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To pick up a new volume of poetry from Gaspereau Press is always a gift, because not only does the author write with such care inside the pages, the paper and type were selected with a similar level of care and dedication. I work with university students, and there’s an increasing desire from them to …
Featuring Chelsea Humphries, Jenny Berkel, Edie Reaney Chunn, and Jordan Redekop-Jones Chelsea Humphries, author of Flower Language Flower Language emerged, in part, from my fascination with the Victorian age and my love of secret codes and hidden meanings. Floriography is the language of flowers, popularized by the Victorians in the nineteenth century. It ascribes significance …
Barwin’s latest novel follows a stand-up comic who has become Death, tasked with escorting the souls of the departed to the afterlife. He is also a husband to Betty and father to Grigory. The balancing act between the job and family, between life and death, provides the dramatic torque of the novel.
At first glance, such a label is similarly not inaccurate. Riverwork follows Lucy Snow, a woman in her 60s who follows in the physical and intellectual footsteps of her aunt Emily, who had lived in Paris and attended the Sorbonne to complete her Master’s but ended up dropping out.
What struck me at the end of reading the collection of short stories that every single one was true.
Thinking From Black is an animated collection that illuminates, interrogates, and grabs hold of what Blackness means from as many angles as humanity, history, and artistry allow. Initiated by the Practicing Refusal Collective, whose members span the US, Europe, the Caribbean, Canada, and Africa, this fierce book is as much about creativity as it is about the political realities and ethical practices of being Black at a time when anti-Black violence is resurging in terrifying ways. A reference book, a glossary, and an inventive vocabulary that …
From the very first lines of “to be,” the opening section Kaie Kellough’s Interposition, we find ourselves descending into a nightmare, moving steadily towards a stultifying existence characterized not by connection but by the spaces between us. That sense of being caught between worlds (that word “between” again) allows an overwhelming feeling of bifurcation to …
The title of Jaclyn Desforges’s new book of short fiction, Weird Babies, is absolutely appropriate. These stories are about childhood and motherhood, and they are strange. Strange and delightful, that is: the characters and their experiences are situated to one side of what we might consider normal, ranging from speculative fiction to something close to …
Featuring Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Jo-Ann Roberts, Jacqueline Halsey, and Marjorie Simmins
You hear it often enough: the past clings and refuses to let go. Or how it echoes into the present with the crippling fear of repetition. It’s almost like condemnation, scorn and a warning all wrapped in one. Too much reminiscing about the past leaves you blind to the present, but forgetting leaves you susceptible …
It is the story of two sisters, Dolly, age 72, and Bernadette, age 60, who spent 14 days hitchhiking across Newfoundland.
The story examines what it means to us to share the same blood with someone, or not, what it means to take it from someone, how we can long to give it to someone, how women are taxed of it their whole lives.
With a MFA from the University of King College, being a multi-award winning Black Canadian writer and poet, she uses her remarkable skills in lyricism and thoughtful analysis to understand what it means to be in this constant state of movement.
Written by Robert Macfarlane with illustrations by Jackie Morris, The Book of Birds is the spiritual successor to their project The Lost Words.
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