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Current Issue
241 Reading, Writing, Listening
(2020)

Featured Poem

Middle April
By Naomi Rachel
The Chinese goose is talking in her sleep, walking the ducks. Herding them to and fro, their protests muffled by the shallow breath of fatigue.…

Featured Book Review

Rocky Seas, Safe Arbour
  • Paradoxides: Poems by Don McKay
  • Naked Trees by John Terpstra
Reviewed by Nicholas Bradley
Don McKay’s great poetic strength is often said to be his command of metaphor. His limitation, detractors have claimed, is a formal slackness. Is McKay a master of the outlandish comparison, the outré juxtaposition that reveals unsettling truths about the ecological nature of things? Or is he a yuckster whose…

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Reading, Writing, Listening: Author Spotlight – Helena van Praet
Helena Van Praet is a PhD candidate and assistant in Dutch Literature at Université Catholique de Louvain. She studied English ...

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December 24, 2020

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November 24, 2020

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October 23, 2020

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October 14, 2020

Call for Papers for a Special Issue on “The Vietnam War and its Afterlife in Canadian Literature”
October 9, 2020

New Issue: Reading, Writing, Listening #241
September 29, 2020

EXTENDED: Call for Papers for a Special Issue on “Pandemics”
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Dec2
The Prairie is Black by Alison Calder

  • The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology by Karina Vernon


Dec2
“Dragging Baggage” by Shoshannah Ganz

  • Polar Vortex by Shani Mootoo
  • Hunger Moon: Stories by Traci Skuce


Dec2
All What Jazz by Nicholas Bradley

  • Music at the Heart of Thinking by Fred Wah


Dec2
Tracking Pasts by Julie Cairnie

  • Cardinal Divide by Nina Newington
  • The Wild Heavens by Sarah Louise Butler


Dec2
Particulars Remembered by Lorraine York

  • Collected Poems of Bronwen Wallace by Bronwen Wallace and Carolyn Smart


Dec2
Limbs, Limits, Love by Neil Surkan

  • Nought by Julie Joosten
  • Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart by Beatriz Hausner


Dec2
A Very Timely Anthology by Suzanne James

  • Changing the Face of Canadian Literature by Dane Swan


Dec2
Drilling Down by Dorothy F. Lane

  • Unravelling by Josephine Boxwell
  • I Can't Get You Out of My Mind by Marianne Apostolides


Dec2
A Tribute to Munro by Christine Lorre-Johnston

  • Alice Munro Everlasting: Essays On Her Work II by J. R. (Tim) Struthers
  • Alice Munro Country: Essays On Her Work I by J. R. (Tim) Struthers


Dec2
Rebirth of the Flesh by Krzysztof Majer

  • They Have Bodies, by Barney Allen by Barney Allen and Gregory Betts


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