By Olga Stein Archeologia Eros by Carmelo Militano McNally Robinson (2021) Carmelo Militano’s poetry collection, Archeologia Eros, is divided into four sections or parts. They are as follows: “Eros’s Seasons,”…
By Tonya Lailey What Kind of Daughter? by Rayanne Haines Frontenac House Poetry (2024) The title of Rayanne Haines’ fourth book of poetry asks one of many hard questions the…
By Jonathan Greenbaum Blue Runaways: Stories by Jann Everard Stonehewer Books (2024) Those of us who read the CanLit magazines know that emerging writers abound in the pages of these…
By Vincent Potter Limited Verse by David Martin University of Calgary Press (2024) The best science fiction uses its theoretical framing to investigate our current reality from pretend perspectives—by stepping…
By Mary Vlooswyk Death Of Persephone: A Murder by Yvonne Blomer Caitlin Press (2024) From the title, one can deduce Death of Persephone: A Murder is about mystery solving. Blomer’s…
By Catherine Owen Ghost Work by Robert Colman Palimpsest Press (2024) The elegy, for me, is poetry’s core. You have no choice but to take risks, delve deep, accept the…
By Vivian Hansen Hides by Rod Moody-Corbett Breakwater Books (2024) He is unnamed. But he is well known to us. We have sat in his classroom, shared his bench at…
By Vivian Hansen The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer Simon & Schuster (2024) I pluck the easy-going Saskatoon berries, a few sacrificial ones…
By Mary Vlooswyk What Holiness Will I Bring? by Richard Osler Frontenac House (2024) On July 5, 2024 Richard Osler shared news of his esophageal cancer diagnosis with readers of…
By Lori Hahnel The Primitives by Darlene Barry Quaife Friesen Press (2024) The Spanish Civil War of 1936 – 1939 has inspired the work of a great many writers and…