Sunsetter by Curtis LeBlanc
Sunsetter is one of those books that enters the mind and leaves the reader with a strong sense of “Yes, this is truly what life is like.”
Month: April 2023
Mukbang by Fanie Demeule, Translated by Anita Anand
Mukbang is a grimy, shocking, and darkly funny dive into our relationships with food, self-image, and intimacy.
The Ewe Who Knew Who Knit You by Cara Kansala
This magically illustrated story celebrates the power of friendship and kindness and teaches us to be proud of the things that make us unique.
Kâ–pî–isi—kiskisiYân / ᑳ ᐲ ᐃᓯ ᑭᐢᑭᓯᔮᐣ The Way I Remember by Solomon Ratt
kâ-pî-isi-kiskisiyân /The Way I Remember is an important and unique memoir that emphasizes and celebrates Solomon Ratt’s perseverance and life after residential school.
The Double Life of Benson Yu by Kevin Chong
This fresh and unique work of metafiction follows Benson Yu, a writer, who loses control of his own narrative when he attempts to write the story of his fraught upbringing in 1980s Chinatown.
Excerpt: Ain’t Nothin’ But a Stranger in This World by Bruce Sudds
As a study of the human condition, Sudds’ raw and powerful narrative bursts with the forces that spur, haunt, and are ultimately meant to save humankind.
Love Is A Place But You Cannot Live There by Jade Wallace
Love Is A Place But You Cannot Live There is a wonderful series of narratives in verse. Each section portrays a story told through poems, united by the common themes of people’s relationships to geography and to each other.
Battered Luggage: Celebrating Jack Kerouac, Ronda Wicks Eller, ed.
Canadian Beat Poets & Friends Celebrating Kerouac’s 100th Anniversary.
If I didn’t Love the River: Poems by Robert Priest
In this virtuoso display of sonnets, free verse, prose poems, villanelles, ghazals, and aphorisms, People’s Poet Robert Priest makes it clear why the Pacific Rim Review has called him “surely the most imaginatively inventive poet in the country.”
Casting Out by Rocco de Giacomo
The 63 works detail the falling into, and out of, an uber-religious existence, as the author shares how his devotion has merely shifted to other deities: to his wife and daughters, to evidence and reason.
Duck Eats Yeast, Quacks, Explodes; Man Loses Eye A Poem by Gary Barwin & Lillian Nećakov
Written as a vibrant discussion between Barwin and Necakov, this book-length poem takes us on a hypnagogic journey that examines many ways of seeing and experiencing the world.
Gibby: Tales of a Baseball Lifer by John Gibbons and Greg Oliver
A captivating and candid memoir from one of the most beloved and colorful figures in Toronto Blue Jays history.
