Now available to order! Sadie McCarney's chapbook The Chaise Lounge, a "haunting collection [that] places the confusion of dementia somewhere at once familiar and uncanny—IKEA": www.thetemzreview.com/store/p49/Th...

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Read Elena Sénéchal-Becker's review of Curtis John McRae's Quietly, Loving Everyone (pub. Véhicule) in Issue 32! The eleven stories ... move like ripples across water: subtle, insistent, spreading outward from moments of grief, longing, and human connection... www.thetemzreview.com/seacuteneacu...

Read Aaron Schneider's review of Shane Neilson's The Reign (pub. @gooselane.bsky.social) in Iss. 32! The Reign is ... restlessly inventive, and as soon as I finished it, I returned to the beginning and read it again for the pleasure of watching the performance www.thetemzreview.com/schneider-ne...

Read @mmeindl.bsky.social's review of Will Rees' Hypochondria (pub. @coachhousebooks.bsky.social)! The glimpses of Rees’s life serve as a backbone for his philosophical and historical explorations, and make Hypochondria a propulsive and deeply satisfying read. www.thetemzreview.com/meindl-rees....

Read @buriedinprint.bsky.social's review of Catherine Cooper's Lásko (pub. Freehand Books)! ...Connection proves not only desirable but essential: connection outward, yes, but inward too... ​ www.thetemzreview.com/mccauley-coo...

Read @buriedinprint.bsky.social's review of ​Éric Chacour's What I Know About You (pub. @coachhousebooks.bsky.social) in Iss. 32! What is extraordinary? Chacour’s deft balancing and bridging: between ambiguity and clarity, between understanding and revisioning www.thetemzreview.com/mccauley-cha...

Read Kathryn MacDonald's review of Thomas Leduc's Palpitations (pub. @latitude46pub.bsky.social)! ...The poems sometimes bristle, sometimes soberly reflect. Throughout, there’s something alive, gritty and tender, too, often with a sarcastic adolescent edge... www.thetemzreview.com/macdonald-le...

Read Anson Leung's review of Tsugumi Ohba's Death Note (pub. @viz.com) in Issue 32! ...a worthy read for anybody who wants a mental back and forth battle, since there are moments when it is gripping and worth reading... www.thetemzreview.com/leung-ohba.h...

Read Salma Hussain's review of Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross' The Longest Way to Eat a Melon (pub. @sarabandebooks.bsky.social)! ...These are stories that at their core center on the difficulty of making art in a capitalistic world, and on the illusion of control... www.thetemzreview.com/hussain-zong...

Read Pauline Holdstock's review of Speech Dries Here on the Tongue (Eds. @hollay.bsky.social et al.) (pub. Gordon Hill) in Issue 32! ...It is, after all, how hope for change edges closer to becoming reality in the human world: one human at a time... www.thetemzreview.com/holdstock-gh...

Read Pamela Hensley's review of Christine Estima's Letters to Kafka (pub. House of Anansi) in Issue 32! ...Estima reminds us of a woman whose legacy is greater than that of a “muse to a great man”. www.thetemzreview.com/hensley-esti...

Read Kimberley Gilmour's review of @amykaler.bsky.social's Half-Light: Westbound on a Hot Planet (pub. @ualbertapress.bsky.social) in Issue 32! ...This creative non-fiction book is a journey through the otherworlds, the outskirts... www.thetemzreview.com/gilmour-kale...

Read @amandaearl.bsky.social's review of Carol Krause's A Bouquet of Glass (pub. @guernicaeditions.bsky.social)! ...Awe and a sense of recognition still my brain and my body. I feel reverence for this poet’s ability to articulate the dark and light... www.thetemzreview.com/earl-krause-...

Read @amandaearl.bsky.social's review of Speech Dries Here on the Tongue (Eds. @hollay.bsky.social et al.) (pub. Gordon Hill) in Issue 32! ...In the preface, the editors make a connection between how we treat each other and how we treat the natural world... www.thetemzreview.com/earl-ghadery...

Read @bonnycd.bsky.social's review of Travis Sharp's Yes, I Am a Corpse Flower (pub. @knifeforkbook.bsky.social) in Issue 32! ...Not the heady perfume of abstraction, but the carrion/clarion call to come pollinate while the getting is against all odds good. www.thetemzreview.com/bonnycd-shar...

Read @creativerunnings.com's review of Su Chang's The Immortal Woman (pub. @houseofanansi.bsky.social)! It is a beautiful exploration of personal conflict at the intersection of family, politics, and culture, seen through the eyes of two remarkable women... www.thetemzreview.com/angeacutelin...

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Read Sumaiya Matin's interview of @zslong.bsky.social re: her novel Where the Jasmine Blooms (pub. @fernpub.bsky.social)! ...I think that we all want to live in places where we feel safe, like we belong and have the opportunities to live a comfortable life... www.thetemzreview.com/matin-sleima...

Read @sharonberg.bsky.social's interview of @karensmythe.bsky.social re: her novel A Town With No Noise (pub. @palimpsestpress.bsky.social) in Issue 32! ...I’m the kind of writer who ... remembers details of stories I’m told about people... www.thetemzreview.com/berg-smythe....

