
  • Vergessene Stimmen, nationale Mythen: Literarische Beziehungen zwischen Österreich und Kanada/Forgotten Voices, National Myths: Literary Relations between Austria and Canada by Nicole Perry and Marc-Oliver Schuster

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Next Instalment: Serials, Sequels, and Adaptations of Nellie L. McClung, L. M. Montgomery, and Mazo de la Roche. by Wendy Roy

Precarious Places (p. 165-166)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Rising Tides: Reflections for Climate Changing Times by Catriona Sandilands
  • What You Take with You: Wildfire, Family and the Road Home by Therese Greenwood
  • Love of the Salish Sea Islands: New Essays, Memoirs and Poems by 40 Island Writers by 40 Island Writers, Gail Sjuberg and Nicola Wheston

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Robert Kroetsch: Essayist, Novelist, Poet by David Staines

Knowing Ourselves (p. 169-170)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Fiddlehead Moment: Pioneering an Alternative Canadian Modernism in New Brunswick by Tony Tremblay

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sotto Voce by Maureen Hynes
  • Crow Gulch by Douglas Walbourne-Gough

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sharing the Past: The Reinvention of History in Canadian Poetry since 1960 by J. A. Weingarten

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Reproduction by Ian Williams

History Lessons (p. 174-175)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • City on Strike: A Novel by Harriet Zaidman
  • A Boy from Acadie: Roméo LeBlanc’s Journey to Rideau Hall by Beryl Young