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Elizabeth Tavella
Poetry Review
Teardrops on the Weser
by Amatoritsero Ede
Winnipeg, MN: Griots Lounge, 2021
64 pp. $20.99With Teardrops on the Weser, Amatoritsero Ede guides his readers on a transformative journey across landscapes and memories bringing to the surface … Read the whole text
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Giovanna Riccio
Fiction Review
The Artist and the Assassin
by Mark Frutkin
Erin, ON: Porcupine’s Quill, 2021
213 pp. $19.95The Wordsmith and the Half-Fallen Angel
In The Artist and the Assassin, Mark Frutkin has penned a page turner of lyrical imagination … Read the whole text
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Mark Frutkin
Poetry Review
J’Accuse . . . ! (Poem Versus Silence)
by George Elliott Clarke,
Exile Editions,
198 pages, $26.95Some poetry whispers. Some poetry shouts. This collection of poetry shouts out loud, with great creative skill. And it shouts for … Read the whole text
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A. F. Moritz
Poetry Review
Canticles II (MMXIX)
by George Elliott Clarke
Guernica Editions,
2019. 505 pp.
ISBN 978-1-77183-409-4
In a 2022 text, George Elliott Clarke calls his Canticles series “an expected six-volume epic…that begins with the survey of two … Read the whole text -

Melanie Schnell
Heart Calculation Finalem
The first day she walked into his class a phrase echoed in his mind so loudly that he wondered, terrified, if he’d said it aloud: belle-laide. Beautiful-ugly. He didn’t know how he knew this phrase, … Read the whole text
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Ewa Mazierska
Lonely Wolves
When David was in the nursery, the ladies working there used to say that he was ‘no trouble,’ ‘well adjusted,’ and ‘rather quiet,’ which they presented as a good thing. In the first and second year of … Read the whole text
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Pamela Hensley
O Fortuna
On a muggy night in Montreal, three days before graduation, Hubert lay face up on his bed, on the quilt his grandmother made, next to the poems he’d written, imagining Lydia’s lips above his, her hot breath … Read the whole text
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Shalom Camenietzki
The GrandPuppy
“The Dandie Dinmont is a gorgeous-looking and very affectionate terrier,” Karen Lipschitz shared with Morris, her husband, her online research on mid-sized dogs. “Their enormous black eyes marvellously stand out against the background of their brownish coats. … Read the whole text
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Kate Kavelman
Lust for Life
Deep in the woods of Northern Maine, there is a cabin. It is small and made of dark wood. It has only the essential rooms: a bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, and two small living spaces. It has … Read the whole text
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Arabella Griffett
A Heart of Forgiveness
1890 – Texas
He would protect her, even if it would be the death of him. Everlee Davis was worth it, plus it wasn’t her fault that people were trying to kill her; … Read the whole text

