Category Archives: Poetry

Springtime Book Tours and Prizes, Prizes, Prizes: Rae Spoon, Alex Leslie, Anne Fleming, Amber Dawn, and Imogen Binnie!

Posted on March 22, 2013 by CaseytheCanadianLesbrarian

It’s been a while since I’ve written a news-focused post and there are a few exciting things happening in queer bookland!  First of all, the Lambda literary and Triangle awards have been announced and there are a few Canadian contenders … Continue reading →

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Gorgeous Literary Camp (That I Didn’t Like): A Review of Lisa Foad’s The Night is a Mouth

Posted on March 14, 2013 by CaseytheCanadianLesbrarian

Reading queer Torontonian Lisa Foad’s 2008 debut short story collection The Night is a Mouth has been one of my strangest and most difficult reading experiences.  I started the book with high expectations: I loved the title and the evocative, … Continue reading →

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“Poetry is the muscle, the winged dream of liberation”: A Review of the Queer Issue of Poetry is Dead

Posted on December 3, 2012 by CaseytheCanadianLesbrarian

I knew as soon as I read Alex Leslie’s smart, heartfelt introduction to the queer issue of Poetry is Dead–a poetry journal based out of Vancouver–that I was going to love what was between its pages.  She writes, for example, … Continue reading →

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Geographies of People and Places: A Review of Leah Horlick’s Poetry Collection Riot Lung

Posted on November 23, 2012 by CaseytheCanadianLesbrarian

Although I often introduce writers in this blog by telling readers where they come from, it seems particularly apt to do so with mixed race queer feminist poet Leah Horlick: she hails from Saskatoon, but is currently based in Vancouver.  … Continue reading →

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Reimagining the Sublime West Coast: A Review of Alex Leslie’s People Who Disappear

Posted on October 11, 2012 by CaseytheCanadianLesbrarian

I first encountered Vancouver writer Alex Leslie’s work in the new queer Canadian literary magazine Plenitude, which I recently reviewed.  I thought Leslie’s prose poems in Plenitude gorgeously expressed the complexities of queer desire.  So when I was offered the … Continue reading →

Posted in Canadian, Emma Donoghue, Fiction, Hiromi Goto, Indigenous, Lesbian, Poetry, Queer, Short Stories, Vancouver | Tagged , , , , , | 7 Comments