ITTY BITTY REVIEWS: Issue #6
With reviews of books by Jack Daniel Christie, A. Daniyal, and Kit Roffey
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There’s Always More to Say by Natalie Southworth
With her debut collection There’s Always More to Say, Natalie Southworth demonstrates that she not only understands the skills necessary to write powerful short stories, she has no shortage of them.
Breathing is How Some People Stay Alive by Alison Gadsby
Gadsby has become a diviner of sorts, and her stories a clarion call.
Stan On Guard: A Two-Part Invention by K.R. Wilson
Stan on Guard: A Two-Part Invention by K.R. Wilson is the anticipated sequel to the Leacock nominated Call Me Stan: A Tragedy in Three Millennia.
The Nature of Poetry: An Interview with Ian LeTourneau
Metadata from a Changing Climate considers themes of nature, change, and connection.
Journey Through Dreamscape: An Interview with Sean Howard
Sean Howard’s new collection, Overlays (Gaspereau Press, 2025) collects “fresh poems from the deep wells of two related texts—John Thompson’s influential poetry collection Stilt Jack (1978) and Peter Sanger’s Sea Run (Gaspereau Press, 2023), a critical commentary on Thompson’s [work].”
ITTY BITTY REVIEWS: Issue #4
With Reviews of books by Rebecca Salazar, Jake Byrne, and Margo LaPierre.
ITTY BITTY REVIEWS: Issue #3
With reviews of books by Jordan Williamson, Victoria Mbabazi, and Manahil Bandukwala & Conyer Clayton
The Beauty and the Hell of It & Other Stories by Lynda Williams
Life is wonderful and challenging, complicated and hard. That much you might easily take away from the title of Lynda Williams’s debut short story collection, The Beauty and the Hell of It.
we astronauts by Pearl Pirie
More observational than confessional, Pirie writes not from the margins, but from the centre of her own life. This is a radical act—to narrate one’s interiority and place it before the world without apology.
ITTY BITTY REVIEWS: Issue #2
With Reviews of books by Annick MacAskill, Elena Bentley, and Joshua Chris Bouchard
Birdology by Carolyne Van Der Meer
Birdology, Carolyne Van Der Meer’s most recent chapbook, offers an unflinching meditation on mortality and how our relationships with our parents evolve as we age, become more vulnerable, and eventually leave one another. This beautifully sequenced collection of tender poems and slender essays moves through what the author calls a “spell of grief,” accompanied by …
ITTY BITTY REVIEWS: Issue #1
Welcome to the first iteration of Michael Russell’s new column: Itty Bitty Reviews
The Jerome Ramcharitar Interview: The Riddle of Three Crimson Doors
Jerome Ramcharitar’s debut poetry collection The Riddle of Three Crimson Door (Cactus Press, 2025) is about language’s role in our consciousness, with meditations on dreams, animals, and the grotesque.
