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Current Issue
242 Emerging Scholars, Redux
(2020)

Featured Poem

Poem in Memory of an Earlier Poem
By Sharon Thesen
A moment ago the light was perfect & the poem itself a perfect memory—its occasion another light, perfection so confusing I was there without getting…

Featured Book Review

Everyday Oddities
  • Letters to Omar by Rachel Wyatt
  • Spaz by Bonnie Bowman
Reviewed by Margo Gouley
Bonnie Bowman’s Spaz and Rachel Wyatt’s Letters to Omar are classified as comedic novels in both the blurbs and micro reviews appearing on their jacket covers. But what makes a novel funny? It is impossible to reduce humour to the wit of a particular turn of phrase, the energy of…

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Emerging Scholars, Redux: Author – Shannon Claire Toll
Shannon Toll is an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Literatures and Cultures of North America at the University of Dayton. Her ...

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Laurie McNeill wins 2021 Killam Teaching Prize
April 13, 2021

New Issue: Emerging Scholars, Redux #242
March 18, 2021

Seasons Greetings
December 24, 2020

Verse Forward: Poetry on the Frontlines: Author Spotlight—Jillian Christmas
November 24, 2020

Verse Forward: Poetry on the Frontlines: Author Spotlight—Fred Wah
November 17, 2020

Verse Forward: Poetry on the Frontlines: Author Spotlight—Isabella Wang
November 10, 2020

Verse Forward: Poetry on the Frontlines: Author Spotlight–Kevin Spenst
November 3, 2020

Verse Forward: Poetry on the Frontlines
October 23, 2020

Farewell & Welcome
October 14, 2020

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

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Apr9
Staging Inherited Stories by Alexandra Kovacs

  • Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre by Kailin Wright


Apr9
Storying Resurgence by Sylvie Vranckx

  • Performing Turtle Island by Jesse Rae Archibald-Barber, Kathleen Irwin and Moira Day
  • Literatures, Communities, and Learning: Conversations with Indigenous Writers by Aubrey Hanson


Apr9
New York to Muddy York by Ruth Bradley-St-Cyr

  • Pulpit, Press, and Politics: Methodists and the Market for Books in Upper Canada by Scott McLaren


Mar19
Women in Publishing by Melissa Dalgleish

  • Toronto Trailblazers: Women in Canadian Publishing by Ruth Panofsky


Mar19
A Book Review, over Thirty Years Too Late by Robert Thacker

  • Alice Munro: Paradox and Parallel by W. R. Martin


Mar19
Epic Perceptions by Carl Watts

  • Crito Di Volta: An Epic by Marc di Saverio
  • If You Discover a Fire by Shaun Robinson


Mar19
Little but Resilient by Robert May

  • Little Resilience: The Ryerson Poetry Chap-Books by Eli MacLaren


Mar19
Stories, Good Food, and Friends by June Scudeler

  • A Generous Spirit: Selected Works by Beth Brant by Beth Brant and Janice Gould


Mar19
Fiction Aslant of Memoir by Emily Ballantyne

  • Dual Citizens by Alix Ohlin
  • Frying Plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta


Mar19
A Dis-Ease in Lyric and Fragment by Jessi MacEachern

  • The Elements by Erín Mouré
  • Render by Sachiko Murakami
  • The Outer Wards by Sadiqa de Meijer


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