Book Reviews

From a Distance (p. 102-103)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Mountain Story by Lori Lansens
  • Between by Angie Abdou
  • How does a single blade of grass thank the sun? by Doretta Lau

Book(s) Reviewed

  • "Métis": Race, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood by Chris Anderson
  • Métis in Canada: History, Identity, Law, and Politics by Christopher Adams, Gregg Dahl and Ian Peach

Generational Tides (p. 106-07)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • There Can Never Be Enough by David Arnason
  • Boundary Problems by Greg Bechtel
  • Nothing Looks Familiar by Shawn Syms

Book(s) Reviewed

  • On Malice by Ken Babstock
  • Moon Baboon Canoe by Gary Barwin

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Shouting Your Name Down the Well: Tankas and Haiku by David McFadden
  • Night Vision by Christopher Levenson
  • Swimming with Turtles: Travel Narratives, Spirit of Place by Doug Beardsley

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Trop de Lumière pour Samuel Gaska by Étienne Beaulieu

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Ever After of Ashwin Rao by Padma Viswanathan
  • Fauji Banta Singh and Other Stories by Sadhu Binning

Looking Back (p. 112-113)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Come Back by Rudy Wiebe
  • My October by Claire Holden Rothman
  • Mirror on the Floor by George Bowering

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Washita: Poems by Patrick Lane
  • Selected Poems by Tim Bowling

Effortlessness (p. 115-116)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Serious Call by Don Coles
  • Short Talks: Brick Book Classics 1 by Anne Carson
  • Dog Ear by Jim Johnstone

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Marinetti Dines with the High Command: A Manifesto and Five Aeropoems by Richard A. Cavell
  • Jonas in Frames: an epic by Chris Hutchinson
  • The Incomparables by Alexandra Leggat

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le roman sans aventure by Isabelle Daunais

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Boy Lost in Wild by Brenda Hasiuk
  • How You Were Born by Kate Cayley

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L'album multicolore by Louise Dupré
  • La revanche de l'écrivaine fantôme by David Turgeon

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Pourquoi Bologne by Alain Farah

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Lake of Two Mountains by Arleen Paré
  • The Scarborough by Michael Lista
  • Satisfying Clicking Sound by Jason Guriel

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection by Michael Harris

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Adrian and the Tree of Secrets by Hubert, Marie Caillou and David Homel
  • When Everything Feels Like the Movies by Raziel Reid

Beyond the Mist (p. 127-28)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro

Defining Moments (p. 128-29)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Most Beautiful Deception by Melissa Morelli Lacroix
  • The things I heard about you by Alex Leslie
  • Vittoria Colonna: Selections from the Rime Spirituali by Jan Zwicky and Robert Moody

Against Disaster (p. 129-31)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Home: Chronicles of a North Country Life by Beth Powning
  • Know the Night: A Memoir of Survival in the Small Hours by Maria Mutch
  • The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be by J. B. MacKinnon

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sanaaq: An Inuit Novel by Mitiarjuk Attasie Nappaaluk, Bernard Saladin d’Anglure and Peter Frost
  • Mind’s Eye: Stories from Whapmagoostui by Susan Marshall and Emily Masty

Music and Words (p. 133-34)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Cusp: Word Sonnets by Jan Zwicky, Darren Bifford and Warren Heiti
  • Chamber Music: The Poetry of Jan Zwicky by Seymour Mayne and Sebastian Frye

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Painted Fires by Nellie L. McClung
  • Flora Lyndsay; or, Passages in an Eventful Life by Susanna Moodie and Michael Peterman

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Angular Unconformity: Collected Poems, 1970-2014 by Don McKay

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Pour une poésie impure by Robert Melançon

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Townships. Récits d’origine by William S. Messier

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Freedom in American Songs by Kathleen Winter
  • All Saints by K. D. Miller

Book(s) Reviewed

  • undercurrent by Rita Wong
  • Corked by Catriona Strang
  • From the Poplars by Cecily Nicholson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Regenerations: Canadian Women’s Writing by Marie Carrière and Patricia Demers
  • Sheila Watson: Essays on Her Works by Joseph Pivato

How To Be Whole? (p. 143-44)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • She of the Mountains by Vivek Shraya and Raymond Biesinger
  • God Loves Hair by Vivek Shraya and Juliana Neufield

Book(s) Reviewed

  • In Your Crib by Austin Clarke
  • The Black Atlantic Reconsidered: Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History, and the Presence of the Past by Winfried Siemerling

A Little and A Lot (p. 146-48)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Essential Anne Wilkinson by Anne Wilkinson and Ingrid Ruthig
  • The Collected Poems of Miriam Waddington Volume 1 by Miriam Waddington and Ruth Panofsky
  • The Collected Poems of Miriam Waddington Volume 2 by Miriam Waddington and Ruth Panofsky

Dreaming of Home (p. 148-49)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Year in China: Bill Wong's Diarie in His Father's Home Village 1936-37 by Joanne Poon and Bill Wong