With "Beasts of New York", the world’s most immortalized city acquires yet another fascinating identity. On the surface of this adventure story is a landscape populated by... Read More

It takes hubris to reinterpret artist John Tenniel’s original vision of Alice’s journey. Enter the so-called “Mad Hatter of Canadian Graphic Arts,” engraver George... Read More

“It is a human weakness, remembering,” says the narrator of “Stitches in Air,” one of twelve tales in David Helwig’s collection, all of which revolve around the issue... Read More

The idea that all art is a reflection of reality is true for many reasons. After all, even the most reactionary art bears the dim but discernable negative imprint of the very... Read More

Poetic form is always engaged in a delicate dance with expectation, as the poet seeks an adequate balance between rightness and surprise. Sticking too closely to time-worn steps... Read More

Canadian physician and writer Shane Neilson immerses readers in the human struggles and surprising joys of being what some term “a healer” in his latest poetry collection,... Read More

Understated and poignant, David Carpenter’s Welcome to Canada: Stories collects a number of flawed and beautiful characters who illuminate the fragility of human nature. The... Read More

In Joyce Wieland: Writings and Drawings, editor Jane Lind curates a collection of journals and sketches, granting readers a multi-dimensional look at the life of Canadian artist... Read More

"Slant Room", poet Michael Eden Reynolds’ first collection, contains dense, compressed lines of poetry which move contemplatively through the Yukon landscape. Beautifully... Read More

Kenneth Leslie (1892-1974) was a Canadian poet and political activist whose poetry deserves to be rediscovered for its mastery of form, meter, and language. His first four, of a... Read More

The title of James Reaney’s (1926-2008) book-length poem cycle, "A Suit of Nettles", may ring a bell. Some may recall its acclaimed first publication in 1958; others will have... Read More

To the question, “What makes a poet’s language distinctive?” Avison once ad-libbed, “Not just affection for words, which is common to all good writers; not necessarily a... Read More