By Kathryn McDonald Long Exposureby Stephanie BolsterPalimpsest Press (2025) Long Exposure is Stephanie Bolster’s fifth and most recent poetry collection. Readers may know Bolster’s writing from her Governor General’s Award…
By Micheline Maylor Mythologies of Outer Space edited by Jim Ellis and Noreen Humble University of Calgary Press (2025) “The moon belongs to everyone – / the best things in…
By Vivian Hansen The Longest Night by Lauren Carter Freehand Books (2025) There are tropes to be observed in the writing of a time-travel novel. The major trope: do not…
By Beth Everest The Blue Gate by Kathryn MacDonald Frontenac House Poetry (2026) From the very first poem in Kathryn MacDonald’s latest book The Blue Gate, the poet held me,…
By Frances Boyle Stock by Jennifer Bowering Delisle Coach House Books (2025) We’ve all seen those smiling faces. Impossibly joyful families, mother impeccably groomed as she serves weekday breakfasts or…
By Kathryn MacDonald What We Know So Far Is… by Conor Mc Donnell Wolsak and Wynn (2025) Conor Mc Donnell has published two poetry collections and three chapbooks and now…
By Mary Vlooswyk The Oneironaut 02 by Sheri-D Wilson Write Bloody North (2025) The Oneironaut 02 by Sheri-D Wilson, is the second book in her long-poem fantasy, dystopian trilogy. The…
Review by Catherine Owen If I Know Anything About a Knife by Carley Mayson Frontenac House (2025) The need to be honest about one’s torments, from addiction and self-harm, to…
By Bruce Hunter On a Tension of Leaves and Binding by Renée M. Sgroi Guernica Editions (2024) I was first introduced to Renée Sgroi’s poetry online at the Oakville Literary…
By Catherine Owen Lost Signal by Chris Hutchinson Palimpsest Press (2025) If you don’t have an ear for the music of language, why do you write poems? This, the confused…