For a lot of people, two types of writing are automatically considered opposites: either you read prefabricated made-for-Hollywood-production best-selling novels, or you read difficult elitist and intellectual novels. Over-generalization aside, we mustn’t forget there’s a huge middle ground between Dostoyevsky and Dan Brown. The ambassador for that middle territory should be DC Pierson, author of [...]

Fifty-four periodicals submitted their 2008 issues to A.F. Moritz, editor of this second poetry anthology in the Best Canadian series. When Moritz was awarded the 2009 Griffin prize, the judges’ citation referred to “his formal grace”—an aesthetic which clearly underlies his choices. Of the magazines known for publishing edgier work, only PRECIPICe even makes the [...]