Circle Tour is a like a reflection in lake water; something so beautiful that you wish you could hold on to it, mercurial as it may be. On these pages Eva Tihanyi offers a bounteous continuation of the language and imagery of the Romantics; and hers is a potent lyrical poetry. At the same time,Continue reading “Eva Tihanyi’s Circle Tour. a review by Anne Sorbie”
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Everyone Talking. a review of books by Gordon Phinn
Everyone Talking Books Referenced:If Not for You & Other Stories, Niles Reddick (Big Table Publishing 2023)Moon of the Crusted Snow, Waubgeshig Rice (ECW 2018)Who by Fire, Matti Friedman (Penguin Random House 2022)Inspiring Canadians, Mark Bulgutch (Douglas & MacIntyre 2022)A Book of Days, Patti Smith (Knopf Canada, 2022)Common Tones, Alan Licht, ed. (Blank Forms Editions 2021)ThisContinue reading “Everyone Talking. a review of books by Gordon Phinn”
Claudia Serea’s Self-Ironic Surrealism in Immigrant Sociopolitical Poetry. a review by Diana Manole
Self-Ironic Surrealism in Immigrant Sociopolitical Poetry Claudia Serea, Writing on the Walls at Night (Unsolicited Press, 2022) History is what we take in, Mom says, the small bites of thepresent. Eat up, dear. It’s all on the table in front of you. (31) Claudia Serea’s excellent new collection of poetry, Writing on the Walls atContinue reading “Claudia Serea’s Self-Ironic Surrealism in Immigrant Sociopolitical Poetry. a review by Diana Manole”
Love Letters to Water. excerpts from an anthology by Claudiu Murgan
A note from the editor: Claudiu Morgan “Love Letter to Water” anthology has been a personal challenge that started in 2019 while taking part in the ‘Word of The Street’ book fair in Toronto. I noticed children playing a game, Love Letters to Your City. An interesting idea, I thought, and filled itContinue reading “Love Letters to Water. excerpts from an anthology by Claudiu Murgan”
Green Horses on the Walls by Cristina A. Bejan. a review by Clara Burghelea
Green Horses on the Walls by Cristina A. Bejan. Finishing Line Press, May 27, 2020. 46 pp Cristina A. Bejan’s debut collection, Green Horses on the Walls (Finishing Line Press, 2020), is a 2021 Independent Press Book Award Winner and the 2021 Colorado Authors’ League Book Award for cover design which is also the author’sContinue reading “Green Horses on the Walls by Cristina A. Bejan. a review by Clara Burghelea”
Coasting Through Winter. a review of books by Gordon Phinn
Coasting Through Winter Works Referenced: This Is Assisted Dying, Stephanie Green (Scribner 2022)The Philosophy of Modern Song, Bob Dylan (Simon & Schuster 2022)Gangsters of Capitalism, Jonathan M. Katz (St. Martin’s Press 2021)They Knew, Sarah Kendzior (Flatiron Books 2022)Untold Stories: How The Light Gets In, Michael Posner (Simon & Schuster 2022)The Animals, Cary Fagan (Book*Hug 2022)AContinue reading “Coasting Through Winter. a review of books by Gordon Phinn”
WordCity Literary Journal. November 2022.
©®| All rights to the content of this journal remain with WordCity Literary Journal and its contributing artists. Table of Contents Letter from the Editor. WordCity’s non-fiction editor, Olga Stein Our War on War War isn’t a place anyone would want to visit. Even this statement borders on the inane and insensitive, given the scaleContinue reading “WordCity Literary Journal. November 2022.”
Book Basking in Autumn. a review of books by Gordon Phinn
Book Basking in Autumn Books Referenced: Dirtbag, Massachusetts, Isaac Fitzgerald (Bloomsbury 2022)All Of This, Rebecca Woolf (Harper One 2022)Elizabeth Finch, Julian Barnes (Random House 2022)The Razor’s Edge, Karl Jirgens (The Porcupine’s Quill 2022)A Minor Chorus, Billy-Ray Belcourt (Hamish Hamilton 2022)We Are Still Here, Nahid Shahalimi, ed. (Penguin 2021)Until Further Notice, Amy Kaler (U. ofContinue reading “Book Basking in Autumn. a review of books by Gordon Phinn”
Churchill At Munich. 3 Whistler Independent Books Awards reviews by Darcie Friesen Hossack
From the WIBA Website: Established in 2016 to recognize excellence in Canadian self-publishing, the Whistler Independent Book Awards offers prizes in three categories: fiction, non-fiction and children’s books (new for 2022). There are three finalists in each category, with the winners being announced at the annual Whistler Writers Festival. The Whistler Independent Book Awards areContinue reading “Churchill At Munich. 3 Whistler Independent Books Awards reviews by Darcie Friesen Hossack”
WordCity Literary Journal. September 2022.
©®| All rights to the content of this journal remain with WordCity Literary Journal and its contributing artists. Table of Contents Letter from the Editor. Non-fiction Editor Olga Stein Where We are Now Putting together an issue that is critical of the new anti-abortion laws in the USA has been wrenching for us at WordCity.Continue reading “WordCity Literary Journal. September 2022.”
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