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The cover of The Pugilist and the Sailor, by Nadia Ragbar. It shows the silhouette outline of two men in a boxing ring. Through the ropes, the viewer can see a red wall with what looks like a green curtain hanging down over the top half of it

Read @nyurtsaba.bsky.social's review of Nadia Ragbar's The Pugilist and the Sailor (pub. Invisible) in Issue 34!

...At times, the chapters seem more like a clear, well-taken photograph than a series of words on the page...

www.thetemzreview.com/yurcaba-ragb...

The cover of Goose, by Melanie Dennis Unrau. The background is the color of a yellowing and fading piece of paper, with a large red-orange watercolor painting of a goose's footprint in the middle

Read @lethejerome.bsky.social's review of Melanie Dennis Unrau's Goose (pub. @pressassembly.bsky.social) in Issue 34!

...Goose is a medium through which we can look at what discourse makes disappear...

www.thetemzreview.com/melanccedilo...

The cover of Where Histories Meet: Indigenous and Settler Encounters in the Toronto Area, by Victoria Freeman. Most of the cover is a map of Upper Canada. There are ribbons at the top and bottom of the cover of traditional art motifs

Read @mmeindl.bsky.social's review of Victoria Freeman's Where Histories Meet: Indigenous and Settler Encounters in the Toronto Area (pub. U of Calgary Press) in Issue 34!

...Not just stories, but world-views encounter each other on these lands...

www.thetemzreview.com/meindl-freem...

The cover of Outcaste, by Sheila James. The background is gold with light decorative designs on it. There is a close-up depiction of the end of a branch with a few leaves hanging off it, all in shades of red and orange

Read @buriedinprint.bsky.social's review of Sheila James' Outcaste (pub. @gooselane.bsky.social)!

...There are links and loops and holes in Sheila James’s Outcaste, in the forms of expected and unexpected family ties, and secrets maintained for many years...

www.thetemzreview.com/mccauley-jam...

The cover of The Hollow Beast, by Christophe Bernard. It's a stylized and very angular black-and-white drawing of the title, with swirling black-and-white lines curving behind it

Read @buriedinprint.bsky.social's review of Christophe Bernard's The Hollow Beast (pub. @biblioasis.bsky.social)!

...By rotating through perspectives of the originators and the descendants...The Hollow Beast recalls other larger-than-life Québécois novels...

www.thetemzreview.com/mccauley-ber...

The cover of What We Know So Far Is... by Conor Mc Donnell. It's a stylized drawing of a white silhouette of a man falling through the air. His upper half (legs) is set off by orange, while his bottom half (head and back) is against the outlines of a city at night

Read Steven Mayoff's review of Conor Mc Donnell's What We Know So Far Is... (pub. @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social) in Issue 34!

What We Know So Far Is… deftly lays its linguistic self out as a hybrid of diagnosis, dithyramb, and unfolding diorama...

www.thetemzreview.com/mayoff-mc-do...

The cover of Notes from the Ward, by Steffi Tad-y. It's mostly what looks like rectangular blocs of solid red and green paper. Some scribbles show through in sections that look torn

Read Kathryn MacDonald's review of Steffi Tad-y's Notes from the Ward (pub. Gordon Hill)!

You will slip into Tad-y’s rhythm and her spell, her taut, compressed poems, the white space that works for her, and the way the poems resonate with each other...

www.thetemzreview.com/macdonald-ta...

The cover of Tomoki Izumi's Mieruko-chan. It's a typical manga-style drawing of a young girl's face. She is holding a phone and looking directly at the viewer

Read Anson Leung's review of Tomoki Izumi's Mieruko-chan (pub. @yenpress.com) in Issue 34!

...Mieruko-chan focuses on strong, uncompromising artwork and crafty misdirection as its main appeal. Its comedy and drama are solid...

www.thetemzreview.com/leung-izumi-...

