Reviews
Book reviews, old and new
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.

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.

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.

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

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