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I think the prose poem is perfect for capturing a sense of place and character—the way flash fiction does—and immersing the reader in the narrative of the moment ...
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... Horror can be a form of queer language in that it calls into question how and why deviancy terrifies us ...
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Close-up photo looking directly down at the surface of the Thames River in London, Ontario in the summer. There are many bare branches sticking out of it, with bright green algae around them. The blue sky, fluffy white clouds, and the tops of green trees are reflected on the surface
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The cover of The Tigress, by Walter Serner. It's a cubist-style painting of a woman in dark grey tones
Read @nyurtsaba.bsky.social's review of Walter Serner's The Tigress (pub. @twistedspoon.bsky.social) in Issue 33!
... What Serner provides in these characters is a brief examination of how an individual changes, reveals, or keeps hidden their masks ...
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The cover of Lost Signal, by Chris Hutchinson. It's a blocky, abstract design, with tan dominating the foreground, and blue, yellow, and pale vertical lines in the background
Read Terry Trowbridge's review of Chris Hutchinson's Lost Signal (pub. @palimpsestpress.bsky.social)!
...[It] contains political poems that can be used to better understand major American political events of 2025 as experienced by working-class individuals...
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The cover of the book of sentences, by rob mclennan. It's a solid bright blue. Towards the bottom-right corner, there is a large photo of an orange, with one black ant visible on it
Read @lethejerome.bsky.social's review of @robmclennan.bsky.social's the book of sentences (pub. @ucalgarypress.bsky.social) in Issue 33!
The writing here is so incredibly intentional, each sentence uttered as a sentence – even the one-word sentence feels full
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The cover of The Exclusion Zone, by Alexis von Konigslow. The dominant color is a dark, rich blue. Along the bottom there is a blue-toned photo of a dark cityscape, with a lit-up location somewhat removed from it and along the horizon. The background of the cover is a subtle, black tracing of a map
Read @chalicotherex.bsky.social's review of Alexis von Konigslow's novel The Exclusion Zone (pub. @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social) in Issue 33!
[The novel] is about fear and isolated scientists, not so much science fiction as fiction about the work of science...
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The cover of Chandelier, by David O'Meara. It looks like a pastel drawing of stormy turquoise, black and white water
Read @buriedinprint.bsky.social's review of David O'Meara's novel Chandelier (pub. @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social) in Issue 33!
... The novel’s preoccupation is not with disconnection but connection ...
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The cover of The Pages of the Sea, by Anne Hawk. It's minimalist, with pale yellow and brown in the foreground representing a beach, and pale green along the horizon, representing the ocean. There is a black silhouette of a boat with steam curling out of it into the sky
Read @buriedinprint.bsky.social's review of Anne Hawk's The Pages of the Sea (pub. @biblioasis.bsky.social) in Issue 33!
This is not a debut which displays *only* promise: it secures all the elements of fine fiction to the page with compassion and conviction.
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The cover of The Character Actor Convention, by Guy Elston. The background color is a deep forest green, and the title is in bright white block letters, with the author's name below it in orange. Above the title and author's name is a minimalist depiction of 2 sides of the same face, one with an open eye and one with a closed one. The side on the viewer's left is raised and a reddish-orange; the side on the viewer's right is yellow
Read Kathryn MacDonald's review of Guy Elston's The Character Actor Convention (Porcupine's Quill Press) in Issue 33!
... The poems imagine; they reimagine; and they question. Elston’s voice is clear, clever, and has something to say ...
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The cover of What is Broken Binds Us, by Lorne Daniel. The title is in blue bars across the background photo, which is of a shattered white porcelain statue of a face that has been knit back together with gold
Read Kathryn MacDonald's review of @lornedaniel.bsky.social's What is Broken Binds Us (pub. U of Calgary P) in Issue 33!
Lorne Daniel is a mature poet who has honed the poetic craft. What is Broken Binds Us is a collection to read, to enter, to understand.
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A manga-style drawing of 4 girls standing close together, smiling and laughing
Read Anson Leung's review of Morangji's Odd Girl Out (pub. Webtoons) in Issue 33!
... The main strong point of this manhwa is in its emotional enthrallment ...
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The cover of Notes from the Ward, by Steffi Tad-y. The cover is horizontally-arranged, long blocks of red and green. Peeking out underneath in a few places is white paper with pen scribbles on it
Read @amandaearl.bsky.social's review of Steffi Tad-y's Notes from the Ward (pub. Gordon Hill Press) in Issue 33!
