Reviews
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The Capacity Within
“Are the guys ordering you around a lot?” Someone older asks me while we’re watching the burgers broil on the BBQ at the club. “Actually, I’m the one who does that,” I reply, after a moment to think. “Get on the low side! This isn’t our start!” I slip into an exaggerated version of myself.…
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Thaw
When the air no longer cut our faces and the sidewalk gives up its haul of squashed coffee cups and shredded flyers, I am walking again across Riverdale. The hem-wet fields, the footbridge over Don Valley, the grinning cracks of East Gerald. Nothing has sprouted yet. But the big reveal is coming. All winter I’ve…
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Review of Helen Guri’s Match
The first book review I wrote was on request. Helen Guri asked me to review her debut with Coach House, Match, in the fall of 2011. It’d barely gotten the attention it deserved, though things were beginning to seethe– CWILA formed around that time, pointing to the dearth of reviews of women-authored books in Canadian publishing. I…
Phoebe Ka-Ir Wang 