Book Reviews

Back to the Cabin (p. 103-104)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • In Case I Go by Angie Abdou
  • Glory by Gillian Wigmore

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Midday at the Super-Kamiokande by Matthew Tierney
  • After the Hatching Oven by David Alexander

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Stories of Oka: Land, Film, and Literature by Isabelle St-Amand
  • Keetsahnak / Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters by Kim Anderson, Maria Campbell and Christi Belcourt
  • Tracing Ochre: Changing Perspectives on the Beothuk by Fiona Polack

Minor Revelations (p. 107-109)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Book of Annotations by Cameron Anstee
  • The Nonnets by Aaron Giovannone
  • Standing in the Flock of Connections by Heather Cadsby

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Minerva's Owl: The Bereavement Phase of My Marriage by Carol Matthews
  • Deep Salt Water by Marianne Apostolides

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Inhabiting Memory in Canadian Literature/Habiter la mémoire dans la littérature canadienne by Benjamin Authers, Maité Snauwaert and Daniel Laforest

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Battle Lines: Canadian Poetry in English and the First World War by Joel Baetz

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Suzanne by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette and Rhonda Mullins
  • Madame Victoria by Catherine Leroux

Personal Places (p. 114-116)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • This Will Be Good by Mallory Tater
  • Ritual Lights by Joelle Barron
  • Little Wild by Curtis LeBlanc

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Collected Poems of Alden Nowlan by Alden Nowlan and Brian Bartlett
  • All Manner of Tackle: Living with Poetry by Brian Bartlett

Nostalgia Novels (p. 118-119)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Marry, Bang, Kill by Andrew Battershill
  • 1979 by Ray Robertson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Nights on Prose Mountain by bp Nichol and Derek Beaulieu

Tender but Uneasy (p. 120-121)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ruba'iyat for the Time of Apricots by Basma Kavanagh
  • Spit on the Devil by Samantha Bernstein
  • Simultaneous Windows by Mary Corkery

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Songen by Patrick Friesen
  • About Some End / West Broadway by George Bowering and George Stanley
  • Bad Engine by Michael Dennis

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Crow Jazz by Linda Rogers
  • Army of the Brave and Accidental by Alex Boyd

All in All (p. 123-124)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Elemental by Kate Braid
  • Slinky Naive by Caroline Szpak

Book(s) Reviewed

  • SKY WRI TEI NGS by Nasser Hussain
  • Port of Being by Shazia Hafiz Ramji
  • The Blue Clerk by Dionne Brand

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Les territoires imaginaires. Lieu et mythe dans la littérature québécoise by Vanessa Courville, Georges Desmeules and Christiane Lahaie
  • L'espace-temps dans les littératures périphériques du Canada by Mathieu Simard, Ariane Brun del Re and Isabelle Kirouac Massicotte

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Bird on Every Tree by Carol Bruneau
  • Peninsula Sinking by David Huebert

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Cartographie des vivants by Sarah Brunet Dragon
  • Les foires du Pacifique ou Les péripéties d'un guide expulsé du marché by Daniel Castillo Durante

Canvas and Page (p. 130-131)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Dusty Bookcase: A journey Through Canada's Forgotten, Neglected, and Suppressed Writing by Brian Busby
  • The Art of P. K. Irwin: observer, other, Gemini by Michèle Rackman Hall

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Zara's Dead by Sharon Butala
  • Oldness; or, the Last-Ditch Efforts of Marcus O by Brett Josef Grubisic

Voyages of Desire (p. 132-134)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Magnetic North: Sea Voyage to Svalbard by Jenna Butler
  • James Cook: The Voyages by William Frame and Laura Walker

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Towards a New Ethnohistory: Community Engaged Scholarship among the People of the River by Keith Thor Carlson, John Sutton Lutz, David M. Schaepe and Naxaxalhts’i (Albert “Sonny” McHalsie)

Mad Studies (p. 135-137)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Madrigal by Dian Day
  • The Year of My Disappearance by Carole David
  • Short Histories of Light by Aidan Chafe

Prises de parole (p. 137-138)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Perspectives créoles sur la culture et l'identité franco-ontariennes: Essai sur une prise de parole by Aurélie Lacassagne
  • Gabriel Dumont : mémoires et récits de vie by Denis Combet and Gabriel Dumont