These minimalist poems are powerful expressions of vulnerability and intense articulations of dreams...
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The cover of An Orange, A Syllable by Gillian Sze. The cover is a photo of an open window. A long, sheer curtain covers the left half of it, and cream shutters are visible through the right half. Sunlight suffuses the photo
Read @amandaearl.bsky.social's review of Gillian Sze's An Orange, A Syllable (pub. @ecwpress.bsky.social) in Issue 33!
I feel an intimate connection between speaker and reader. Sze writes about language through the lenses of parenthood, relationships and art.
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The cover of Muttertongue, by Lillian Allen, Gary Barwin and Gregory Betts. The background is lighter and darker shades of cyan/turquoise. The title is in black, with dots separating most of the syllables. There are grey and green circles and typography floating around the cover. In the centre of the black title there is the following phrase in white: "what is a word in utter space"
Read @amandaearl.bsky.social's review of Muttertongue, by Lillian Allen, @garybarwin.bsky.social & @whatisapoem.bsky.social (pub. Exile), in Issue 33!
From the first glimpse of the book cover, it’s clear I’m in for a lot of play ...
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The cover of Widow Fantasies, by Hollay Ghadery. It is what looks like a bright pastel oil painting of a fair ride with swings that are raised and swung in a large circle
Read Sheri Doyle's review of @hollay.bsky.social's Widow Fantasies (pub. Gordon Hill Press) in Issue 33!
The slim but spirited collection, containing 33 stories, is infused with a full spectrum of emotions, from rage and revenge to fierce love and soft longing
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Headshot of Monia Mazigh, against a deliberately-blurred background of green grass and what might be green and yellow trees
Read Salma Hussain's engaging interview of Monia Mazigh (pub. @mawenzihouse.bsky.social) in Iss. 33!
Unfortunately, the economic system we live in doesn’t like motherhood. I think we remain a society that despises motherhood and continues to make it difficult
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Headshot of Susan Wadds, outside in front of a deliberately-blurred background of concrete and sun-lit green trees
The cover of What the Living Do, by Susan Wadds. It has a light purple background, with large abstract circles in darker purple, dark green, and cream. In the middle of the cover, there is a dog jumping upwards towards the viewer's right
Read @sharonberg.bsky.social's interview of @susanewadds.bsky.social re: her novel What the Living Do (pub. @regalhouse.bsky.social)!
... Although Brett’s story isn’t my story, much of her scrappy personality is what you might call my alter-ego ...
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Photo of Renée M. Sgroi sitting on a cream chair, with her head propped on her left hand; her left arm rests on the back of the chair. She is in front of a photographer's sand background
The cover of In a Tension of Leaves and Binding, by Renée M. Sgroi. It depicts what looks like a stack of green leaves that have been half cut out of paper in many different shades of green
Read @sharonberg.bsky.social's interview of Renée M. Sgroi re: her collection In a Tension of Leaves and Binding (pub. @guernicaeditions.bsky.social) in Issue 33!
We are connected to the world we live in, but it seems increasingly that we live as if we weren’t
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Photo of David Giuliano, standing outside in front of a deliberately-blurred background of bare winter bushes and trees
The cover of The Upending of Wendall Forbes, by David Giuliano. The text is in large red lettering, and the background is a light peach/cream. A black-and-white depiction of the back half of a cat, walking off the cover, is on the left side, and a similar black-and-white depiction of a bird flying off the cover is on the right
Read @sharonberg.bsky.social's interview of David Giuliano re: his novel The Upending of Wendall Forbes (pub. @latitude46pub.bsky.social) in Iss 33!
Silence can speak loudly. I sensed that Wendall’s silence, like a vacuum, would draw the reader to his dilemma.
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Headshot of Alice Fitzpatrick, against a photographer's grey and brown backdrop
The cover of A Dark Death, by Alice Fitzpatrick. It's a minimalist depiction of the sun setting over dark hills along the horizon, dark water in the middle, and dark land and flowers in the foreground. The sky has large gray clouds in it
Read @sharonberg.bsky.social's interview of @alicefitzp.bsky.social re: her novel A Dark Death (pub. Stonehouse) in Iss 33!
.. Now that I’m older, I often reflect on my past decisions, and how different my life has turned out from how I imagined it would be ..
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Black-and-white headshot of Aaron Schneider, against a white brick wall
Read Aaron Schneider's thoughtful longform critique of Anne Michaels' Held in Issue 33!
... It is possible to make the case the Michaels is the quintessential neoliberal novelist ...
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