The cover of David A. Robertson's 7 Generations: A Plains Cree Saga. It's a typical comic-type drawing in black and shades of turquoise of a person on their knees next to a fire, looking up as th e smoke travels into a portal in the sky

Read Salma Hussain's review of @davidarobertson.bsky.social's 7 Generations: A Plains Cree Saga (pub. Portage & Main)!

...We all need to drop everything and order this special 15th anniversary edition that brings all four titles in the series together...

www.thetemzreview.com/hussain-robe...

The cover of Lake Burntshore, by Aaron Kreuter. It's a blocky, stylized picture of the sun setting over blue waves, with the silhouettes of pine trees visible and with progressively lighter shades of orange/yellow as you look up from the sun

Read Rebecca Gross' review of @aaronkreuter.bsky.social's Lake Burntshore (pub. @ecwpress.bsky.social)!

It captures the experience of timelessness, safety, and home-ness that so many of us, ... as both campers and counselors, returned to camp to find solace in

www.thetemzreview.com/gross-kreute...

The cover of R.I.P. Scoot, by Sara Flemington. It is a black-and-white close-up photo of a cat's head, with the lighter portions in shades of red and orange rather than white. Each of the cat's eyes has a large white X over it; the X looks like casual brushstrokes

Read Kimberley Gilmour's review of Sara Flemington's R.I.P. Scoot (pub. @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social) in Issue 34!

...Flemington's second novel is about imbalances, unlimited creativity, and the implications of an absurd imagination...

www.thetemzreview.com/gilmour-flem...

The cover of Annapurna's Bounty, by Veena Gokhale. The dominant color is dark green, with stylized flowering plants and bushes along the bottom of a window. There is what appears to be a goddess/god/bodhisatva in bronze in front of a yellow sun, right above the title

Read Arismita Ghosh's review of @veenago.bsky.social's Annapurna's Bounty (pub. @dundurnpress.bsky.social)!

If a story can be defined simply as a narrative—a series of connected events—then recipes are some of the most common stories we encounter every day...

www.thetemzreview.com/ghosh-gokhal...

The cover of No Credit River, by Zoe Whittall. It's a red- and pink-toned watercolor painting of a somber face. The title and the author's name look like they were written in drippy blue paint in cursive

Read Hannah Gardiner's review of Zoe Whittall's No Credit River (pub. Book*hug) in Issue 34!

​I was drawn to the bright pink cover: a glum girl in pink and red; indigo letters from the book’s title streaking down her face like textual tears...

www.thetemzreview.com/gardiner-whi...

The cover of November, November, by Isabella Wang. It's soft-focus with the text fuzzing out in places. The background image appears to be a stark landscape with a white-tinted sky above it

Read @amandaearl.bsky.social's review of Isabella Wang's November, November (pub. @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social)!

..I am overwhelmed by the strength of this book, its tenderly crafted images used to evoke such huge feelings of grief, care, concern, and life..

www.thetemzreview.com/earl-wang-34...

The cover of The Life of a Creature, by Nadia Lubiw-Hazard. The cover is green, with a close-up underwater drawing/painting of a turtle caught in seaweed with a hook in its mouth. Other fish swim through the seaweed

Read @amandaearl.bsky.social's review of Nadja Lubiw-Hazard's The Life of a Creature (pub. @arsenalpulp.bsky.social)!

I started to read these short stories, and they were so moving, tender, compelling, and caught me off guard by how brutal they were at times..

www.thetemzreview.com/earl-lubiw-h...

The cover of The Donoghue Girl, by Kim Fahner. It's a dark sepia-toned photo of a woman in what looks like Victorian clothes out in the woods

Read @amandaearl.bsky.social's review of @kimfahner.bsky.social's The Donoghue Girl (pub. @latitude46pub.bsky.social) in Issue 34!

...I think Fahner does a great job of balancing truth and fiction in this novel...

www.thetemzreview.com/earl-fahner-...

