Originally written for hobby blog on 23 March 2018 One of my close friends often accuses me of liking “boring” things. I enjoy playing walking sims, watching documentaries, and reading poetry in my downtime. When I, in an offhand fashion, mentioned that I had been “poetry-ed out” after having read several poetry books in a …
Memoir: Chris Hadfield’s An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth Read More »
Originally published on hobby blog on 15 June 2018 For transparency: I have met David at various poetry events in London in the past Peninsula Sinking is a collection of short stories that look at small pieces of a diverse cast of characters’ lives. “Enigma,” the first story of the collection, won the 2016 CBC Short Story …
Originally published on hobby blog on 18 May 2018 Spoilers be ahead When you are known as a bookworm in the family, you can generally expect well-meaning family members to buy you books, even if they don’t know what books you actually like. As was the case when my aunt when she went out east …
Prose: Richard G. Eagles Sr.’s Terror in the Highlands Read More »
Originally written for hobby blog on 9 March 2018 lullabies for little criminals was one of many books I had to read for a Canadian lit class that was focusing heavily on trauma, trials, and tribulations. This course, along with my Canadian Drama course, went a long way towards me believing that us Canadian writers are …
Prose: Heather O’Neill’s lullabies for little criminals Read More »
Prose, poetry, and experimental writing are not simply genres or writing, but feel like entirely different mediums and constructs. While you may go about writing a space opera differently from a harlequin romance, just as you use different aspects of poetry depending on if you’re writing lyrical poetry or spoken word, they all hold the …
Hopping Genres: My Personal Experiences Writing Prose, Poetry, and Experimental Writing Read More »
Originally written for hobby blog on 6 April 2018 I first read Lynn Coady’s Strange Heaven for a special topics English literature class. The focus was on women in literature, specifically, pregnancy in literature. We read works from the early modern era such as Spenser’s Faerie Queen all the way up to modern Canada like today’s book. It was …
Originally written for hobby blog on 25 May 2018 While Brick Books generally publishes poetry, I’m not entirely sure this collection qualifies as poetry, even prose poetry. The line between prose and poetry can be incredibly thin, and I personally think this is more a collection of micro-fictions than poetry, as the diction lacks the …
Originally written for hobby blog 6 July 2018 Don’t read the sixth paragraph if you don’t want spoilers There feels like there is a lot less to talk when it comes to this movie versus the movie adaptation of Into the Wild. Perhaps it’s because there is more focus on Mia Wasikowska as Robyn Davidson’s isolation from …
Memoir vs. Movie: Robyn Davidson’s Tracks vs. John Curran’s Tracks Read More »
Originally written for hobby blog 8 June 2018 As is made evident on this blog, I have an interest in hiking. As such, I’ve been drawn to the experiences of other solo hikers, especially in what drives them to go on these journeys and how they tackle (or don’t tackle) the trials they inevitably face. …