New Book Reviews

June 20, 2017

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
Subjects: Novel

June 13, 2017

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Fauxccasional Poems by Daniel Scott Tysdal
  • The Relativistic Empire by Samuel Andreyev
  • Myrmurs: An Exploded Sestina by Shannon Maguire
Subjects: Poetry

June 6, 2017

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Kalyana by Rajni Mala Khelawan
  • Friendly Fire by Lisa Guenther
Subjects: Fiction

May 30, 2017

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Queer Mobilizations: Social Movement Activism and Canadian Public Policy by Manon Tremblay
  • Making a Scene: Lesbians and Community across Canada, 1964-84 by Liz Millward
Subjects: Queer Theory

May 23, 2017

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Startle and Illuminate: Carol Shields on Writing by Anne Giardini and Nicholas GIardini
  • As Always: Memoir of a Life in Writing by Madeleine Gagnon and Phyllis Aronoff

May 19, 2017

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Measures of Astonishment: Poets on Poetry by League of Canadian Poets
  • Public Poetics: Critical Issues in Canadian Poetry and Poetics by Bart Vautour, Erin Wunker, Travis V. Mason and Christl Verduyn
Subjects: Poetry

May 16, 2017

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
Subjects: Poetry

May 12, 2017

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Who Needs Books? Reading in the Digital Age by Lynn Coady
  • The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy by Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber

May 9, 2017

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
Subjects: Life Writing

May 5, 2017

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Missing Link: The Evolution of Metaphor and the Metaphor of Evolution by Jeffery Donaldson
  • What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? by Vinciane Despret and Brett Buchanan

March 30, 2017

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

March 29, 2017

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Injun by Jordan Abel
  • page as bone — ink as blood by Jónína Kirton
  • She Tries her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks by M. Nourbese Philip
Subjects: Poetry

March 29, 2017

Book(s) Reviewed

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

March 29, 2017

Book(s) Reviewed

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

March 29, 2017

Irrepressible (p. 135-137)

Book(s) Reviewed

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