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Between by Laurie Petrou
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.
Yesno by Dennis Lee
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.
Everything is Movies by Nicholas Lea
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.
The Hero Book by Scott Waters
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.
Types of Canadian Women, Volume II by K.I. Press
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 [...]
E.C. Segar’s Popeye & Moomin, The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip
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.