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…)