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Sarah Burgoyne, The Tentaculum Sonnets

Sarah Burgoyne has a propensity to show off like this in every stanza of every page she works on, and it’s scary, talented and exhilarating to read.

Cover of Sarah Burgoyne's The Tentaculum Sonnets, published 2020 by above/ground press
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Moez Surani, The Death of Volodya Putin

Every line enumerated with a note, a reference, seems to be as confident, if not more so, than the last. But it is a purloined confidence, from the headline writers and lede buriers, a farce ad nauseum.

Cover of The Death of Volodya Putin by Moez Surani
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Hugh Thomas, Jangle Straw

This brief collection of mistranslations could only happen in Montreal. It has something of the city in it, I can’t quite put my finger on it.

Cover of Hugh Thomas's Jangle Straw, a chapbook of mistranslations of poems by Olav H. Hauge. Turret House Press, 2023.
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Pearl Pirie, A Couple Sumerians

These poems are domestic, full of love, adoration, and humanity, yet brief, soft, and lightning-sharp, with a recurring motif of eye contact. Intimate.

Cover art of Pearl Pirie's poetry chapbook A Couple Sumerians
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John Metcalf, What Is A Canadian Literature?

What Is A Canadian Literature? is a thought-provoking work bearing a perspicacity utterly alien to the nimbyist pricks lording over CanLit.

A worn cover of a second-hand copy of What Is A Canadian Literature? by John Metcalf
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Sarah Moses, Strange Water

If you’re a reader that delights in texts that surprise, then Moses’s Strange Water is a book you’ll want to read.

Cover of Strange Water, Fictions by Sarah Moses
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Manahil Bandukwala, Heliotropia

I am confident when I say it is genuinely so exciting to read and listen to everything Manahil Bandukwala creates.

Cover of Manahil Bandukwala's poetry book, Heliotropia (2024)
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Brian Dedora, The Apple in The Orchard

Brave, astonishing and unique: now that is exactly how I would describe Brian Dedora’s work.

Cover of Brian Dedora's experimental novel, The Apple in The Orchard (2024)