The cover of The Unravelling of Ou, by Hollay Ghadery. The background is shades of brown, and the central image is a colorful drawing of a forearm disappearing into a blue sock puppet

Photo of Hollay Ghadery, in front of a dark blue backdrop. A hand wearing a sock puppet is pressed against her right cheek

Read Sumaiya Matin's interview of @hollay.bsky.social re: her novel The Unravelling of Ou (pub. @palimpsestpress.bsky.social) in Issue 34!

...Unnatural is shoving yourself—your abundant and miraculous contradictions—into a box...

www.thetemzreview.com/matin-ghader...

The cover of Resilience, Tom Smart's book about photographer Richard Johnson's work. The background is a pale gray, and the center is a photo of a red ice-fishing hut on a frozen lake

Photo of Richard Johnson, wearing a fur-trimmed parka in the now and holding a large camera

Photo of Tom Smart, leaning on a lectern with a gallery wall of photographs visible behind him

Read @sharonberg.bsky.social's interview of Tom Smart re: his book Resilience about photographer Richard Johnson (pub. Figure 1 Publishing) in Issue 34!

TS: The ice huts and root cellars represent much more than what they appear to be...

www.thetemzreview.com/berg-smart-3...

The cover of ...more songs the radio won't play..., by Stan Rogal. It's a close-up photo of a row of cassette tapes on a blue surface, with one partially-unspooled tape between the title and the author's name

Photo of Stan Rogal, seated outside at a picnic table and holding a glass of beer. A building with open yellow doors and a bright white wall is visible behind him

Read @sharonberg.bsky.social's interview of Stan Rogal re: his collection ...more songs the radio won't play... (pub. @ecwpress.bsky.social) in Issue 34!

...Both interpretation and misinterpretation are normal human conditions that I have no control over...

www.thetemzreview.com/berg-rogal-3...

The cover of A Quilting of Scars, by Lucy E.M. Black. It's a sepia photo of two men working with a horse in a field

Black-and-white headshot of Lucy E.M. Black, seated at a table and looking off to the viewer's left.

Read @sharonberg.bsky.social's interview of Lucy E.M. Black re: her novel A Quilting of Scars (pub. Now or Never Publishing)!

...I feel as though we are going backwards in terms of human rights, diversity, equity and inclusion...

www.thetemzreview.com/berg-black-3...

The cover of "white spaces where we learn to breathe," by Murgatroyd Monaghan. It's in black-and white, and the central image is what looks like a detailed line drawing of a pair of lungs

Headshot of Murgatroyd Monaghan, with a deliberately-blurred background consisting of the warm inside of a room

Despite the unfortunate interviewing circumstances, read Murgatroyd Monaghan's fascinating comments about "white spaces where we learn to breathe" (pub. @offtopicpublishing.bsky.social)

The white spaces on the page mirror the spaces in colonized society...

www.thetemzreview.com/monaghan-int...

Congratulations!!!

Black-and-white photo of E.S. Taillon, sitting cross-legged on the floor and frowning thoughtfully at an open book they are holding in their right hand.

Read E.S. Taillon's inventive "Prompt"!

You are attending a friend’s play for the second time. It is the last show of the run. You are in the front row wearing his mother’s soft, sheer black sweater, but this is important: she is not seated next to you...

www.thetemzreview.com/taillon-34.h...

Photo of rob mclennan at what seems to be the harbor in Vancouver, BC. He stands in the left of the photo, in front of a wrought-iron fence. Behind the fence there are shipping containers, water, the opposite shore and low mountains. The sky is blue with some hazy white clouds

Read @robmclennan.bsky.social's powerful "[ unfinished ]" in Issue 34!

..Alaric was there to complete the deck. His father had been dead and buried for sixteen weeks, but here was Alaric, living out of a shoulder bag in his old bedroom in his parent’s house...

www.thetemzreview.com/mclennan-34....