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Current Issue
251 Poetics and Extraction
(2022)

Featured Poem

Arks
By Russell Thornton
A river runs chasing its stillness A leaf flying away in a postage stamp sending itself back to itself The grass is searching through the…

Featured Book Review

“waist-deep in the criss-cross river of shadows”
  • Sharing the Past: The Reinvention of History in Canadian Poetry since 1960 by J. A. Weingarten
Reviewed by Ryan J. Cox
Margaret Prang, addressing the Canadian Historical Association in 1977, implored her fellow historians to pay attention to what was happening in Canadian literature. She argued that “the sharpest and most convincing portrayals of [limited] identities . . . come not from historians but from our poets, novelists and short story…

Spotlight


Issue 247 Author Spotlight – Brian Barlett
Brian Bartlett has published fifteen collections and chapbooks of poetry, including The Watchmaker’s Table, The Afterlife of Trees, and ...

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New Issue: 251 — Poetics and Extraction
April 12, 2023
New Issue: 250 — General
February 9, 2023
In Memory of Y-Dang Troeung
November 27, 2022
New Issue: 249 – Pasts, Presents, and Futures of Canadian Comics
November 23, 2022
New Issue: 248, General
September 16, 2022
Past Editor Eva-Marie Kröller Order of Canada Appointee June 2022
July 8, 2022
New Issue: 247, General
May 13, 2022
Verse Forward 3: A Poetry Reading Series
April 7, 2022
A Forum on “Poetics, Energy, and Extraction”
March 18, 2022
New Issue: 246, Refugee Worldmaking: Canada and the Afterlives of the Vietnam War
February 15, 2022

Latest Books Reviewed

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Apr17
Scots and Empire by Margery Fee

  • Writing the Empire: The McIlwraiths, 1853-1948 by Eva-Marie Kröller

Apr14
A Lingering Impact by Suzanne James

  • Dusk in the Frog Pond and Other Stories by Rummana Chowdhury
  • Householders by Kate Cayley

Apr12
Healing Relations by Sylvie Vranckx

  • The Arts of Indigenous Health and Well-Being by Nancy Van Styvendale, J. D. McDougall, Robert Henry and Robert Alexander Innes
  • Earthworks Rising: Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts by Allen Chadwick
  • A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other: Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty from the Northwest Coast by Charlotte Coté

Apr7
Updating the Companion by Sharon Engbrecht

  • The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood: Second Edition by Coral Ann Howells

Mar29
The Luminous World of Chelene Knight by Minelle Mahtani

  • Junie by Chelene Knight

Mar24
Not What You See but What You Know Is There by Colin Hill

  • Mavis Gallant: The Eye and the Ear by Marta Dvořák

Mar22
Three Failures by Kelly Baron

  • Choosing Eleonore by Andrée A. Gratton
  • The Beautiful Place by Lee Gowan
  • The Music Game by Stéfanie Clermont

Mar17
Garden Metaphors by Susie DeCoste

  • Almost Beauty: New and Selected Poems by Sue Sinclair
  • Land of the Rock: Talamh on Carraig by Heather Nolan
  • You May Not Take the Sad and Angry Consolations by Shane Neilson

Feb20
Post-Dated by Shane Neilson

  • A History of Canadian Fiction by David Staines

Feb17
A Small Review by Eric Schmaltz

  • the book of smaller by rob mclennan