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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 16h

Read Benjamin Haupt's review of Xitlalitl Rodríguez Mendoza's JAWS (pub. Cardboard House Press) in Issue 36! ...Although her language is largely concrete, Mendoza resists tidy resolution in favour of evocative ambiguity... www.thetemzreview.com/haupt-rodri7...

The cover of JAWS, by Xitlalitl Rodríguez Mendoza. It's abstract, with horizontal waves of pink against a dark purple background. The title and author's name are off-kilter

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 16h

Read Hannah Gardiner's review of Jenny Erpenbeck's Things That Disappear (pub. @ndbooks.bsky.social) in Issue 36! ...Anyone looking for a kind of renewed poetic attention to things will find in Erpenbeck’s new book a worthy companion... www.thetemzreview.com/gardiner-erp...

The cover of Things That Disappear, by Jenny Erpenbeck. It has a photo of an empty wooden frame, leaning against a gray wall

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 16h

Read @amandaearl.bsky.social's review of @jenfalkner.bsky.social' Susanna Hall, Her Book (pub. @fishgottaswim.bsky.social) in Issue 36! ...[It] is a compelling read with a ghostly tone and vivid recountings of history that is staying with me... www.thetemzreview.com/earl-falkner...

The cover of Jennifer Falkner's Susanna Hall, Her Book. It looks like a Victorian color drawing of a red poppy from an encyclopedia of plants

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 16h

Read D.B.'s review of Patrick Woodcock's Farhang: Book Two (pub. @ecwpress.bsky.social) in Issue 36! ...Woodcock possesses a rare ability to move between philosophical reflection and concrete physical detail without sacrificing momentum... www.thetemzreview.com/db-woodcock....

The cover of Farhang: Book Two, by Patrick Woodcock. It's a slightly cartoonish depiction of a many dressed in a robe of crumpled text, screaming at the dark, starry night around him

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 17h

Read @joyceboucharaa.bsky.social's review of Monique Gray Smith's Sharing the Light (pub. @houseofanansi.bsky.social)! Through stories of gratitude, love, joy, happiness, and hope, she encourages us to seek the light within ourselves and in the world around us www.thetemzreview.com/bou-charaa-g...

The cover of Sharing the Light: Stories and Reflections, by Monique Gray Smith. The cover has a black background, with stylized flowers that look like beadwork on it, and a hummingbird in the middle of the flowers

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 17h

Read @bonnycd.bsky.social's thoughtful review of Alison Gadsby's Breathing Is How Some People Stay Alive (pub. Guernica) in Issue 36! ...On paper, Breathing is exactly what I should want from a new short fiction collection coming out in Canada in 2026... www.thetemzreview.com/bonnycd-gads...

The cover of Breathing Is How Some People Stay Alive, by Alison Gadsby. It's a black-and-white photo of a woman underwater, with many bubbles around her face and head

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 17h

Read @bonnycd.bsky.social's review of @kyleflemmer.com's The Wiki of Babel (pub. @ucalgarypress.bsky.social)! ...Flemmer’s particularly pointed filching of a commons resource by and large is not circular, does not stray down dark, dead-ended net-alleys... www.thetemzreview.com/bonnycd-flem...

The cover of The Wiki of Babel, by Kyle Flemmer. It looks like a zoomed-in Wikipedia page, with the title in blue italics in the middle of unrelated text

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Read @lisatimpf.bsky.social's interview of Ian Thomas re: Green Islands (pub. Raven Chapbooks) in Iss 36! I think poetry itself has a special connection to the science of ecology, because to me, poetry is fundamentally ecological in its approach to language... www.thetemzreview.com/timpf-thomas...

The cover of Green Islands, by Ian Thomas. The background is black; in the centre, there is a rectangular, artistic depiction of pine trees on small islands, with large mountains in the distance. The cover has a gold seal on it that says it is a contest winner

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Read Aaliya Sylvia's interview of Elizabeth Urso re: Hail Mary (pub. @simonschusterca.bsky.social)! [It] began as a single image: a woman teaching at her own alma mater digs up a time capsule and inside is a rosary with teeth strung up like prayer beads... www.thetemzreview.com/sylvia-urso-...

The cover of Hail Mary, by Elizabeth Urso. The background color is a dark gray. In the middle, there is a black-and-white woman's torso that is being eaten into by brightly colored flames. The title and author's name are bright chartreuse

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Don't miss Salma Hussain's interview of Sima Qadeer re: Brown Girls, Grown Up (pub. @nupress.bsky.social) in Issue 36! ...I’m a pantser. I didn’t write by an outline or a structure. My process was to sit down, try to treat it as a nine-to-five... www.thetemzreview.com/hussain-qade...

