Reviews

Fiction Review   The Rest is Silence by Scott Fotheringham Fredericton, NB: Goose Lane, 2012 322pp, $29.95   Many people fantasize about withdrawing from modern society by escaping back to nature, away from the chaos of industry...

Fiction and Poetry Reviews   Beyond Sangre Grande: Caribbean Writing Today by Cyril Dabydeen, edited, Toronto, ON:  Tsar, 2011 226 pp. $28:95   In the introduction to this anthology of Caribbean writers, editor Cyril Dabydeen...

Poetry Review: Fifty Shades of Evil   Doom: Love Poems for Supervillains by Natalie Zina Walschots London, ON: Insomniac, 2012 112pp. $12.24   The first thing you need to know about Natalie Zina Walschots’ Doom: Love Poems f...

Poetry, Biography, Film and Illustration Reviews Apologetic for Joy By Hiemstra-van der Horst Fredericton, NB: Goose Lane, 2011 118 pp. $18 Occupations By Chris Jennings Gibsons, BC: Nightwood, 2012 96 pp. $19 Apologetic for Joy is the work...

Fiction Review Adrift by Loren Edizel Toronto, ON: TSAR, 2011 189 pp. $20:95 Coincidences abound in Loren Edizel’s Adrift , a novel ostensibly about an old brown suitcase.  The suitcase accompanies John on his journey of escape to the c...

General Interest Review   Bad MommyBy Willow YamauchiLondon, ON: Insomniac Press, 2012304 pp. $15   For anyone who is their mother’s child, Yamauchi’s Bad Mommy , sheds light on why we should call our mothers more often. In forty cha...

Fiction Review   The Old Blue Couch and Other Stories by Seymour Mayne Toronto ON: Ronald P. Frye, 2012 119pp. $15   Reading Seymour Mayne’s collection of short stories, The Old Blue Couch , brought forth images of discarded a...

Fiction Review   The Lebanese Dishwasher by Sonia Saikaley Toronto, ON: Quattro, 2012 120pp. $14.95   Sonia Saikaley’s novella takes us between continents and time frames to portray the experience of a young Lebanese man coming t...