Book Review: Farhang, Book 1 by Patrick Woodcock Published by ECW In Farhang, Book 1, Patrick Woodcock, a seasoned Canadian poet and world wanderer, offers a profound and evocative collection of poetry that chronicles his three decades of living, volunteering, and teaching in some of the world’s most remote and complex regions. From Kurdistan to the hamlet ofContinue reading “Farhang, Book 1 by Patrick Woodcock. A Review by Ava Homa”
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Winter’s Reward of Words. A Review of Books by Gordon Phinn
Books Referenced: Dirty Money, Financial Crime in Canada, Christian Leuprecht & Jamie Ferrill, (McGill/Queens 2023)The Scent of Flowers at Night, Leila Slimani (Coronet, 2023)Stray Dogs, Rawi Hage (Knopf Canada 2023)The Syrian Ladies Benevolent Society, Christine Estima (Anansi 2023)Imagining Imagining, Gary Barwin (Wolsak & Wynn 2023)We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I, Raja ShehadehContinue reading “Winter’s Reward of Words. A Review of Books by Gordon Phinn”
A Review of Diana Manole’s Praying to a Landed-Immigrant God. By Adriana Oniță
“Stubbornly I keep writing poems in Romanian”: Review of Diana Manole’s New Dual-Language Collection Diana Manole immigrated to Canada in 2000, but she never stopped writing in her mother tongue. After twenty-three years in the country, her seventh poetry book, Praying to a Landed-Immigrant God / Rugându-mă la un Dumnezeu emigrant (2023), found a homeContinue reading “A Review of Diana Manole’s Praying to a Landed-Immigrant God. By Adriana Oniță”
From Africa with Love. A review by Dr Geraldine Sinyuy
From Africa with Love: Voices from a Creative Continent curated and edited by Kelly Kaur in conjunction with Wole Adedoyin, Director, IHRAF African Secretariat. A Publication of the International Human Rights Arts Festival (IHRAF), 2023. From Africa with Love: Voices from a Creative Continent is a collective call for revival, a revolution churned through allContinue reading “From Africa with Love. A review by Dr Geraldine Sinyuy”
Sushant Thapa Reviews Binod Dawadi and Sydnie Beaupre’s The Power of Words
Critical Beauty of Words: The Power of Words I am thrilled to have read “The Power of Words,” a poetry collection written by Binod Dawadi from Nepal and Sydnie Beaupre from Canada who doubles as editor. This collaboration of two poetic souls has created indelible marks on the sands of modern literature. But it canContinue reading “Sushant Thapa Reviews Binod Dawadi and Sydnie Beaupre’s The Power of Words”
Essay on Mikhail Iossel’s Love Like Water, Love Like Fire. by Olga Stein
Mikhail Iossel’s Love Like Water, Love Like Fire: The Soviet Jew in Full Colour Mikhail Iossel’s collection of memoir and lyrical pieces, Love Like Water, Love Like Fire, bears witness to a particular kind of experience — that of living and identifying as a Jew in the Soviet Union (now former Soviet Union) during theContinue reading “Essay on Mikhail Iossel’s Love Like Water, Love Like Fire. by Olga Stein”
Literary Spotlight. Gail Anderson Dargatz in conversation with Sue Burge
For this issue I am delighted to meet Canadian writer Gail Anderson-Dargatz. I’m not sure if there is a genre she hasn’t written in! Gail, you are an extremely successful and experienced writer, working across most genres: poetry, short stories, novels and YA fiction. Within these genres you tackle everything from thrillers to historical dramas,Continue reading “Literary Spotlight. Gail Anderson Dargatz in conversation with Sue Burge”
Sweating and Reading. an essay of books by Gordon Phinn
Books Referenced: Into the Soul of the World, Brad Wetzler (Hachette Books 2023)The Man Who Hacked the World, Alex Cody Foster (Turner Publishing 2022)Still Pictures, Janet Malcolm (Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2023)Ghosts of the Orphanage, Christine Keneally (Public Affairs 2023)We Were Once a Family, Roxanna Asgarian (Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2023)Just Once, No More, CharlesContinue reading “Sweating and Reading. an essay of books by Gordon Phinn”
Lori D. Roadhouse reviews Debra Black’s “love, lust, existence and other ephemeral things”
I read these poems first in order, then backwards, and also randomly. Each poem exists on its own merit, as a breath in time. The breaths come faster, or more slowly, depending on the subject matter, and depending on the order in which they are read. It’s almost a meditation, a rocking chair, representing theContinue reading “Lori D. Roadhouse reviews Debra Black’s “love, lust, existence and other ephemeral things””
From Spagin (Lecce, Italy). a review by Marcello Buttazzo. translated from the Italian by Bruce Hunter
From Spagin (Lecce, Italy) by Marcello Buttazzo. Translated from the Italian by Bruce Hunter. Bruce Hunter is a great Canadian poet and writer. In 2022 his book A Life in Poetry (based on his Two O’clock Creek- poems new and selected) was published in Italy. Bruce was deafened as a child and suffered from lowContinue reading “From Spagin (Lecce, Italy). a review by Marcello Buttazzo. translated from the Italian by Bruce Hunter”
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