The cover of Brown Girls, Grown Up, by Sima Qadeer. The background is a reddish-orange. There are two large, abstract circles with pink and purple tinges taking up most of the space. The title and author's name are in yellow

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Don't miss Aaron Schneider's important essay on Alistair MacLeod's Island. Why does McLelland & Stewart think that a book that valorizes SA in general and SA of Indigenous/Black women in particular belongs in its reconciliation-focused Kanata Classics? www.thetemzreview.com/schneider-ma...

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@bookhugpress @bookhugpress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"I devoured the book whole as if it was happening in the moment, and I was the one going through the tumultuous incidents in it.” @amandaearl.bsky.social reviews Miranda Schreiber's debut novel, Iris and the Dead, for @thetemzreview.bsky.social. www.thetemzreview.com/earl-schreib...

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Read Elwen Bernard-Kostadinov's insightful creative non-fiction "Someone Who Hurts the Dog" in Issue 36! At first the dog barks at me. I pet her and my host says, Pet her. Be aggressive about it. I’m sorry she keeps doing this, she says. It’s disturbing. ... www.thetemzreview.com/bernard-kost...

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Read Jane Berger Herschlag's moving creative non-fiction "A Catastrophic Turn of Events" in Issue 36. Content warning: Graphic sexual assault & incest ...To see reality is to relinquish hope; it means death... www.thetemzreview.com/herschlag-36...

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Don't miss Violet Pitsker's acerbic story "The Cuttlebone" in Issue 36! ...I told my boyfriend that I was in love with Sasha. He laughed; I felt a spur of anger. A man’s sexuality was different, I thought. It writhed in my DMs like beached fish... www.thetemzreview.com/pitsker-36.h...

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Read @breezenavarro.bsky.social's poignant spec fic "First of May" in Issue 36! ...I stand at the edge of oblivion, stare out into the depths of sky, sea blue, night dark, canyon deep and wonder what’s out there for me... www.thetemzreview.com/navarro-36.h...

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Read @jimgenia.bsky.social's moving story "Zuya (Warrior)" in Issue 36! First her aunt called to say her father died, then her boss asked if she’d murder his mother. Twenty-year-old Zuya the Fancy Dancer. Reservation refugee, stripper... www.thetemzreview.com/genia-36.html

Photo of Jim Genia, seated outside at a powwow in front of a drum and next to an older man. The sun is the warm orange of late afternoon

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Don't miss Sophia Bosma's eerie story "Dead" in Issue 36! ...Another week went by before she spoke. My sister, the dead girl, and I were sprawled on the grass in the backyard as my mother circled with her gardening shears... www.thetemzreview.com/bosma-36.html

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Read Mei Backof's haunting story "All the Delaware Angels" in Issue 36! Content warning: Horror There was no electricity after the angels came. There was something about how they sang. ... www.thetemzreview.com/backof-36.html

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Read Testimony Akinkunmi's excellent story "The journey eats a person" in Issue 36! The letter came on a Tuesday. Brown envelope, Home Office crest, my name spelled correctly for once... www.thetemzreview.com/akinkunmi-36...

Photo of Testimony Akinkunmi, standing outside on a gray, cloudy day in front of a green lawn, a red-brick building, and a partially-built apartment building in the background

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Read Alba Zalli's fantastic poem "Makeup Tutorial for Beginners" in Issue 36! ... Our fingers tangle between lip-gloss shine, And swallowing stones. Girlhood rituals. Except I’ve not been a girl in a long time, And you haven’t started yet. It’s residual. ... www.thetemzreview.com/zalli-36.html

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Don't miss Joshua St. Claire's wonderful poem "Peonyverse" in Issue 36! the dust that took Shannon Hoon ivory peony both minuend and subtrahend salmon peony the shadow of a murmuration deep peony ... www.thetemzreview.com/st-claire-36...

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Read Stan Rogal's wry poems in Issue 36! From "(un)natural acts": oftener & oftener groped your shoulder excuse my blood : forgive my brain I am dumpy, obtuse, old & out of it at night I feel my hands prowl over me ... www.thetemzreview.com/rogal-36.html

Photo of Stan Rogal, seated outside at a picnic table, drinking what appears to be a pint of beer, on a sunny day.

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Read Jessica Popeski's amazing poems in Issue 36! From "imagine": imagine a poem without a cliff face, weeds the only sign of life. no balcony to fling myself from, kersplat into porcelain snow, wind so violent i could fall in love... www.thetemzreview.com/popeski-36.h...

