“Tinkerbell, tinker hell,
ménage me like a carousel;
Juicy ass, DSL:
I’ll make you wet like Ariel.”
― BROOKE CANDY, Nymph
MARK LALIBERTE
Managing Editor
Issue 47 Editorial
Poetry Editor — Taylor Brown
Fiction Editor — Jessica Poole
Reviews Editor — Jade Wallace
Graphics + Website — Obscure Design
2021/22 Editorial Staff
Grace Bilger
Susane Dang
Gabriella Dritsas
Elisabeth Finkelzon
Eileen Hack
Samuel Peacock
Sarah Peters
Eva Zheng
Copyright © 2022 by the contributors. All rights reserved.
FEATURED ARTIST
BLAISE MORITZ
Bar Delicious
A long-form Art Deco / Constructivist comics critique of obligatory consumption under Late Capitalism … yummy too!
FICTION
CATHERINE AUSTEN
Sadistic Romance Writers
HANA MASON
Same-Same
TUSA SHEA
Regina
T.L. TOMLJANOVIC
The Goat Hunter
POETRY
JEFF WILLIAM ACOSTA
Almost March Equinox
FAIZ AHMAD
2 Poems
SUSIE BERG
Morning
ANNA BINKOVITZ
My Blood Thinners Make Me a Prophet
DOMENICO CAPILONGO
misbutton
JEN CURRIN
Quilts
LOISA FENICHELL
It’s been a long time of light:
JONATHAN FOCHT
channel
HOLLAY GHADERY
Roll
ROBIN GOW
box of lures
JESSIE JONES
2 Poems
DANIEL MALUKA
god doesn’t speak to your kind
EMORY ROSE
Forget the Middle Years
CONVERSATIONS
ELEE KRALJII GARDINER
interviews Lydia Kwa
The third of a 6-part series of conversations with writers about the overlap between their work and their coffee-or-tea drinking rituals
USEREVIEW: 045–059
It’s been over a year and a half since we published our first review as part of CAROUSEL‘s regular USEREVIEW section back in September 2020, and we’ve now published more than 80 reviews. Currently, we’re publishing an average of one review per week, a frequency and consistency we’re quite proud of because it means we can give due attention to a large number (though never all!) of the deserving works of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, graphic and hybrid literature being published every year.
With USEREVIEW, we have two main goals: to do justice to the varied forms that literature can take by ensuring that we review books that represent all forms of writing, including the more obscure and experimental; and to honour the many forms that a book review itself can take, by publishing not only full-length traditional reviews, but also regularly soliciting and presenting the best in experimental and short-form capsule reviews. We’re pleased to say that we think the current section of reviews, USEREVIEWs 045–059, fulfill both aspects of our cherished mandate.
JADE WALLACE
USEREVIEW 045: (Capsule)
Reviewing Sue Goyette’s latest poetry collection Anthesis (Gaspereau Press, 2020)
JADE WALLACE
USEREVIEW 046: (Capsule)
Reviewing David Haskins’ latest poetry collection Blood Rises
(Guernica Editions, 2020)
URSULA PFLUG
USEREVIEW 047: Dreams to Have
A traditional review of Jessi MacEachern’s debut poetry collection A Number of
Stunning Attacks (Invisible Publishing, 2021)
JADE WALLACE
USEREVIEW 048: (Capsule)
Reviewing Rosalind M. Pepall’s essay collection Talking to a Portrait: Tales of an Art Curator (Véhicule Press, 2020)
GARY BARWIN
USEREVIEW 049: A Bespoke Respoke
A sound poem acts as an experimental review of Kate Siklosi + PSW’s collaborative artists’ book Reply (2021)
JOELLE KIDD
USEREVIEW 050: Curating Vulnerability
A traditional review of Molly Cross-Blanchard’s debut poetry collection Exhibitionist (Coach House Books, 2021)
MANAHIL BANDUKWALA
USEREVIEW 051: A Landscape in Time
An illustrated experimental review of Selina Boan’s debut poetry collection Undoing Hours (Nightwood Editions, 2021)
ANNICK MACASKILL
USEREVIEW 052: (Capsule)
Reviewing Travis Sharp’s poetry collection Yes, I Am A Corpse Flower (knife|fork|book, 2021)
MARK LALIBERTE
USEREVIEW 053: (Capsule)
Reviewing Michael e. Casteels’ poetry collection The Man with the Spider Scar (Puddles of Sky Press, 2021)
JADE WALLACE
USEREVIEW 054: (Capsule)
Reviewing Allie McFarland’s novel Disappearing in Reverse (University of Calgary Press, 2020)
JOHN NYMAN
USEREVIEW 055: Blowing Up the Book
A traditional review of Paolo Javier’s poetry-comics hybrid collection O.B.B. (Nightboat Books, 2021)
JADE WALLACE
USEREVIEW 056: (Capsule)
Reviewing Hollay Ghadery’s debut essay collection Fuse (Guernica Editions, 2021)
JADE WALLACE
USEREVIEW 057: (Capsule)
Reviewing Sabyasachi Nag’s latest poetry collection Uncharted (Mansfield Press, 2021)
DEIRDRE DANKLIN
USEREVIEW 058: The Death Card
A traditional review of Samantha Garner’s debut novel The Quiet Is Loud (Invisible Publishing, 2021)
JADE WALLACE
USEREVIEW 059: (Capsule)
Reviewing Paul B. Preciado’s essay Can the Monster Speak? (semiotext(e), 2021)
Published two or three times a year. We gratefully acknowledge the financial assistance of the Central Students’ Association and the students of the University of Guelph.
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