George Elliot Clarke Reading “Emmet Till”
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Review of Elana Wolff’s “Swoon”
by Keith Garebian Swoon Elana Wolff Guernica Editions (2020) ISBN: 9781771835077 Elana Wolff’s sixth poetry collection uses epigraphs that connote various meanings of “swoon:” The Living Torah’s example of Rebecca’s falling off a camel in a shock of elation at seeing Isaac; Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s slow swoon of life creeping back; Robert Walser’s example of…
Review of Anita Lahey’s “The Last Goldfish”
by Skylar Kay The Last Goldfish Anita Lahey Octopus Books (2020) ISBN: 9781771963435 Some books are page turners, keeping readers asking, ‘How will this end? I need to know!’ Lahey’s The Last Goldfish was, for me, not a page turner. I mean that in literally the best way possible, however. It has no air of…
FreeFall Magazine Launch | Issue 30-2
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Josephine LoRe: poet and photographer, an artist at her best
by Carla Scarano In her career as a writer and award-winning poet, Josephine LoRe, who is based in Calgary, Alberta, is a remarkable example of an independent and committed author. She has published two poetry collections, Unity and The Cowichan Series, where poetry and photography merge, as well as a short story, Cornflower. Her work…
Review of Sabrina Uswak’s “All the Night Gone”
by Ryan Stromquist All the Night Gone Sabrina Uswak Stonehouse Publishing (2020) ISBN: 978-1-988754-28-4 All the Night Gone, the debut novel of Sabrina Uswak, is another addition to the pantheon of road trip novels. The story begins with a disappearance: Maybe that’s why Dill left. Being in a place too small with a sky so…
Interview with Terry Ann Carter
by Skylar Kay Terry Ann Carter is an American born poet and paper artist who moved to Canada in 1965. Carter lives in Victoria, where she is the facilitator for the Haiku Arbutus Study Group. Author of seven collections of poetry and five haiku chapbooks, she is the past president of Haiku Canada, a member…
FreeFall Volume XXX Number 2
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Review of Jillian Christmas’ “The Gospel of Breaking”
by Marshall Gu The Gospel of Breaking Jillian Christmas Arsenal Pulp Press (2020) ISBN: 978-1551527970 The poems of Ontario- born, Vancouver-based Jillian Christmas’ The Gospel of Breaking range in length, with a few as short as only three lines and others spanning several parts across several pages. Meanwhile, the styles within these poems range from…