Reviewed by Drew McEwan Gwen Aube, Missed Connections with Tall Girls (LittlePuss Press, 2026), 104pp., $22.95. I mean this as the highest compliment: Gwen Aube’s 2026 poetry collection Missed Connections with Tall Girls is the most t4t (trans for trans) book I’ve ever read. I mean this not in...
Power to force, I have none. I cannot make things/ humans happen. In the hostel, a tall, narrow window by my pillow opens only at the top. It has no screen. I wake in early morning to the sound of distressed wings— two monarchs fluttering by my face, on the ledge, a metre below the opening. One...
Cruising public bathrooms used to be the only life-threatening activity that we had to worry about. You back your truck into a shaded parking space in the far corner of this well-known cruising spot in a moment of desperation and desire, hoping that someone will park close to you. However, after we...
Mommy J always drove home in the dark. Today my chest lifted & I pretended it didn’t so it might stay longer. It is rare I cry. I love myself but not entirely. Sometimes I’m so vain even I think it’s stupid, if vanity is the right word for what I do in secret. Like googling myself—it never gets...
Reviewed by Anne Perdue Nadja Lubiw-Hazard, The Life of a Creature (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2026), 208pp., $21.95. Nadja Lubiw-Hazard is a Toronto-based writer, and author of the novel The Nap-Away Motel and two children’s chapter books. Her latest book, The Life of a Creature, is a bold collection of...
“Talk to dad yet?” Derek asks. His Civic is making the exit out of town along the highway. It’s the middle of the day, which feels a little late to be heading out but I can’t be up before eleven. My body just won’t do it. I glance up from my phone, tuck it into my pocket. “Yeah, of course. I told...
