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What the Soul Doesn’t Want by Lorna Crozier

May 17, 2018

Reading Lorna Crozier’s poetry is always a surprise and a delight, and the poet does not disappoint with her latest collection, What the Soul Doesn’t Want. 

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You Are Not Needed Now by Annette Lapointe

May 7, 2018

Witches and teeth, hippies and cleaning ladies, pregnancy and ghosts, tattoos and sex in a Saskatoon bus station bathroom

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In the Cage by Kevin Hardcastle

Apr 26, 2018

Kevin Hardcastle’s book In the Cage is not for the faint-hearted. Hardcastle takes readers into a part of society where poverty hovers and taunts at the shoulder.

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Bridge Retakes by Angela Lopes

Apr 6, 2018

Re-reading A Lover’s Discourse in 2017, it’s hard not to consider how Roland Barthes’ impatient Proustian temperament in love might stand to update. Surely Barthes would be hitting ‘refresh’ incessantly,

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3 Summers by Lisa Robertson

Mar 28, 2018

In her latest poetry collection, 3 Summers, Lisa Robertson manages something exciting: she captures the visceral quality of embodiment—and its corollaries like desire and materiality

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Frequent, Small Loads of Laundry by Rhonda Ganz

Mar 13, 2018

Rhonda Ganz’s day-by-day structure for Frequent, Small Loads of Laundry makes the reader think Wednesday’s child is full of woe. She is, but much more beside.

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