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Mary J. Breen
The Cenotaph
In 2014, on the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I, Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red opened at the Tower of London. Flowing out of the thick Tower walls and filling the moat …
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Sule Emmanuel Egya
Revolution within the Poetic Revolution
Unlike most poets in Nigeria, Osundare did not publish a collection of poetry until he was through with his formal academic studies and had secured a place as a lecturer at the University of Ibadan. …
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Candace Fertile
Poetry Review
Gold
by George Elliott Clarke,
Kentville, NS: Gaspereau Press, 2016
160 pages, $21.95Blue (2001), Black (2006), and Red (2011), George Elliott Clarke’s previous “colouring books,” have now been joined by Gold. In his preface, Clarke says …
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Gerri Kimber
Fiction Review
The Shouting in the Dark
by Elleke Boehmer
Dingwall, Scotland: Sandstone Press, 2015
273pp, £8.99Set in the 1970s, when hardliner B. J. Vorster is Prime Minister of South Africa, Elleke Boehmer’s portrayal of a young girl growing …
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H. Nigel Thomas
Fiction Review
Fairfield: The LAST Sad Stories of G. Brandon Signet
by Robert Sandiford
DC Books, 2016
144pp, $18.95Fairfield: The Last Sad Stories of G. Brandon Sisnett is Robert Edson Sandiford’s third collection of short fiction. There are thirteen …
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Janet Nicol
Fiction Reviews
The Motorcyclist
by George Elliott Clarke.
Toronto, ON: HarperCollins, 2016
288 pp; $16.99George Elliott Clarke, an accomplished poet, playwright and essayist, turns his considerable talent to writing a novel offering a protagonist infrequently portrayed in Canadian literature. …
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Michael Melgaard
Fiction Reviews
The Hunter and the Wild Girl
by Pauline Holdstock
Fredericton, NB: Gooselane, 2015
333 pp, $32.95The Hunter and the Wild Girl has all the appearance of a fairy-tale. It is set in the French countryside in some …
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George Elliot Clarke
Poetry, Art and Essay Reviews
The Catch
by Fiona Sampson
London, UK: Random House, 2016
80pp, $10.15Fiona Sampson’s reputation is sunlight preceding her. The British poet has twice been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot and Forward Prizes. Her poetry …
