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James Dunnigan

James Dunnigan is a writer, scholar and editor from Montreal, the author of five poetry chapbooks. He was a finalist for the Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award, the Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Award, the QWF Quebec Writing Competition and a winner of the Frog Hollow Press Chapbook Award. He has published in journals in the US and Canada like P-QUEUE, The New Quarterly, The Fiddlehead, Event, CV2, Maisonneuve Magazine and Hamilton Arts & Letters. He is currently completing a PhD in English at the University of Toronto. Find his website at www.jamesdunnigan.net.

Fancy Gap by Zak Jones

February 18, 2026February 18, 2026 by James Dunnigan

This review contains spoilers. Read advisedly.

Devotional Forensics by Joseph Kidney

March 10, 2025 by James Dunnigan

A hallmark of Kidney’s already distinguished early career, Devotional Forensics shows exceptional range.

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Unwashed by Daniel Maluka

December 26, 2024August 21, 2024 by James Dunnigan

Unwashed gives us poetry where a green “2000 Chrysler Neon”, “Dragon Ball Z” and “grainy 240-pixel videos” have the same poetic value as “the kings of old Egypt”, the lives of Dr. King. and Malcolm X, or the hagiographies of Buddha and Krishna.

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Us from Nothing by Geoff Bouvier

April 26, 2024April 14, 2024 by James Dunnigan

Geoff Bouvier has produced a kind of long poem we haven’t seen for a long time in North America. Us from Nothing is an experiment in the epic that isn’t either doggerel or primarily parody.