Reviews

 

Fiction, Poetry and Essay Reviews 

The Circle
by Katherena Vermette
Hamish Hamilton,
272 pages, $32.00
ISBN: 978-0-7352-3965-4

It’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

Poetry Review 

Teardrops on the Weser
by Amatoritsero Ede
Winnipeg, MN: Griots Lounge, 2021
64 pp. $20.99

With 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

Fiction Review

The Artist and the Assassin
by Mark Frutkin
Erin, ON: Porcupine’s Quill, 2021
213 pp. $19.95

The 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

Poetry Review 

J’Accuse . . . ! (Poem Versus Silence)
by George Elliott Clarke,
Exile Editions,
198 pages, $26.95

Some poetry whispers. Some poetry shouts. This collection of poetry shouts out loud, with great creative skill. And it shouts for … Read the whole text

 

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