Review of Darusha Wehm’s “The Home for Wayward Parrots”
by Anne Logan The Home for Wayward Parrots Darusha Wehm NeWest Press (2018) ISBN 978-1-988732-27-5 What makes a coming-of-age story? Does it simply need to cover the years from birth…
Review of Bill Gallaher’s “High Rider”
by Shelley McAneeley High Rider Bill Gallaher TouchWood Editions (2015) ISBN 978-1-77151-114-8 This is a down home story from Alberta about one of the first black settlers in the area.…
Review of Cassidy McFadzean’s “Drolleries”
by Micheline Maylor Drolleries by Cassidy McFadzean McClelland & Stewart (2019) ISBN 978-0-77107-317-5 A poetry book should make a promise and an invitation on the opening page. Cassidy McFadzean’s, Drolleries,…
Review of Tanya Evanson’s “Nouveau Griot”
by Jamal Ali Nouveau Griot by Tanya Evanson Frontenac House (2018) ISBN: 978-1-927823-84-2 Tanya Evanson’s poetry collection, Nouveau Griot, takes readers on a journey into diverse worlds. A griot is…
Review of Kayla Czaga’s “Dunk Tank”
by Micheline Maylor Dunk Tank by Kayla Czaga House of Anansi Press (2019) ISBN 978-1-4870-0596-2 The poetry gods claim that a second book is much harder than the first because…
Review of dee Hobsbawn-Smith’s “What Can’t Be Undone”
by Tia Christoffersen What Can’t Be Undone by dee Hobsbawn-Smith Thistledown Press (2015) ISBN 978-1-927068-89-2 From the award-winning culinary writer and poet dee Hobsbawn Smith comes her first collection…
Review of Shane Neilson’s “New Brunswick”
by Skylar Kay New Brunswick by Shane Neilson Biblioasis (2019) ISBN 978-192-7823675 Shane Neilson’s New Brunswick forms a story of loss, love, and return, circling around New Brunswick as a…
Review of “Narrow Bridge” by Barbara Pelman
by Skylar Kay Narrow Bridge by Barbara Pelman Ronsdale Press (2017) ISBN 978-1-55380-508-3 Pelman’s Narrow Bridge is a musical ode to life, aging, acceptance, and rebirth in three parts. The…
Crystal Mackenzie’s Book Review of “On Huron’s Shore” by Marilyn Gear Pilling
Crystal Mackenzie A review of: On Huron’s Shore by Marilyn Gear Pilling Demeter Press (2014) ISBN 978-1-927335-34-5 We all have to grow up, some of us are just better at…
Book review of “Morning After You” by Carmelo Militano
gillian harding-russell a review of Morning After You By Carmelo Militano Ekstasis Editions (2014) ISBN 978-177-10343 Carmelo Militano writes from the perspective of an immigrant to Canada from Calabria, Italy…