By Vivian Hansen In A Riptide by Ronna Bloom Brick Books (2025) Lolograssing: What Means This? Ronna Bloom’s exploration into death is an honour; as

By Jonathan Greenbaum Dear Humans: Stories by Hollie Adams NeWest Press (2026) Nowadays we pick up works of fiction that mix genres to achieve the

By Catherine Owen A Single Syllable of Wild by Angela Waldie Frontenac House (2026) In many ways, the title sums up this first collection’s deep intent:

By Catherine Owen Baba Yaga and the Girl Who Ate the Rope by Kate Rogers Frontenac House (2026) When I was young, fairy and folk tales were one of the

By Kathryn MacDonald Two Songs: Selected Poems 2000-2025 by Russell Thornton Harbour Publishing (2026) With nine previous collections, Russell Thornton is

By Keith Garebian Everybody Knows a Ghost by Elana Wolff Guernica Editions (2026) The title foregrounds universality, knowledge, and the spectral.

By Kathryn McDonald Long Exposureby Stephanie BolsterPalimpsest Press (2025) Long Exposure is Stephanie Bolster’s fifth and most recent poetry collection.

By Micheline Maylor Mythologies of Outer Space edited by Jim Ellis and Noreen Humble University of Calgary Press (2025) “The moon belongs to everyone - /

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

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

By Frances Boyle Stock by Jennifer Bowering Delisle Coach House Books (2025) We’ve all seen those smiling faces. Impossibly joyful families, mother

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

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

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

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

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?

A.F. Moritz’s The Wren is a book of Zen koans written by an urban monk posing as a poet. Suggestive of a reflective period after facing health concerns, the poems bypass ordinary logic to flirt with m...

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By Michael Frey Beneath the Surface of Things by Wade Davis Greystone Books (2024) Wade Davis' latest essay collection "Beneath" offers a social

By Vivian Hansen Rag Pickers by Blaine Newton University of Calgary Press (2025) Thomas Trofimuk’s blurb offered me a guiding question on this review of

By Catherine Owen Unravel by Tolu Oloruntoba Penguin Random House (2025) Unravel is a poetry of serious sonority, worthy of engraving on stone: lyrical,

Lisa Pasold grew up in Tio'tia:ke/Montréal. She is a storyteller and poet. She has published 6 books, mostly of poetry; a chapbook, Kindnes...

By Catherine Owen Total by Aisha Sasha John McClelland and Stewart (2025) Performative poetry, page-bound, retains its power, but also establishes a

By Beth Everest Great Silent Ballad by A.F. Moritz House of Anansi (2024) The 22nd book of poetry by A.F. Moritz is not a quick read. Nor should it be.

By Kathryn MacDonald Rebellion Box by Hollay Ghadery Radiant Press (2023) Perhaps one shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but the cover of Rebellion Box

By Megan Nega Some of the Facts: Jasper: When Tales Were Told by Beth Everest Frontenac House (2024) Beth Everest’s new collection of short fiction about

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By Catherine Owen Hard Electric by Michael Blouin Anvil Press (2024) A reviewer’s main aim should be to offer intelligent critique within a context of the

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

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By Jonathan Greenbaum Blue Runaways: Stories by Jann Everard Stonehewer Books (2024) Those of us who read the CanLit magazines know that emerging writers

Shannon Webb-Campbell’s latest poetry collection, Re:Wild Her, is inhabited by an otherworldly narrator – part mystic, part pagan, part cool auntie, part It girl, all the way feminist goddess. The ded...

By Vincent Potter Limited Verse by David Martin University of Calgary Press (2024) The best science fiction uses its theoretical framing to investigate

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