Writings / Essay: Miklos Legrady
Adorno, Deleuze and Guattari: The Gods that Failed This past year repeated complaints of
boring art exhibitions have appeared in print and that should raise an alarm. Can we suggest
these complaints ...
Writings / Essay: Mykyta Isagulov
Art, Mirrors and the Divine The prominent writer, teacher and religion philosopher Neville
Goddard (1905-72) started his 1969 essay, “The Artist is God” with the following phrase: “God
is the great artis...
Writings / Reviews: George Elliott Clarke
Poetry and other Reviews The Sea with No One in It by Niki Koulouris Erin, ON: Porcupine’s
Quill, 2013 64 pp, $15 Mirror Image by Len Gasparini Toronto, ON: Guernica Editions, 2014 78
p...
Writings / Reviews: Michael Melgaard
Fiction Review Sanaaq: An Inuit Novel
by Mitiarju Nappaaluk Winnipeg: U of Manitoba P, 2014
Toward the end of Sanaaq: An Inuit Novel
the author, speaking through the eponymous main
character bas...
Writings / Reviews: Candace Fertile
Poetry and Fiction Reviews Washita: New Poems by Patrick Lane Toronto: Harbour Publishing,
2014 80 pp. $18.95 In his latest collection, Patrick Lane explores familiar territory through
the...
Writings / Reviews: Janet Nicol
Essay and Fiction Review Notes and Dispatches: Essays by rob mclennan, London, ON: Insomniac,
2014 317pp, $19.95 paperback This collection of literary essays from prolific Ottawa-based...
Writings / Reviews: Angela Walcott
Poetry Review Correspondences by Anne Michaels (Author), Bernice Eisenstein (Illustrator)
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2013 128pp. $35 “Not two to make one, but two to make the
third just a...
Writings / Reviews: H. Nigel Thomas
Fiction and Poetry Reviews Red Jacket by Pamela Mordecai, Toronto: TAP Books, 2015 462 pp.
$24.99 Red Jacket is Pamela Mordecai’s second book-length foray into adult prose fiction. Both
books w...
Writings / Fiction: Catherine A. MacKenzie
Oliver’s Story “I killed a woman once, many years ago.” Oliver struggled with himself,
rehashing scenes over and over. Did he really want to have sex with that woman? She wasn't
particularly attra...
Writings / Fiction: John Tavares
Native Son Carlos had not expected Hakan would provide so many reasons to be concerned, but he
did not know the native boy well before adoption. Enola, a social worker, helped him with the
legal issues...
Writings / Fiction: Mariam Pirbhai
Outside People “Tracy jumping Meena bed, Tracy breaking Meena head!” the new one we call
Cat-Face shout. She call Cat-Face because she eyes green like real-life cat. Miss Benedict say
there is cat...
Writings / Fiction: Philip Bowne
Candles in the Sky I was crying. I walked along the waterside and watched the water slop
against the concrete shore of Lake Lucerne. Mount Pilatus towered over the city from the
distance, collecting...
Writings / Creative Non-Fiction: Leigh-Ann Worrell
Cradled Desires Last night I dreamt of Isabelle. Creamy caramel brown, locks of loose coils
framed her face. She was Tuesday’s child: full of grace. She was lithe and long-limbed.
Fingers were thin a...
Writings / Poetry: Amatoritsero Ede
Mother and Child (for Odia Ofeimun) I a foetus nestles in its watery hammock tiny thumb
plugged into dreaming mouth sleep-suckled gently a curious midwife hand plumbs the
throbbing...
Writings / Poetry: Luca Xifona
Maltese Memory The snowy boiling of Maltese froth— The rippling rain, all night, whipping
street dirt Into sewers—sets me imagining Water-transparent clothes, you, naked. How I like to
see you...
Writings / Poetry: Rebekha Carlsen
Inside the Diming A shiver passed along the ridgeline, Beside hope and possibility. All that
was longed for in fortitude – A semblance of a dream returned. The salted canyon wall A
statement solely f...