When I heard Harbour Publishing were releasing a posthumous book by Patrick Lane, I knew it would be a must-read collection. Lane became one of the finest writers of his generation or any other by writing poetry at once easily accessible and breathtakingly lyrical.
Trailer Park Shakes By Justene Dion-Glowa | Review by Tara McGowan-Ross
Trailer Park Shakes is a lot of things, and in being a lot of things contains a lot of things to like. Itâs working-class writing, in the classical, economic-theory sense: this is not the writing of a suburban expatriate who just learned the word âkyriarchyâ in their MFA. This is not even the explicitly Marxist poetry of writers like Joe Wallace, Avery Lake, or Brendan Joyceâit expresses, in fact, the violent ways capitalism robs the most economically vulnerable of the material requirements for organizing (From âThe Slow Creeping Feeling that Everything Will Not be Okayâ: ârebellion quelled by the almighty dollar / Iâm too busy / I gotta go to work / I got a family to feedâ).
Time Out of Time by Arleen ParĂŠ | Review by Jami Macarty
A Review of Time out of Time by Arlene ParĂŠ
A Conversation With Frankie Barnet | Interview by Rosie Long Decter
Frankie Barnet is a Montreal-based writer. Her debut graphic novel, Kim: A Novel Idea, is an auto-fictional blend of real-world pain and celebrity fantasy that tells the story of a grad student trying to make sense of an online world and her own stubborn sadness. Protagonist Frankie spends her days scrolling Kardashian Instagrams, reading about sexual violence on social media, trying to help her boyfriend process the loss of his father, and talking to her vicious but infinitely wise cat Catman.
Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry, ed. Amanda Earl | An Essay by rob mclennan
It would be hard not to be amazed by Ottawa poet, editor, critic and publisher Amanda Earlâs incredibly expansive, inclusive and long-awaited anthology Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry (MalmĂś, Sweden: Timglaset Editions, 2021), a book funded, in part, through an impressive crowdfunding campaign earlier this spring.
I Wish I Could be Peter Falk by Paul Zits | Review by Bill Neumire
Invoking Willem Dafoe, Neil Armstrong, Ryan Gosling, Shia Labouf, Nicolas Cage, and Peter Falk while also tapping into American Psycho, GQ, Vanity Fair, and InstagramâPaul Zits, author of the previous collections Exhibit, Massacre Street, and Leap-Secondsâcreates an ironic speaker who marauds the earth searching only its âInstagrammabilityâ…
Garden Physic by Sylvia Legris | Review by Bill Neumire
Although Sylvia Legrisâs sixth book of poetry, Garden Physic, opens with a poem titled âPlants Reduced to the Idea of Plantsâ which are then further playfully reduced to âwoodcuts / (circa 16th century) reduced to Victorian floor tile,â this collection clearly accomplishes just the opposite: it elevates, celebrates, and even apotheosizes plants…
J’Accuse by George Elliott Clarke | Essay by Dennis Cooley
An essay by Dennis Cooley on “J’Accuse.”
Rosie Long Decter, THREADS OF A NETWORK: A CONVERSATION WITH MATTHEW JAMES WEIGEL
THREADS OF A NETWORK: A CONVERSATION WITH MATTHEW JAMES WEIGEL INTERVIEW BY ROSIE LONG DECTER This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Matthew James Weigel is an artist of many disciplines. His work includes poetry, visual art, and scholarly research, projects that he weaves together through explorations of colonial violence and acts of […]