Issue 20

Fiction and Nonfiction Reviews

White Schooldays:  Coming-of-Age In Apartheid South Africa
by Isme Bennie.
South Carolina, USA: CreateSpace, 2014
166 pp, $26.00

White Schooldays, portions of which were previously published in Maple Tree Literary Supplement, is Isme Bennie’s …

Fiction Review

Madder Carmine
by Tyler Enfield
Winnipeg, MB: Enfield & Wizenty, 2015
274 pp, $14.95

Madder Carmine is the girl who haunts Dannon Lereaux’s dreams. Upon his return from the war in 1849, a chance encounter with this enigmatic …

Poetry Reviews

Short Talks
by Anne Carson
London, ON: Brick Books, 2015
75 pp, $20

Riffs
by Dennis Lee
London, ON: Brick Books, 2015
105 pp, $20

It would be difficult to imagine two poets whose lives and work share …

Fiction Reviews

No Safeguards
by H. Nigel Thomas
Toronto, ON: Guernica Editions, 2015
298 pp. $25

After overhearing Ma Kirton fighting with her daughter early on in No Safeguards (H. Nigel Thomas, Guernica Editions), a neighbour comes over and advises, …

Fiction Review

Chinkstar
by Jon Chan Simpson
Toronto, ON: Coach House, 2015
202pp, $19.95 paperback

What does it mean to reclaim something? How does one break away from stereotypes when doing such reclamation? Can we imagine a world with an …

Fiction, Poetry and Art Reviews

And Sometimes They Fly
by Robert Edison Sandiford
Montreal, QC: DC Books, 2013
$19. PP. 186

Robert Edison Sandiford is a rare Canadian writer, for he writes in self-chosen exile, as an expatriate journalist in …