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Zine Review: Swan Dive
Chapbook, Michael Prior, Frog Hollow Press, froghollowpress.com, $20 On a literal level, the term “swan dive” describes a graceful maneuver, but its plummeting connotations also make it a suitable...
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Poetry zine, rob mclennan (editor), issue 1, above/ground press,touchthedonkey.blogspot.ca, $6 A minor naming misadventure happened here. Series curator rob mclennan mentioned in an essay on the Open...
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Book Review: Man Alive
Thomas Page McBee, 172 pgs, City Lights, citylights.com, $15.95 In April 2010, Thomas Page McBee and his then-girlfriend, now-wife Parker were held up at gunpoint near their Oakland, CA...
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Book Review: Vancouver Confidential
John Belshaw, ed., 240 pgs, Anvil Press, anvilpress.ca, $20 For some, it may be hard to imagine Canada having a seedy past. Turn-of-the-century urban woes like racial tensions, violent picket lines,...
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Book Review: An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments
Ali Almossawi, 64 pgs, The Experiment, theexperimentpublishing.com, $14.95 In this digital age we live in, it’s surprisingly easy to get dragged into an endless debate or argument online. With...
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Book Review: Asylum Squad: Monster Hospital 2
Sarafin, 113 pgs, Mad Pride, asylumsquad.com, $15 Based on the author’s own experiences in an in-patient mental institution, this second graphic novel collects the Asylum Squad’s continued adventures...
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Book Review: Confetti
Ginette Lapalme, 203 pgs, Koyama Press, koyamapress.com, $20 Not only is Ginette Lapalme an active member of the Toronto craft scene, but she also boasts a strong presence online, with both a popular...
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Book Review: Mighty Star and the Castle of Cancatervater
Alex Degen, 174 pgs,Koyama Press,koyamapress.com, $15 Koyama Press has a habit of taking risks with artists, but even then it is hard to imagine how a neo-baroque-meets-Dragonball Z superhero comic...
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Dark, Angry and Political: Toronto’s Factory Theatre gets a makeover
Photo of The Unplugging, featuring actors Allegra Fulton and Diana Belshaw, by Akipari by Carissa Ainslie The Factory Theatre has seen some changes lately. The 45-year-old Toronto-based venue has...
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Uncreative writers, cultural appropriation, and pain
Underlying the work of the “conceptual” or “uncreative writer” — those writers working with found, automated, or tightly constrained text, for example — is a presumed desire to disengage with texts, to...
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