Beyond the chick-lit aura given off by the glittery cover, Eric Schmaltz sees “a deeper sense of intelligence and sharp wit” in Myna Wallin’s Confessions of a Reluctant Cougar.

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Toronto’s Black Coffee Poet celebrates Leanne Averbach’s Come Closer in his review and believes that “[p]oets both experienced and new can learn from Averbach’s style.”

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Angela Hibbs reviews several poetry books in an online exclusive called “Poetry Review Roundup,” including Anna Swanson’s The Night Also. Hibbs sees this first collection as an execution with panache and looks forward to Swanson’s next work.

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In her review of Danila Botha’s Got No Secrets, Shannon Webb-Campbell calls Botha’s writing fearless, saying that her “prose packs a punch.” Meanwhile, in another review, Richard Rosenbaum calls Botha’s prose visceral and her writing “stark, honest and stripped-down.”

Click here to read Shannon Webb-Campbell’s review on thecoast.ca, and click here to read Richard Rosenbaum’s review on brokenpencil.com.

June Chua recommends The Best Canadian Essays 2010 and likens the anthology to a buffet by calling it “a smorgasbord of topics and exceptional writing.” She asks, “Who doesn’t like a buffet?”

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