Review of Kim Fahner’s “Emptying the Ocean”
By Beth Everest Emptying the Ocean by Kim Fahner Frontenac House (2022) Because the title, itself, of Kim Fahner’s latest book suggests the impossible, I am instantly intrigued, and Emptying…
By Beth Everest Emptying the Ocean by Kim Fahner Frontenac House (2022) Because the title, itself, of Kim Fahner’s latest book suggests the impossible, I am instantly intrigued, and Emptying…
by Jaclyn Pahl Pilgrim to No Country by Anvesh Jain Frontenac House (2022) In his debut poetry collection, Pilgrim to No Country, Anvesh Jain promises to “pen the great ironies…
by Sharon Berg Toast Soldiers by Bruce Meyers Crowsnest Books (2021) Bruce Meyers is a prolific, award-winning writer. Every story in Toast Soldiers is both insightful and serious, with protagonists…
by Shelley McAneeley Five Little Indians by Michelle Good Harper Perennial (2020) Michelle Good reminds me of my grandfather and the time when storytellers spun words into magic. Five Little…
by Shelley McAneeley Meeting Thoreau at the Gas Station Diner by Marty Gervais Urban Farmhouse Press (2022) In the mid-to-late sixties, hippies and curious seekers took off to wherever, whatever,…
By Yvonne Blomer Fields of Light and Stone by Angeline Schellenberg University of Alberta Press (2020) Fields of Light and Stone is a book of poems through which Angeline Schellenberg…
By Yvonne Blomer intertidal: poems from the littoral zone by Zoe Dickinson Raven Chapbooks (2022) The title alone of this slim volume of astonishing poems says much – both intertidal…
By Sharon Berg Waves by Diane Girard Volume Publishing (2021) What was I expecting inside this simple cover on a seemingly self-published book? I don’t mind admitting I recognized my…
By Crystal Mackenzie Home Waltz by G.A Grisenthwaite Palimpsest Press (2020) Set in 1973, in a town near Kamloops B.C, Home Waltz by G.A Grisenthwaite is a typical coming of…
By Micheline Maylor Awâsis: Kinky and Dishevelled by Lousie B. Halfe Sky Dancer Brick (2021) Awâsis: Kinky and Dishevelled by Louise B. Halfe Sky Dancer is a trickster’s book of…