Book Reviews

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Spawning Grounds by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
  • Wild Rose by Sharon Butala

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Woman Priest: A Translation of Sylvain Maréchal's Novel, La femme abbé by Sylvain Maréchal
  • Breakneck by Nelly Arcan and Jacob Homel

Together in Exile (p. 120-121)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Exile on a Grid Road by Shelley Banks
  • Last Stop, Lonesome Town by Tara Azzopardi

Rebel with a Cause (p. 121-123)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Reluctant Rebellions: New and Selected Nonfiction by Shauna Singh Baldwin

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Bad Things Happen by Kris Bertin
  • I, Dr. Greenblatt, Orthodontist, 251-1457 by Gary Barwin

Book(s) Reviewed

  • November's Radio by Steve Noyes
  • Pillow by Andrew Battershill

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Carol Shields and the Writer-Critic by Brenda Beckman-Long

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Counterblasting Canada: Marshall McLuhan, Wyndham Lewis, Wilfred Watson, and Sheila Watson by Gregory Betts, Paul Hjartarson and Kristine Smitka

Remaking Poetry (p. 128-130)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • All the Gold Hurts My Mouth by Katherine Leyton
  • Throaty Wipes by Susan Holbrook
  • Twoism by Ali Blythe

Time and Place (p. 130-132)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Shooter by Caroline Pignat
  • Straight to the Head by Fraser Nixon
  • As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust by Alan Bradley

Memory/Loss (p. 132-133)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Wind Leaves Absence by Mary Maxwell
  • A Map in My Blood by Carla Braidek
  • Frayed Opus for Strings & Wind Instruments by Ulrikka S. Gernes, Patrick Friesen and Per Brask

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Mercy Journals by Claudia Casper

Energy Fabulations (p. 134-135)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Once in Blockadia by Stephen Collis

Irrepressible (p. 135-137)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Home Place: Essays on Robert Kroetsch's Poetry by Dennis Cooley

Book(s) Reviewed

  • What We're Doing To Stay Afloat by Karin Cope
  • Tell Them It Was Mozart by Angeline Schellenberg

Marking Time (p. 138-140)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Wait Time: A Memoir of Cancer by Kenneth Sherman
  • A Year of Days by Myrl Coulter
  • I Wasn't Always Like This by Shelley A. Leedahl

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Timing Canada: The Shifting Politics of Time in Canadian Literary Culture by Paul Huebener
  • Imagining Care: Responsibility, Dependency, and Canadian Literature by Amelia DeFalco

In Still Water (p. 142-143)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Meditatio Placentae by Monty Reid
  • Kingdom by Elizabeth Ross
  • Disturbing the Buddha by Barry Dempster

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Cosmophilia by Rahat Kurd
  • Eigenheim by Joanne Epp

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Beyond Afghanistan: An International Security Agenda for Canada by James Fergusson and Francis Furtado
  • Living with War: Twentieth-Century Conflict in Canadian and American History and Memory by Robert Teigrob

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Serpentine Loop by Elee Kraljii Gardiner
  • Heaven's Thieves by Sue Sinclair
  • Tell: Poems for a Girlhood by Soraya Peerbaye

Hath Not a Jew (p. 147-149)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Dead Man by Nora Gold
  • The Uncollected David Rakoff by David Rakoff and Timothy G. Young
  • Further Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer by Stuart Ross

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Catullus's Soldiers by Daniel Goodwin
  • Short Takes on the Apocalypse by Patricia Young
  • Prometheus Reconsiders Fire by Brent MacLaine

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Unbound: Ukrainian Canadians Writing Home by Lisa Grekul and Lindy Ledohowski
  • After Identity: Mennonite Writing in North America by Robert Zacharias

Of Time and Trouble (p. 153-155)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Goosestep: Fictions and Docufictions by Harold Jaffe
  • Swinging Through Dixie by Leon Rooke
  • Conjugation by Phil Hall

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Meet Me on the Barricades by Charles Yale Harrison, Bart Vautour and Emily Robins Sharpe

Canadian Herstory (p. 156-157)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • After Light by Catherine Hunter
  • River Music by Mary Soderstrom

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Editing as Cultural Practice in Canada by Dean Irvine and Smaro Kamboureli

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Caribou Run by Richard Kelly Kemick
  • Shift by Kelly Shepherd
  • How to Be Eaten by a Lion by Michael Johnson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Complete Poems of George Whalley by Michael John DiSanto
  • The Essential D. G. Jones by D. G. Jones and Jim Johnstone

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Exceptional Mountains: A Cultural History of the Pacific Northwest Volcanoes by O. Alan Weltzien
  • Conrad Kain: Letters from a Wandering Mountain Guide, 1906-1933 by Conrad Kain and Zac Robinson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Unquiet Bones by Peter Midgley
  • Questions for Wolf by Shannon Quinn
  • Braided Skin by Chelene Knight

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Les corps extraterrestres by Pierre-Luc Landry

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ignite by Kevin Spenst
  • Our Inland Sea by James Lindsay
  • Country Club by Andy McGuire
  • jabbering with bing bong by Kevin Spenst

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays: Volume Three by Denyse Lynde

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel

Realism as Escape (p. 172-174)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • All the Things We Leave Behind by Riel Nason
  • Jettison by Nathaniel G. Moore

Eloquent Elegies (p. 174-175)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Barking & Biting: The Poetry of Sina Queyras by Sina Queyras and Erin Wunker
  • Abnormal Brain Sonnets by David McFadden

Parallel Lives (p. 175-177)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Pierre-Esprit Radisson: The Collected Writings, Volume 2: The Port Nelson Relations, Miscellaneous Writings, and Related Documents by Germaine Warkentin
  • The Writings of David Thompson, Volume 2: The Travels, 1848 Version, and Associated Texts by David Thompson and William E. Moreau

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Notes from a Feminist Killjoy: Essays on Everyday Life by Erin Wunker

Last Pages

  • Karyotype by Kim Trainor
  • The Description of the World by Johanna Skibsrud
  • Witness, I am by Gregory Scofield
  • Forecast: Selected Early Poems, 1970-1990 by John Pass
  • Otolith by Emily Nilsen
  • Reading Sveva by Daphne Marlatt
  • Regeneration Machine by Joe Denham