CAROUSEL Recommends: More books from 2022 to check out!
To our infinite dismay, we at USEREVIEW cannot possibly review all of the wonderful books that come out in any given year — but we can do our best to give a little extra attention to books written by our much-appreciated former, current and forthcoming CAROUSEL contributors!
As 2022 ends, join us as we look back on some of the amazing books published by CAROUSEL contributors this year …
#USEREVIEWEDNESDAY
CHAPBOOKS
- Deirdre Danklin‘s How to Start a Coven (Variant Literature)
- Despy Boutris‘ Burials (Bull City Press)
- Gary Barwin & Elee Kraljii Gardiner‘s Watcher (Timglaset)
- Joshua Chris Bouchard & Fawn Parker‘s ABRACADABRA (Collusion Books)
- Kevin Stebner‘s LAY—OUT No. 5 (Seen Studio) and Two Sides (NonPlusUltra)
- Mark Truscott‘s Rain (KFB Pamphlet Series)
- Micah Lexier‘s Book Bag Drawings (Nieve Books)
- [sarah] Cavar‘s bugbutter (Gap Riot Press)
NOVELS & NOVELLAS
- A.G. Pasquella‘s Welcome to the Weird America (Wolsak & Wynn)
- Deirdre Danklin‘s Catastrophe (Texas Review Press)
- Erica McKeen‘s Tear (Invisible Publishing), a Globe and Mail Best Book of 2022
- Fawn Parker‘s What We Both Know (McClelland & Stewart), longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize
- Trynne Delaney‘s The Half-Drowned (Metatron Press), winner of the 2022 Quebec Writers Federation First Book Prize, and A House Unsettled (Annick Press)
POETRY COLLECTIONS
- Annick MacAskill‘s Shadow Blight (Gaspereau Press), winner of the 2022 Governor General’s Literary Award for English-language poetry
- Conyer Clayton‘s But the sun, and the ships, and the fish, and the waves (Anvil Press)
- derek beaulieu‘s Surface Tension (Coach House Books)
- Gary Barwin & Gregory Betts‘ The Fabulous Op (Beir Bua Press)
- Gary Barwin & Tom Prime‘s Bird Arsonist (New Star Books)
- John Sibley Williams‘ The Drowning House (Elixir Press)
- Kate Hargreaves‘ tend (Book*hug Press)
- Manahil Bandukwala‘s Monument (Brick Books)
- Melanie Power‘s Full Moon of Afraid and Craving (McGill-Queen’s University Press)
- Sophie Crocker‘s brat (Gordon Hill Press)
SHORT PROSE COLLECTIONS
- Karl Jirgens‘ The Razor’s Edge (The Porcupine’s Quill)
- Khashayar Mohammadi‘s WJD (Gordon Hill Press)
… PLUS A FEW BOOKS WE’RE LOOKING FORWARD TO IN 2023!
- Anne Baldo‘s Morse Code for Romantics (The Porcupine’s Quill)
- Hollay Ghadery‘s Rebellion Box (Radiant Press)
- Jen Currin‘s Trinity Street (House of Anansi Press)
- Jessica Johns‘ Bad Cree (HarperCollins Publishers)
- John Nyman‘s A Devil Every Day (Palimpsest Press)
- Renee Agatep‘s Ohio Radio (Wolfson Press)
- Rocco de Giacomo‘s Casting Out (Guernica Editions)