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Candace Fertile
Fiction, Poetry and Essay Reviews
The Circle
by Katherena Vermette
Hamish Hamilton,
272 pages, $32.00
ISBN: 978-0-7352-3965-4It’s not necessary to read The Break (2016) and The Strangers (2021) before reading The Circle, Katherena Vermette’s luminous and heart-breaking … Read the whole text
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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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Lawrence Winkler
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Bronwyn Clare Lindsay
Scrambled Egg and Coffee
In a small, redbrick house on a narrow street between John and Union, there live Anne and Robin. They have lived at 25 Severn Avenue for about thirty years. Neither could tell you exactly how … Read the whole text
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John Tavares
The One Percenter
Toyko was tall, over six feet, but she was slender and athletic. Because of her pedigree and the fact that she was usually the tallest woman, or man, wherever she went, she believed much, too much, … 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 -
Lisa Lahey
Sorrow’s Bargain
Mama grabbed Petra by the arm, twisting it. I heard a crack and Petra screamed. She held her forearm and sobbed and sobbed. Petra had pulled on Mama’s apron too long, crying for food.
“Byc cicho Petra! … Read the whole text
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Jena Webb
The Witness Tree
The moment I credit with becoming a cynic happened on the day the city came to take down our treehouse without warning. Perhaps 13, I was alone in the house fretting over the tissue paper I … Read the whole text