Review of Casey Plett’s “On Community”
by Joni Doornenbal On Community by Casey Plett Biblioasis (2023) Casey Plett’s new book-length essay On Community is a gracious contemplation of community in its many iterations, from the catty…
Review of Catherine Owen’s “Moving to Delilah”
By Tonya Lailey Moving to Delilah by Catherine Owen Freehand Books (2024) I just walked in, beneath the simple lintel, and the walls spoke in a definite whisper, “My name…
Review of Astrid Blodgett’s “This is How You Start to Disappear”
By Kendall Bistretzan This is How You Start to Disappear by Astrid Blodgett University of Alberta Press (2023) Short story writer Astrid Blodgett explores loss, family dynamics, and uncomfortable truths…
Review of David Martin’s “Kink Bands”
By Steven Ross Smith Kink Bands by David Martin NeWest Press (2023) We’re in the mountains here, or in a classroom, or touring earth … but where doesn’t exactly matter…
Welcome Shone Thistle, Calgary’s 7th Poet Laureate
By Michaela Ritchie On April 30, 2024, Calgary Arts Development announced that Shone Thistle would become Calgary’s seventh Poet Laureate, stepping into the office from 2024-2026. An avid reader and…
Review of Ariel Gordon and Brenda Schmidt’s “Siteseeing”
By Frances Boyle Siteseeing by Ariel Gordon and Brenda Schmidt At Bay Press (2023) Siteseeking is the result of a year-long conversation in poetry between two writers celebrated for their…
AMPA Award Finalists
The AMPA awards finalists have been announced. Congratulations to Tyler Hein for “Mouse Trap” (fiction), Dee Hobsbawn-Smith for “Departure” (poetry), and Bruce Hunter for “Dark Water” (poetry). We would also…
If You Lie Down in a Field, She Will Find You There
Michelle Hardy A Review of: If You Lie Down in a Field, She Will Find You There Colleen BrownRadiant Press, 2023 ISBN: 978-1-98927-494-1 110 pages $20.00 CAD Remembering an…
Review of Lisa Alward’s “Cocktail”
By Skylar Kay Cocktail by Lisa Alward Biblioasis (2023) The stories of Cocktail all revolve around ideas of family, finding belonging, and the pitfalls that come with love—either familial or…
Three Books on Poetics Reviewed by Catherine Owen
By Catherine Owen Imagining Imagining by Gary Barwin Wolsak and Wynn (2023) “I love the syncretic web of experience,” Gary Barwin states exuberantly in his essay “The Selected Walks,” from…