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‘Conrad Kain the Canadian’Earle Birney: Conrad Kain by Ron Dart“The sheer momentum, graphic rock slab images and tragic ...
05/25/2026

‘Conrad Kain the Canadian’

Earle Birney: Conrad Kain
by Ron Dart

“The sheer momentum, graphic rock slab images and tragic tension packed into the epic poem make it the definitive classic of mountain culture in Canada.”

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2026/04/14/2892-dart-birney/

Autofiction and autofactGrowing My Way Home: Stories of Resilience and Care (Talonbooks, 2026) by Jenn Ashton.“The twent...
05/25/2026

Autofiction and autofact

Growing My Way Home: Stories of Resilience and Care (Talonbooks, 2026) by Jenn Ashton.

“The twenty stories are based mainly on Ashton’s years as a teenage runaway and young mother. They move quickly through some adult events and then end with Ashton now, in her early sixties.”

Reviewed by Candace Fertile.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2026/04/14/2891-fertile-ashton/

Out of the fireToronto, September 1967by Ken Klonsky“I drove to Toronto in the five-year-old blue Plymouth I used at UVM...
05/25/2026

Out of the fire

Toronto, September 1967
by Ken Klonsky

“I drove to Toronto in the five-year-old blue Plymouth I used at UVM, its body cancered by Vermont’s salted roads. While it was liberating to be leaving my riven country, I was plenty nervous about the unknowns that lay ahead.”

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2026/04/12/2890-klonsky-out-of-the-fire/

‘Surviving like it was nothing’Real Grownup (Nightwood Editions, 2026) by Elizabeth Bachinsky.“Bachinsky’s new book of p...
05/24/2026

‘Surviving like it was nothing’

Real Grownup (Nightwood Editions, 2026) by Elizabeth Bachinsky.

“Bachinsky’s new book of poetry is shot through with tenderness not only for the befuddlement of middle age but for the foolishness of youth.”

Reviewed by Carellin Brooks.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2026/04/12/2889-bachinsky-brooks/

‘All that she is and is not’Break My Heart, Liverpool (Great Hall Press, 2025) by Pamela McGarry.“The slim book’s openin...
05/24/2026

‘All that she is and is not’

Break My Heart, Liverpool (Great Hall Press, 2025) by Pamela McGarry.

“The slim book’s opening paragraph telegraphs plenty: physical attraction, a romance, a marriage, and a funeral.”

Reviewed by Brett Josef Grubisic.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2026/04/11/2888-grubisic-mcgarry/

Wild Antarctica: science, healing, conservationWhere The Earth Meets The Sky: A Story of Penguins, People and Place in A...
05/24/2026

Wild Antarctica: science, healing, conservation

Where The Earth Meets The Sky: A Story of Penguins, People and Place in Antarctica (Doubleday Canada, 2026) by Louise K. Blight.

“She reflects in hindsight on the Antarctic summer that brought her to Cape Royds to study Adélie penguins with David Ainley, after the untimely death of her sister and father.”

Reviewed by Loÿs Maingon.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2026/04/10/2887-maingon-blight/

ZeitgeistsSuper Castle Fun Park (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2026) by Daniel Zomparelli.“In the context of Super Castle Fun Park...
05/24/2026

Zeitgeists

Super Castle Fun Park (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2026) by Daniel Zomparelli.

“In the context of Super Castle Fun Park, debut novelist Daniel Zomparelli offers readers a world where ghosts (be them literal or metaphorical) are omnipresent features in the lives of the novel’s ensemble cast.”

Reviewed by Logan Macnair.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2026/04/09/2886-macnair-zomparelli/

Long live the SixtiesThe Long Sixties: Stories from the New Left (Fernwood Publishing, 2026) by Jim Harding [ed.].“Readi...
05/23/2026

Long live the Sixties

The Long Sixties: Stories from the New Left (Fernwood Publishing, 2026) by Jim Harding [ed.].

“Reading these passionate memories of the fight for social justice and the quest to replace capitalism suggests to me that the seeds of what we need to fuel fire-in-belly activism today, almost 60 years after the 1960s, can be found partly in these pages.”

Reviewed by Ron Verzuh.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2026/04/09/2885-verzuh-harding-et-al/

‘The Chinatown of her childhood’Chinatown Vancouver: An Illustrated History (House of Anansi Press, 2025) by Donna Seto....
05/23/2026

‘The Chinatown of her childhood’

Chinatown Vancouver: An Illustrated History (House of Anansi Press, 2025) by Donna Seto.

“Like many who had shelved their artistic selves in real time, Covid gave back her dreamer, her creator; and what she found was the key to understanding herself as a continuum, the daughter of a family that crossed an ocean to guarantee freedom of expression and domestic comfort to its young.”

Reviewed by Linda Rogers.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2026/04/07/2884-rogers-seto/

Through the eyes of young civiliansRust and Bone (ECW Press, 2026) by Dietrich Kalteis.“Taking place in 1945 during the ...
05/23/2026

Through the eyes of young civilians

Rust and Bone (ECW Press, 2026) by Dietrich Kalteis.

“Taking place in 1945 during the freezing-cold final months of World War Two, the novel Rust and Bone follows the daily struggles of two innocent victims of war, Jakob Fritsch and Frida Beckmann.”

Reviewed by Bill Paul.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2026/04/07/2883-kalteis-paul/

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