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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 …
