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USEREVIEW 009: Classified & Personal
As readers and writers, we are often in a continual process of losing and finding the words we seek. In this experimental review, Emily Woodworth brings this metaphor ...
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USEREVIEW 008: Reverse Juggling
In six stanzas as flat-topped and flavour-concentrated as the fruit from which Lily Wang’s Saturn Peach (Gordon Hill Press, 2020) takes its name, Erica McKeen juggles, tosses and ...
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USEREVIEW 007: Do You Want to Dream Without Falling Asleep?
Bodies are ever-shifting in Lily Wang’s Saturn Peach (Gordon Hill Press, 2020). At times they assume forms sweet as peaches, at others they take shapes treacherous as caves. ...
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USEREVIEW 006: Talking to Stones
Jade Wallace imagines what it would be like to interview Tanis Franco’s poetry debut Quarry (University of Calgary Press 2019) in this experimental review. Asking questions in their ...
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USEREVIEW 005: Writers as Psychics
Books are prophetic in Deirdre Danklin‘s fiction-form experimental review set in a psychic convention, but the books’ predictions reveal more about themselves than they do about their customer ...
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USEREVIEW 004: Living Violence
John Nyman follows the mine shafts of Klara du Plessis‘ book of poetry Hell Light Flesh (Palimpsest Press, Sep 2020) and reports back on the glistening subterranean horrors ...
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USEREVIEW 003: Creation, Derivation, Exchange
Though he has crafted what feels like a slick trailer, Mark Laliberte‘s animated experimental review of Dani Spinosa‘s OO: Typewriter Poems (Invisible Publishing, 2020) ultimately performs not only ...
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USEREVIEW 002: Impossible Language for the Unnavigable Self
Khashayar Mohammadi gives us a review in the form of a poem — adding a new harmony to the polyvocal chorus of Canisia Lubrin‘s exploratory, book-length poem The ...
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USEREVIEW 001: Quaking, It’s Morning
K.B. Thors revels in the historic breadth and folkloric depth of Factory Girls (Action Books, Nov 2019), which is the third book of poetry by the award-winning Japanese ...