Book(s) Reviewed

  • How Far We Go and How Fast by Nora Decter
  • Lost Boy by Shelley Hrdlitschka

Book(s) Reviewed

  • GUSH: Menstrual Manifestos for Our Times by Rosanna Deerchild, Ariel Gordon and Tanis MacDonald

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Eyelash and the Monochrome by Tiziana La Melia
  • The Unmooring by Adebe DeRango-Adem

Rethinking Hockey (p. 141-142)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Hockey: Challenging Canada's Game/Au-delà du sport national by Jennifer Anderson and Jenny Ellison

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La dévoration des fées by Catherine Lalonde
  • Manikanetish by Naomi Fontaine
  • Quelques lieux de Constance by Catherine Lavarenne

Écologie du crime (p. 144-145)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sans Terre by Marie-Eve Sevigny
  • La disparition de Kat Vandale by Christian Giguère

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sôhkêyihta: The Poetry of Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Halfe by Louise Bernice Halfe and David Gaertner

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Amateurs by Liz Harmer

Two BC Landscapes (p. 147-148)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Claiming the Land: British Columbia and the Making of a New El Dorado by Daniel Marshall
  • Ranch in the Slocan: A Biography of a Kootenay Farm, 1896-2017 by Cole Harris

Buried Treasures (p. 149-150)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Obits by Tess Liem
  • The Supreme Orchestra by David Turgeon and Pablo Strauss
  • Not Extinct by Marilyn James, Taress Alexis and Tyler Toews

Another Nationalism (p. 150-151)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Next Wave: An Anthology of 21st Century Canadian Poetry by Jim Johnstone

Rewilding Poetry (p. 151-152)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Blueberries and Apricots by Natasha Kanapé Fontaine
  • Fox Haunts by Penn Kemp

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Summer of the Horse by Donna Kane

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Undiscovered Country by Al Rempel
  • Dear Current Occupant: A Memoir by Chelene Knight

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Autoportrait de Paris avec chat by Dany Laferrière
  • Sensorielles: Autour de Paul Chanel Malenfant by Vincent Lambert and Jacques Paquin

Book(s) Reviewed

  • I Don't Want to Know Anyone Too Well: Collected Stories by Norman Levine

A Way around Death (p. 156-157)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Small Things that End the World by Jeanette Lynes
  • Provoked by Gilgamesh: The Search for a Way Around Death by Gilmour Walker

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Hardness of Matter and Water by Pierre Nepveu and Donald Winkler
  • Ship of Gold: The Essential Poems of Émile Nelligan by Émile Nelligan and Marc di Saverio

Lueurs aveuglantes (p. 158-159)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Trompeuses lumières by Michel Ouellette
  • Sous le soleil de midi by Aurélie Resch

Les rives du chaos (p. 159-160)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le sexe de Fidel by Claudine Potvin

La vie malgré tout (p. 160-161)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Birdie by Tracey Lindberg and Catherine Ego
  • La littérature malgré tout by François Ricard

Book(s) Reviewed

  • West/Border/Road: Nation and Genre in Contemporary Canadian Narrative by Katherine Ann Roberts

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Peau rouge, masques blancs by Glen Sean Coulthard, Arianne Des Rochers and Alex Gauthier
  • Danser sur le dos de notre tortue by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Anne-Marie Regimbald

Writing for Readers (p. 164-165)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Anarchists in the Academy: Machines and Free Readers in Experimental Poetry by Dani Spinosa

Vancouver Gothic (p. 165-166)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Rule of Stephens by Timothy Taylor

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Our Animal Hearts by Dania Tomlinson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Crossing of Hearts by Michel Tremblay

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Y: Oppenheimer, Horseman of Los Alamos by Aaron Tucker
  • Dazzle Patterns by Alison Watt

Book(s) Reviewed

  • 9x11 and other poems like Bird, Nine, x, and Eleven by Michael Turner
  • Self-Defence for the Brave and Happy by Paul Vermeersch

Writing Illness (p. 170-171)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Bird-Bent Grass: A Memoir, in Pieces by Kathleen Venema

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Least You Can Do Is Be Magnificent: Selected and New Writings by Steve Venright

Talk is Hope(less) (p. 172-173)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • After Class by George F. Walker

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Culture by Sheena Wilson, Adam Carlson and Imre Szeman

Book(s) Reviewed

  • What Your Hands Have Done by Chris Bailey
  • The Book of Sensations by Sheri-D Wilson