Featured Reviews: 2020 Poetry Titles
5 March 2021
Our 2020 poetry titles have received widespread praise. As we look ahead to Poetry Month in April and the launch of three more poetry collections, we celebrate Valerie Mason-John, Kat… READ MORE
Category: Reviews
Readers Rave about Tiny Lights for Travellers
5 February 2021
Naomi K. Lewis continues to win awards and earn five-star reviews for her book, Tiny Lights for Travellers. The book has won three awards—the Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction, the… READ MORE
Featured Reviews of “Rain Shadow”
30 March 2020
“[Rain Shadow] fits easily into my shelf of place-aware, place-engaged, self-examining literature from the North American West…. Bradley has a real knack for the potent ending. His final lines simultaneously… READ MORE
Featured Reviews of “Metis Pioneers”
10 February 2020
“[These two women’s] individual paths provide interesting parallel stories about Metis women who survived and thrived as the Canadian west transitioned from the fur trade to a more sedentary agricultural… READ MORE
Featured Reviews of “Power Play”
28 November 2019
“Power Play is easy to understand, with a clear message: cities set to negotiate with professional sports teams must be aware there is a carefully-crafted playbook designed to attract maximum… READ MORE
Featured Reviews of “Tiny Lights for Travellers”
30 October 2019
“Tiny Lights for Travellers starts with a zit, percolating brightly on the nose of our author while she takes the transatlantic flight that begins the book. In a strange, unlikely,… READ MORE
Featured Reviews of “Little Yellow House”
10 September 2019
“Halton clearly delights in interacting with people from all walks of life; her interest and empathy sparkle throughout. Her tone is factual, nonjudgmental, and often wryly funny. Little Yellow House is a… READ MORE
Featured Reviews of “The Larger Conversation”
28 June 2019
“This collection of essays is the third in a series of books in which Lilburn reflects on his own sense of rootlessness, often as a cultural phenomenon. The current book’s… READ MORE
Featured Reviews of “Searching for Mary Schäffer”
22 May 2019
“Skidmore’s monograph offers a robust introduction to Schäffer’s work and contributes to recent scholarship in American art that attends to work produced across the North American continent…. Overall, Skidmore delivers… READ MORE
Featured Reviews of “Welcome to the Anthropocene”
15 April 2019
“…(the book’s title [Welcome to the Anthropocene] is a reference to the current geologic age, the one in which human activity is the dominant influence on the Earth’s physical environment)…. READ MORE