Photo of Jessica Popeski, seated on a wooden box that is painted white. She faces towards the viewer's left, but her face it turned back over her shoulder. The photo is against a photographer's dark blue backdrop

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Don't miss James Owens' moving poem "Parousia" in Issue 36! This dream of return. Push through A warm membrane into the room Where you slept as a child. The house at night. Soft bodies nest Snugly in cloaks of breath. Crimson wells hide in mirrors. ... www.thetemzreview.com/owens-36.html

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Read @poetloz.bsky.social's insightful poems in Issue 36! From "Funny How We Can Build Things That Last When We Want To": My Brown Dad would take vacation days at his job to cross picket lines at other hospitals when the scab pay was too good to pass up. ... www.thetemzreview.com/lozada-36.html

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Read Andrés López's fantastic poems in Issue 36! From "Ode to Andi at Philipps 66": ... Inconsiderate cause I was two-fold & twenty & the blabbering me was not the real me unless I was real tipsy & started spitting I love you’s I’m sorry’s ... www.thetemzreview.com/loacutepez-3...

Photo of Andrés López, standing inside a dimly-lit room, with snowy trees visible through the windows behind him

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Don't miss @hannankhanofficial.bsky.social's evocative poem "There Were More of Us Below" in Issue 36! ... I guzzled what they forgot: shadi songs, fever names the hush between a slap & absolution... www.thetemzreview.com/khan-36.html

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Read Foster Gareau's lyrical poem "Desquamation" in Issue 36! It wasn’t raining still the cloud pressed down like an old mattress— sloughed cells time-floes: ... www.thetemzreview.com/gareau-36.html

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Read Ryan Di Francesco's inventive poems in Issue 36! From "Sleeping": My eyes are full of pine needles. The windows crumble. My heart sags. ... www.thetemzreview.com/di-francesco...

Photo of Ryan Di Francesco, standing outside in a forest on a sunny day. He is looking off to the viewer's left.

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Read delilah Brae's wonderful "bobby go home"! Bobby had a nice flat in the good part of town When he thought i was a boy Bobby would lick it just not in front of our friends Bobby sold me a camera when he hurt his knee & i cooked him eggs barefoot in love... www.thetemzreview.com/brae-36.html

Photo of delilah Brae. It's deliberately askew, looking up at her face. She is standing in a room in front of a brown curtain

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Read Sharvaree Bhalerao's lovely poems in Issue 36! From "The reflection in the puddle is an old man with a phone": The crevices of my grandfather’s wrinkled hands always tasted like pomegranates and daal and rice, with a tinge of garlic and spice... www.thetemzreview.com/bhalerao-36....

Photo of Sharvaree Bhalerao, standing at sunset in front of a river with 2 suspension bridges over it. She is looking back over her shoulder at the camera

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Don't miss Eain Arinze's mournful, lyrical poem "our first time, our last time" in Issue 36! and i’m not saying that what she did was right but im saying that it takes a village but she didn’t have a village so she made one from her two hands ... www.thetemzreview.com/arinze-36.html

A very dark photo, looking across the Thames River in London, Ontario, at night in early fall. Lights glow across the water

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

These are both incredibly thoughtful, in-depth reviews:

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ISSUE 36 IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!! www.thetemzreview.com/issue-thirty...

A photo taken from a bridge across the Thames River in London, Ontario on an early fall night. The camera looks straight down the bridge, which has a wooden floor and metal frame, towards the lit-up buildings of London's downtown

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Read Josh Quirion's review of @zakjones.ca's novel Fancy Gap (pub. @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social) in Issue 35! ...This story is old school. It’s more rotary phone than cellphone, more freight train than Tesla. It’s heavy and wet and compulsive... www.thetemzreview.com/quirion-jone...

The cover of Fancy Gap, by Zak Jones. It is a photo of what seems to be a large fire in the middle of green mountains. The title and author's name are in large yellow block letters

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Read Raphaela Pavlakos' review of Chief R. Stacey Laforme's Beneath the Surface: Poems and Their Stories (pub. @durvile-shyba.bsky.social) in Issue 35! ...The deeply personal nature of each poem and story is one of this book’s greatest strengths... www.thetemzreview.com/pavlakos-laf...

The cover of Chief R. Stacey Laforme's book Beneath The Surface: Poems and Their Stories. It's a photo of him standing outside in front of a green lawn with green bushes in the background

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Read Raksha Muthukumar's review of Arundhati Roy's Mother Mary Comes to Me (pub. Simon & Schuster) in Issue 35! ...Her memoir highlights the parallels between the complicated and oftentimes thankless love we can hold for home, and for homeland... www.thetemzreview.com/muthukumar-r...

The cover of Arundhati Roy's Mother Mary Comes to Me. It's a light cream, with a black-and-white photo of a woman smoking in the bottom left corner

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Read @mmeindl.bsky.social's review of @fmolavi.bsky.social's collection Stories from Tehran (pub. Asemana) in Issue 35! ...The stories are a tapestry of sensory images, infused with desire, longing, rage and joy... www.thetemzreview.com/meindl-molav...

