Originally written for hobby blog on 27 July 2018 If my review of Nora Gould‘s work was any indication, there is a special place in my heart for regional poets. Like the Albertan plains, I have never visited the Lake of Two Mountains region, but by putting a name to a place and discussing not only its …
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 …
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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 on 20 April 2018 Spoilers be ahead I was initially excited about this film with the opening scene with characters Alex (Jeff Roop) and Jenn (Missy Peregrym) driving down the highway because I actually recognized the landscape passing by. Upon a quick google search I found that the movie is …
Originally written for hobby blog on 4 May, 2018 Departures is perhaps one of my favoutite TV shows and I’ve watched and re-watched it several times. It follows the travels of mainly Scott Wilson and Justin Lukach (with Andre Dupuis emerging from behind the camera rarely) over the course of three years as they leave family …