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  • Irene Marques

    Irene Marques

     

    Fiction Reviews

    A Samurai’s Pink House,
    by Sonia Saikaley
    Toronto: Innana Publications, 2017
    120 pp

    The Samurai is often associated with honour, courage, aristocracy—and violence too. Being the military high men in feudal Japan, Samurais were bound to …

  • Vi Khi Nao

    Vi Khi Nao

    Poetry Review 

    Streets As Elsewhere
    by JL Jacobs 
    Norman, OK: Mongrel Empire Press, 2014
    $15. PP. 92

    The old copper pipes that heat the apartment are rattling as I read these quietly incisive and transient JL Jacobs’ words, fraying with …

  • Gerri Kimber

    Gerri Kimber

     

    Fiction Review 

    The Necessary Angel
    by C. K. Stead,
    London, UK: Allen & Unwin,2018
    220 pp. £15.99

     I happened to be present at the International Katherine Mansfield Society’s annual conference in 2014 at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, …