It's #USEREVIEWEDNESDAY and today we're giving you a sneak peek of what our September Reviewer-in-Residence Emily Woodworth will be up to!
This month, Woodworth will be reviewing:
• Matthew Tétreault‘s debut novel HOLD YOUR TONGUE (NeWest Press, 2023)
• Matthew Del Papa‘s debut essay collection JERRY LEWIS TOLD ME I WAS GOING TO DIE (Latitude 46 Publishing, 2023)
• Ruth DyckFehderau‘s debut novel I (ATHENA) (NeWest Press, 2023)
Find out more at: http://blog.carouselmagazine.ca/september2023-woodworth/
It's #USEREVIEWEDNESDAY & today Jade Wallace reviews Dawn Dumont's latest novel THE PRAIRIE CHICKEN DANCE TOUR (Freehand Books, 2021).
"The prairie chicken — a rare bird that nearly went extinct in the early twentieth century but is now working on a comeback — is known as a strong flyer, so it only makes sense that a book named after the species would take the reader on a whirlwind tour," Wallace writes.
Read the full review on our blog: http://blog.carouselmagazine.ca/usereview098/
It's #USEREVIEWEDNESDAY —> and today we can't believe that it's already August Reviewer-in-Residence Annick MacAkill's last review of the month! This one's a capsule review of IF YOU DISCOVER A FIRE (Brick Books, 2020), Shaun Robinson's debut poetry collection.
"Like a shadowy watermark, a note of anxiety lies beneath the cool, attentive observations of Vancouver-based Shaun Robinson’s debut poetry collection," MacAskill writes.
Read the full review on our blog: http://blog.carouselmagazine.ca/usereview092/
It's #USEREVIEWEDNESDAY —> and today we are pleased to feature August Reviewer-in-Residence Annick MacAkill's second review of the month! It's a capsule review of ICELAND IS MELTING AND SO ARE YOU (Bookhug Press, 2021), the sophomore poetry collection of Talya Rubin.
"Environmental devastation and climate catastrophe are explored from a personal angle, through the speaker’s travels, memories and observations of the 'natural' world, with notes of surrealism and wry humour coming into play," MacAskill writes.
Read the full review on our blog: http://blog.carouselmagazine.ca/usereview091/
It's #USEREVIEWEDNESDAY —> and today we feature July Reviewer-in-Residence Bryce Warnes' final review of the month! It's a capsule review of Dona Mayoora and Gary Barwin's collaborative visual poetry collection PUNCTUM (Gap Riot Press, 2021).
"The noise comes from Professor Teresa Brainerd’s class on Cosmology at Boston University; Brainerd’s research includes investigating the way dark matter haloing large, isolated galaxies may bind smaller galaxies into orbit around them," Warnes writes.
Read the full review on our blog: http://blog.carouselmagazine.ca/usereview087/
It's #USEREVIEWEDNESDAY —> and today we feature July Reviewer-in-Residence Bryce Warnes' second review of the month! It's a capsule review of Kyle Flemmer's visual poetry collection BARCODE POETRY (The Blasted Tree, 2021).
"Some pieces use the barcode’s syncopated rhythm to achieve their effect. [...] Others draw attention to poetry as a consumer product, the intersection of market logic and artistic expression," Warnes writes.
Read the full review on our blog: http://blog.carouselmagazine.ca/usereview086/
It's #USEREVIEWEDNESDAY —> and today we feature May Reviewer-in-Residence Joelle Kidd's second review of the month! It's a capsule review of Peter Counter's essay collection BE SCARED OF EVERYTHING: HORROR ESSAYS (Invisible Publishing, 2020).
"Counter has an adept critical voice and a deep knowledge of horror films, TV, literature and phenomena, which are found at play in his readings of racism in the work of H.P. Lovecraft or the existential dread of a Silent Hill video game teaser. The essays in which he draws upon his own life experience — including recollections of a traumatic moment in his life, painted with terrible, visceral clarity — are affecting and rich," Kidd writes.
Read the full review on our blog: http://blog.carouselmagazine.ca/usereview077/
It's #USEREVIEWEDNESDAY —> and today we feature May Reviewer-in-Residence Joelle Kidd's first review of the month! It's a capsule review of Sadiqa de Meijer's essay collection ALFABET / ALPHABET (Palimpsest Press, 2020).
"Surely there is no one to better explore the limits, beauty and vagaries of language than a poet, someone who has dedicated their life to engaging in a deep relationship with words," Kidd writes.
Read the full review on our blog: http://blog.carouselmagazine.ca/usereview076/
It's #USEREVIEWEDNESDAY —> and today we feature April Reviewer-in-Residence A.G. Pasquella's second review of the month! It's a capsule review of the graphic novel THE GOOD FIGHT, written by Ted Staunton and illustrated by Josh Rosen (Scholastic Canada, 2021).
"I’m glad this book exists. Staunton and Rosen do a good job of shedding light on a shameful chapter of Toronto’s history, when pro-Hitler fascists openly roamed the city’s streets," Pasquella writes.
Read the full review on our blog: http://blog.carouselmagazine.ca/usereview073/
It's #USEREVIEWEDNESDAY —> and today we feature March Reviewer-in-Residence, Hollay Ghadery's first review of the month! It's a capsule review of Jean Marc Ah-Sen, Emily Anglin, Devon Code and Lee Henderson's collaborative novella suite DISINTEGRATION IN FOUR PARTS (Coach House Books, 2021).
"Disintegration in Four Parts … explores the notion of purity in four novellas that are distinct in terms of narrative style, but harmonious in their meta-artistic approach," Ghadery writes.
Read the full review on our blog: http://blog.carouselmagazine.ca/usereview067/
It's #USEREVIEWEDNESDAY —> and today we feature February Reviewer-in-Residence, Manahil Bandukwala's final review of the month! The review is of Terrence Abrahams and Cleopatria Peterson's WHAT WE CALL HOME (Collusion Books, 2021).
"The narrative flows from one poem to the next, evoking a feeling of togetherness that is constantly being constructed," Bandukwala writes.
Read the full review on our blog: http://blog.carouselmagazine.ca/usereview065/
It's #USEREVIEWEDNESDAY —> today Jade Wallace offers a capsule review of Paul B.Preciado's CAN THE MONSTER SPEAK? (Semiotext(e), 2021), the full text of a speech Preciado never finished giving to a group of psychoanalysts at L’École de la Cause Freudienne.
"After reading, I was left with one question: why is Preciado trying to save psychoanalysis if he sees it as fundamentally flawed? Upon reflection, I do not believe he is trying to save the discipline..." Wallace writes.
Read the full review on our blog: http://blog.carouselmagazine.ca/usereview059/.
