Coach House Books, 2007
Read by Maria Giuliani
If the name Marvin sounds like it could belong to a geeky, nerdy little boy, you can safely assume that a town called Marvin would be a geeky, nerdy little town. It is in this small Albertan town that The Milk Chicken Bomb exists.
Cormorant Books, 2007
Read by Kelly Ward
Eve is nineteen, but has yet to experience much outside her sheltered family home in Dorval. She knows she’s different from the typical suburban kids she’s surrounded with; she doesn’t see herself reflected in the straight, white edges of cookie-cutter homes and shopping malls. So when she makes the move to downtown Montreal, to a “homo haven” with roommates Rachel (a poet and grad student) and Seven (a deliciously gorgeous drug dealer), it is as if her world has cracked open to reveal a new plane of existence simmering just beneath the surface of the one she previously inhabited. (more…)
Talonbooks, 2006
Read by Jakub Stachurski
I haven’t the right to comment on Vermeer’s Light, a compendium of George Bowering’s work of the past twelve years. How does one critique a man who, having published over forty works in verse and prose, remains an imaginative force, his trademark humour and painful honesty intact, his present generosity with said work rarely seen in any art form. (more…)
Matrix 77
Between by Laurie Petrou
Everything is Movies by Nicholas Lea
Yesno by Dennis Lee
The Hero Book by Scott Waters
Types of Canadian Women, Volume II by K.I. Press
E.C. Segar’s Popeye &
Moomin, The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip.
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Pedlar Press, 2006
Read by Kris Rothstein
Many of the twelve stories in Between are snapshots — glimpses that provide a static picture but don’t really develop. They are precise and accurate but somehow empty. (more…)
House of Anansi Press, 2007
Read by Darren Bifford
Dennis Lee’s new book is, I suspect, untranslatable. Even competency in what goes these days as Standard Poetic English may not be sufficient for comprehension of the maneuvers and stylistic risks Lee takes with enviable gusto. (more…)
Chaudiere Books, 2007
Read by Jesse Ferguson
Everything is Movies is a rollicking and elastic first collection, and it announces Lea as a voice to listen for. (more…)
Cumulus Press, 2006
Read by Lateef Martin
Take your everyday Canadian white dude in his twenties. Mix in a BFA in arts out of Kelowna, BC, a taste of design training at Ontario’s Sheridan College and a splash of York University’s MFA program. Throw in a little resentment at the design world. (more…)
Gaspereau Press, 2006
Read by T. K. Murphy
In Types of Canadian Women, Volume II, K.I. Press presents us with a poetic continuation of Henry J. Morgan’s biographical dictionary, Types of Canadian Women, Volume I (originally published in 1903). Reading Press’s work, one wonders about Morgan, what kind of person he was, and why he wrote a catalogue of Canadian women. (more…)
Read by Joe Ollmann
There are watersheds touted by critics in every genre: in old movies, in great literature, in classic television series. Some of these actually live up to their hype. (more…)