March 3  • 

Alex Trnka Reviews Two Novels for EVENT 54/2

Alex Trnka Reviews: Bronwyn Fischer, The Adult, Penguin Random House Canada, 2023Holly Pester, The Lodgers, Assembly Press,...

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March 3  • 

Rosalie Morris Reviews Two New Memoirs for EVENT 54/2

Rosalie Morris Reviews: Tree Abraham, elseship: an unrequited affair, Book*hug Press, 2025Rachel Phan, Restaurant Kid: A Memoir of Family...

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March 3  • 

Marguerite Pigeon Reviews New Poetry Collections for EVENT 54/2

Marguerite Pigeon Reviews: Matthew Gwathmey, Family Band, The Porcupine’s Quill, 2024Alice Burdick, Ox Lost, Snow Deep, Anvil Press,...

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March 3  • 

Kathryn MacDonald Reviews Three Books of Poetry for EVENT 54/2

Kathryn MacDonald Reviews: Jaspreet Singh, Dreams of the Epoch & the Rock, NeWest Press, 2024 Michael Trussler, 10:10, icehouse poetry...

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February 23  • 

“Never Trust Any Writer’s Explanations About Process or Anything Else”: An Interview With Tim Bowling

As a small boy, Tim Bowling liked to dream about one day publishing a collection of short stories. Fifty-five years later, his dream has come true!...

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January 26  • 

“Poetry Is the Potential Space Within the Walls of the Language House”: Cassie Williams Interviews Tolu Oloruntoba

Tolu Oloruntoba is a project management person and lapsed physician from Ibadan, Nigeria. He is the author of The Junta of Happenstance (Palimpsest...

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January 22  • 

Poetry: “Your Breasts are like Twin Fawns” by Dora Prieto

DORA PRIETO is a Vancouver-based poet and a 2025–27 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Her debut collection, Girl Tejido, is...

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January 12  • 

“We Will Encounter New Things, But We Will Be Able to Understand Them”: An Interview With Ben Ladouceur

Ben Ladouceur is an author living on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe Nation (Ottawa). His first book, Otter, was selected as a best...

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December 16  • 

“An Uncommon Eye”: Reflections on the Life and Work of Sandy Shreve

One of the first friends I made in the poetry world was Sandy Shreve. Despite our gap in age and experience, Sandy took in this wide-eyed...

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December 10  • 

Poetry: “Vaporwave” by Ellie Sawatzky

ELLIE SAWATZKY is the author of None of This Belongs to Me (Nightwood Editions, 2021). Her poems have appeared most recently in The...

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October 20  • 

Falling Sideways Through One-Way Gates: Elena Johnson Interviews Natalie Rice

NATALIE RICE is the author of Nightjar (Gaspereau Press, 2025) and Scorch (Gaspereau Press,2023). Her poems have appeared in journals such as...

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October 11  • 

Poetry: “Steve and I travel to Calgary” by Christina Shah

CHRISTINA SHAH lives in Vancouver and works in heavy industry. Her work was short-listed for 2021’s Ralph Gustafson Prize and was selected...

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October 7  • 

Cara Waterfall Reviews Three Books of Poetry for EVENT 54/1

Cara Waterfall Reviews: Derek Webster, National Animal, Véhicule Press, 2024Ben Robinson, As Is, ARP Books, 2024Holly Flauto, Permission...

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September 30  • 

Adam McPhee Reviews New Fiction Books for EVENT 54/1

Adam McPhee Reviews: Wayne Ng, Johnny Delivers, Guernica Editions, 2024 David Spaner, Keefer Street, Ronsdale Press, 2024 It’s 1977 in...

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September 18  • 

Steven Maye Reviews New Essay Collections for EVENT 54/1

Steven Maye Reviews: Jim Johnstone, Bait & Switch: Essays, Reviews, Conversations, and Views on Canadian Poetry, The Porcupine’s Quill,...

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September 18  • 

Sanchari Sur Reviews Two Non-Fiction Books for EVENT 54/1

Sanchari Sur Reviews: Mariam Pirbhai, Garden Inventories: Reflections on Land, Place and Belonging, Wolsak & Wynn, 2023Sadiya Ansari, In...

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