Throwback: Excerpts from a Burned Letter by Joelle Barron
Within a faith tradition that sees only two genders, and from the purview of a small northern community, what can a young person know about themselves and their possibilities?
Poetry
Throwback: you by Chantal Neveu, translated by Erin Mouré
Whose love story is this? In English, `you’ is many-gendered, can denote singularity, plurality, a finger-pointed other, a reflective self.
The Time of Falling Apart by Wendy Donawa
As with movies that start gritty and move to hope or start sunlit and move to grim, this book has an arc starting quiet and small and becoming more vivid and joyful as it progresses, as if affirming to live every day.
Throwback: Everyday Light by John Reibetanz
What Reibetanz uncovers for readers and viewers, who should interpret the poems and the art in a dual fashion, is how the Dutch painters “specialize in what’s unseen” – how they “peel layers of misogynistic myth from [the] domestic scene.”
“Beauty in Filth, Rot in Divinity:” Stigmata by Scott Jackshaw
Their debut poetry collection, Stigmata, illustrates their prowess in queer theory, apophatic theology and poststructuralism that not only examines the tension between sexual deviancy and religion and how these two subject matters can have their own version of the profane,but also their thoughts and trying to make sense of their own being.
Throwback: Midway by Kayla Czaga
Midway is a highly accomplished piece of writing and an enduring testament to the story-making powers of love.
Include Everyone, Especially Yourself: The Chrome Chair by Danielle Devereaux
The title of Danielle Deveraux’s book The Chrome Chair comes from a quote the poet heard at the Newfoundland and Labrador Historical Society Symposium in 2003:
“We were promised a seat at the table of nations: what we got was a chrome chair” (5).
Throwback: Untamed: Lyrics and Erotics by Eva Kolacz
Eva Kolacz is no stranger to poetry where sensuality is freely and unashamedly expressed.
Ajar by Margo LaPierre
From the very first glance, the book captivates readers with its gorgeous, evocative cover, an image that feels like a visual invitation into the vivid and deeply intimate world within.
Throwback: The Weight of Survival by Tina Biello
[…]as we find our way through grief and loss, this book encourages us all to take heart.
Hag Dances by Susan Wismer
There’s a haiku quality to her observations, and symmetry of sound, with profound weight.
procession by katherena vermette
Having returned to the literary scene with her third poetry collection, procession, vermette welcomes readers into the intricacy of genealogy, of honouring one’s ancestors and future kin while navigating one’s identity—both spiritually and through art.
gallery of heartache by Michael Russell
Gallery of Heartache is also about trying to find healing, however that can look on any particular day, often ugly and unappealing, or messy, but still, trying to make sense.
Wellwater by Karen Solie
Wellwater continues Solie’s uncompromising path […] as themes are expanded and attitudes recur in patterns as precise as they are puzzling, enigmas to be entered.
Future Howl by Sue Goyette
Future Howl is everything we’re holding in: our personal trauma, nostalgia and recovery, bearing witness to global atrocity, and every wish for the good and decent.
