A Serious Call is a quiet, beautifully rendered story of our relationships to objects, books, and the people around them. Don Coles’s sixteenth book, A Serious Call, is, among... Read More

This thought-provoking “wordless poem” of black-and-white images evokes enlightenment, heightened consciousness balanced by fear. Never More Together, a visual and wordless... Read More

The tropes that appear in Birney’s poetry are both quietly political and overtly sincere, experimental and traditionally sound. The poems in The Essential Earle Birney... Read More

This book reads like memory itself, a mixture of obviously key moments and seemingly innocuous ones that take on meaning later. With Every Minute is a Suicide, Bruce McDougall... Read More

Heer has a knack for making anything interesting, which might be the best praise a writer can garner. Jeet Heer displays the leisurely wit and wisdom of a polymath, writing... Read More

With smartly arranged variety, this is a worthy introduction to Wilkinson’s work. The Essential Anne Wilkinson is an elegant volume featuring Ingrid Ruthig’s selections of... Read More

Beautiful engravings capture the long life of a music legend. The Wordless Leonard Cohen Songbook, by Toronto-based artist George A. Walker, delivers exactly what the title... Read More

Bitter Lake is an accomplished work on silence: what happens when families ignore a tragic moment. A melancholic debut by Marika Deliyannides, Bitter Lake explores one woman’s... Read More

The raw honesty and power of sixteenth century poet shines through in Zwicky’s translations. Jan Zwicky presents her translations of ten sonnets from Vittoria Colonna’s Rime... Read More

The Seasons, with careful descriptions of natural details, ably reminds us that enchantment can be found in ordinary hours. Bruce Meyer, poet laureate of the city of Barrie,... Read More

Deftly organized for maximum enjoyment and insight, this memoir brings to life important times in Jewish Canadian history. Bob Bossin’s memoir about his father, Davy the Punk,... Read More

Amid the chaos of drugs and jazz, Lewis finds insight into the way we recall the past. “How hard to write about this, to sort out the memories. To make decisions about how... Read More