“Break open a notebook at any point and be reminded of your own reality,” claims the narrator of Maria Stepanova’s In Memory of Memory. She continues: “[B]ecause a notebook is a series of proofs that life has continuity and …

“In the hallway that leads to the drop-in area of our clinic, there is an overdose memorial wall filled with names and photos,” Dr. Brodie Ramin notes. He’s a medical practitioner in Ottawa that got his start in Toronto, helping …

In a stressful and dangerous time, Mark Laba makes sense of our world through visuals that penetrate right into our imagination. “Maybe you don’t see these things/ the same way as me” he declares in the first poem of his …

Life tragedies can often be found on the smallest level, especially when the suffering of a child influences parents, family friends, and even doctors involved. Bertrand Laverdure’s evanescent novel, The Neptune Room, asks why the ripples of pain disappear …

Malcolm Tariq conceives a political uprising in a lyrical form, as every poem in Heed the Hollow is imbued with a cultural charge that races through the body. This current culminates in a thought inducing and worldview shattering change in …