The cover of Fereshteh Molavi's Stories from Tehran. The left side is black, and the right side is a dark maroon. There is a stylized drawing of a large tree with buildings visible in the background that crosses over both sides

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Read @madeprojects.bsky.social's review of @paulvermeersch.bsky.social's NMLCT (pub. @ecwpress.bsky.social) in Issue 35! ...In the collection, as in the universe, existence is nothing if not ouroboric... www.thetemzreview.com/made-vermeer...

The cover of NMLCT, by Paul Vermeersch. The title and author's name are presented vertically along the left side. The background is white. There is a sculpture of a space-age jackrabbit holding its white helmet and wearing a white spacesuit

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Read Kathryn MacDonald's review of @dani-netherclift.bsky.social's Vessel: The Shape of Absent Bodies (pub. Assembly) in Issue 35! We’re told that the elegiac and lyrical narrative is rooted in the 1993 drowning deaths of Netherclift’s brother and father... www.thetemzreview.com/macdonald-ne...

The cover of Dani Netherclift's Vessel: The Shape of Absent Bodies. There is a stylized depiction of ocean waves in black and white; above them, there is a green-and-white background that looks like fabric or wallpaper. The title and author's name are in a gold circle in the middle

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Read Anson Leung's review of Q-Boy's Plaything (pub. Webtoon) in Issue 35! ...Its main selling point is its revenge-based story. This is not about justice. This is about cathartic revenge... www.thetemzreview.com/leung-q-boy-...

The cover of Q-Boy's Plaything. The background is red. In the centre, there is a manga-style drawing of a girl with two black crows on her shoulders. Her knuckles are stained with blood, and she's holding a studded collar while also wearing one

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Read Gitura Kihuria's review of Oyinkan Braithwaite's novel My Sister, the Serial Killer (pub. @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social) in Issue 35! ...Fast-paced, darkly humorous, and utterly captivating, the book will keep you hooked to the final page... www.thetemzreview.com/kihuria-brai...

The cover of Oyinkan Braithwaite's My Sister, the Serial Killer. The background is black. There is a woman wearing reflective sunglasses and a headscarf. The title and author's name are in acid green

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Read Salma Hussain's review of Sima Qadeer's Brown Girls, Grown Up (pub. @nupress.bsky.social) in Issue 35! ...In the end, it is this underlying, pulsating message of self-love in Sima Qadeer’s debut ... that is the most taboo and radical of all. www.thetemzreview.com/hussain-qade...

The cover of Brown Girls, Grown Up, by Sima Qadeer. It's an abstract image in orangey-reds, pinks and purples. One large circle sits on top of another

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Read @amandaearl.bsky.social's review of Stephanie Bolster's Long Exposure (pub. @palimpsestpress.bsky.social) in Issue 35! Braiding disasters into one long poem, Stephanie Bolster offers the tender and the terrible details in Long Exposure... www.thetemzreview.com/earl-bolster...

The cover of Long Exposure, by Stephanie Bolster. It's a photo of the inside of a room in an abandoned house. Pink paint is peeling off the walls, the floor is black, and the door and flowered curtain are moldy

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Read @amandaearl.bsky.social's review of André Babyn's novel Evie of the Deepthorn (pub. @dundurnpress.bsky.social) in Issue 35! ...What I get most of all from this novel is that struggle of how to overcome the inevitable. I have this too... www.thetemzreview.com/earl-babyn-3...

The cover of André Babyn's novel Evie of the Deepthorn. It is very dark, with stylized outlines of bare trees. The title and author's name are broken up across several white rectangles of text

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Read Josie Di Sciascio-Andrews' review of Russell Thornton's collection Two Songs: Selected Poems 2000-2025 (pub. @harbourpublishing.bsky.social) in Issue 35! To transmute dross into gold is the power of an alchemist... www.thetemzreview.com/di-sciascio-...

The cover of Russell Thornton's Two Songs: Selected Poems 2000-2025. It's a dark purple-blue abstract painting, with a bright orange octopus visible towards the bottom right corner

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Read Micaela Cárcamo's review of Joanna Cockerline's novel Still (pub. Porcupine's Quill) in Issue 35! ...The world Cockerline shares is one filled with hope and resilience, as well as despair and injustice... www.thetemzreview.com/caacutercamo...

The cover of Joanna Cockerline's Still. The top two-thirds is a pale orange with some random lines of black paint and a black-and-blue outline-drawing of a flower on its stalk. The bottom one-third shows a very dark night sky, with some aurora

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