The horses come in so many colours … but no matter their colours, the horses all go at the same speed as they circle round and round. They start together. They finish together, too. Nobody is first and nobody is last. Everyone is equal when you ride a carousel.

― SHARON LANGLEY,
A Ride to Remember: A Civil Rights Story

MOLLY CROSS-BLANCHARD
Guest Editor

Issue 46 Editorial

TERESE MASON PIERRE
Guest Editor

Issue 46 Editorial

CAROUSEL Editor — Mark Laliberte
C46 Copy Editor — Jade Wallace
C46 Special Issue Assistance — Lauren Chang + Taylor Brown
Graphics + Website — Obscure Design

FEATURED ARTIST

STOiK
Pareidolia

FICTION

BRANDI BIRD
The body was alive and then it wasn’t

SEAN DOWIE
Broken Bodies

JESSICA JOHNS
Fort Vermilion Mile

NAILAH KING
The Oracle

LEXI MELLISH MINGO
swim underearth / above sky

KAVELINA TORRES
Technician Qamaq North

POETRY

NATHAN ADLER
Adsookan

FIONA RAYE CLARKE
Talking to Seeds

TRYNNE DELANY
after the flood

WHITNEY FRENCH
2 Poems

KAI MINOSH PYLE
2 Poems

KHALISA RAE
8th Miracle

JOVAN SHADD
The Sound of Blackness in Space

SARAIN FRANK SOONIAS
Keeshig (Going Away for Some Time)

COMICS

NAPATSI FOLGER
First Contact

CONVERSATIONS

ELEE KRALJII GARDINER
interviews Chloé Savoie-Bernard

The second of a 6-part series of conversations with writers about the overlap between their work and their coffee-or-tea drinking rituals

USEREVIEW: 030–044

At the beginning of this year, we switched to a weekly publishing schedule for reviews, with a new review going up on our blog every Wednesday — a phenomenon we christened with the catchy name (and hashtag) #USEREVIEWEDNESDAY. With only a couple of brief breaks, we’ve kept the momentum going, publishing short ‘capsule’ reviews 3 times a month, and traditional or experimental reviews once a month.

To date, we’ve featured around 60 reviews on our blog and social media platforms, written by 20 individual reviewers from across Canada and the U.S., primarily engaging with independent and small press offerings of poetry, fiction, and hybrid work. Reviews 030-044 are collected conveniently below as part of our winter issue — if you haven’t been following along each week, here’s an easy way to get caught up on the latest thoughtful and fervent examinations of contemporary literature!

JADE WALLACE
USEREVIEW 030: (Capsule)

Reviewing Maria Meindl’s debut novel The Work (Stonehouse Publishing, 2020)

HOLLAY GHADERY
USEREVIEW 031: Counting the Hours

A suite of haiku serve as an experimental review of Gillian Wigmore’s novella collection Night Watch (Invisible Publishing, 2021)

JADE WALLACE
USEREVIEW 032: (Capsule)

Reviewing Tyler Pennock’s debut poetry collection Bones (Brick Books, 2020)

SNEHA SUBRAMANIAN KANTA
USEREVIEW 033: Geographies of Continuum

A traditional review of Annick MacAskill’s sophomore poetry collection Murmurations (Gaspereau Press, 2020)

JADE WALLACE
USEREVIEW 034: (Capsule)

Reviewing Annick MacAskill’s poetry collection Murmurations (Gaspereau Press, 2020)

JADE WALLACE
USEREVIEW 035: (Capsule)

Reviewing Amy Leblanc’s debut poetry collection I Know Something You Don’t Know (Gordon Hill Press, 2020)

USEREVIEW 036:
A Colossal Problem

An anonymous reviewer finds themselves not up to the task of analyzing Jeremy Colangelo’s debut fiction collection Beneath the Statue (Now or Never Publishing, 2020) in this experimental review

JADE WALLACE
USEREVIEW 037: (Capsule)

Reviewing Paul Edward Costa’s debut short fiction collection God Damned Avalon (Mosaic Press, 2020)

LEAH BOBET
USEREVIEW 038: Watch the Left Hand

A traditional review of novelist Jen Sookfong Lee’s debut poetry collection The Shadow List (Wolsak & Wynn, 2021)

JADE WALLACE
USEREVIEW 039: (Capsule)

Reviewing Theresa Kishkan’s novella The Weight of the Heart (Palimpsest Press, 2020)

JADE WALLACE
USEREVIEW 040: (Capsule)

Reviewing Claire Caldwell’s latest poetry collection Gold Rush (Invisible Publishing, 2020)

JADE WALLACE
USEREVIEW 041: (Capsule)

Reviewing Jennifer Hosein’s debut poetry collection A Map of Rain Days (Guernica Editions, 2020)

SARAH CAVAR
USEREVIEW 042: Mad Epistemology

The essay is stretched to the limits of its form in this experimental review of Johanna Hedva’s mixed-genre literary work Minerva the Miscarriage of the Brain (Sming Sming Books + Wolfman Books, 2020)

A.G. PASQUELLA
USEREVIEW 043: Tower of Babelfish

A traditional review of Roxanna Bennett’s latest poetry collection The Untranslatable I (Gordon Hill Press, 2021)

JADE WALLACE
USEREVIEW 044: (Capsule)

Reviewing Sneha Subramanian Kanta’s poetry chapbook Ghost Tracks (Louisiana Literature Press, 2020)

Published semi-annually. We gratefully acknowledge the financial assistance of the Central Students’ Association and the students of the University of Guelph.

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