Read @sharonberg.bsky.social's interview of The Long Dash Group re: their collection Heart-Threads: Bonds that Bind! The parameters for the chapbook were guided by the League of Canadian Poets National Poetry Month (NPM) theme of family—broadly conceived... www.thetemzreview.com/berg-long-da...

Read @sharonberg.bsky.social's interview of Debbie Okun Hill re: her collection When Floorboards Speak (pub. Beret Days)! ..I decided to try writing poems about the various stages of construction: from the blueprints to the framing, to the drywall, painting... www.thetemzreview.com/berg-hill-32...

Read @sharonberg.bsky.social's interview of Brian Bartlett re: his collection The Astonishing Room (pub. Frontenac House)! The poems turn to aging, mortality, sickness, death...That might sound a little grim—but I trust that the book is also celebratory... www.thetemzreview.com/berg-bartlet...

Don't miss Ruby Walker's wonderful story "Nothing is Better Than Anything Else" in Issue 32! ...Knowing about The Machine is scary but it simplifies life, in a way... www.thetemzreview.com/walker-32.html

Read Fendy S. Tulodo's fantastic story "Yesterday, the Future Licked My Hand" in Issue 32! A glass spider climbed out of a cracked phone screen and whispered coordinates into Ezra’s palm. No one else saw it. They only saw Ezra shivering... www.thetemzreview.com/tulodo.html

Read Norie Suzuki's haunting "Octopus Lesson"! ...Although it has three blue-blood-pumping hearts, the octopus’s lifespan is only three to five years. So, no learning is passed down from one generation to the next—no accumulation of collective memory... www.thetemzreview.com/suzuki-32.html

Read Allison Snyder's acid story "The Girl Runner's Pocket Dictionary" in Issue 32! ... Battle (bǎt’l) n. 1. What Coach likens every race, every practice to... www.thetemzreview.com/snyder-32.html

Read Itto & Mekiya Outini's fantastic story "Death of an Icon" in Issue 32! Bakhtiyor was pronounced dead on Monday morning. The kids at the nonprofit where he used to volunteer must’ve worked on his eulogy all weekend because it took up their entire newsletter... www.thetemzreview.com/outini.html

Don't miss Per Olvmyr's sinister, surrealist flash "Failed attempts with horses" in Issue 32! ​How do you get a hundred thousand people into a horse's ass? I asked Dad at breakfast. He started crying... www.thetemzreview.com/olvmyr.html

Don't miss Amanda Merpaw's wonderful "How Should the Night Feel?" in Iss 32! I knew I would agree to meet him when I recognized his voice upon hearing it, our only phone call after weeks of emails and texts, when I could tell it was the voice that should be his www.thetemzreview.com/merpaw-32.html

Read Sumaiya Matin's devastating story "A Sweet Life" in Issue 32! ... The poison floating in my bloodstream cures me, if not permanently, just for the time being. It holds me from the inside as I melt into the tears of all my disappointments ... www.thetemzreview.com/matin-32.html

Read Nelson Chukwu John's haunting story "Click Here to Get Started" in Issue 32! You are a 37-year-old man whose index finger reacts badly to honey. You are a 37-year-old man who just signed up for an escort service, of course as a patron... www.thetemzreview.com/john-32.html

Don't miss Sarah Clowes' whimsical-yet-acid story "Seahorse Daddy" in Issue 32! ...A year ago, I was living with a friend in a one-and-a-half-bedroom apartment, and now it’s me, my infant son, and forty-seven rats... www.thetemzreview.com/clowes.html

Don't miss @paulsheppard.bsky.social's visually innovative poem "a n y w a y (s)" in Issue 32! Excerpting doesn't do it justice; just click through to the poem: www.thetemzreview.com/sheppard-32....

Read Bryan Sentes' moving poems in Issue 32! "Ars Poetica ... 'The top global stories that matter'": Russian destruction of Borodyanka even “more horrific” than in Bucha, oxytocin turns lions into lovecats, one big step for the space economy. www.thetemzreview.com/sentes-32.html

Read Stan Rogal's wry and effective poems in Iss 32! From "Love, inc.": so say we inhabit a drowsy movie theatre-type darkness full of American bullet holes : a monkey on its back — this is the state of the empire, yes? — ... www.thetemzreview.com/rogal-32.html

Don't miss Jon Riccio's fantastic poems in Issue 32! From "Aptitude": Like powdered milk discerning its best friend was the mailbox, some iambs should never— Play-Doh romcom— frangible the new tangible per beauty magazines of the bi-valvous. ... www.thetemzreview.com/riccio.html

Read Sreeja Naskar's moving poems in Issue 32! From "concourse A, body unclaimed": ... forgive me, mother. i ate news again   for breakfast. choked on the names.     the bodies.       the borders. ... www.thetemzreview.com/naskar.html

Read @ziyanakotadia.bsky.social's lovely poem "Sacred" in Issue 32! I know my religion like a habit, carefully crafted performance art, sloping verses of Du’a tattooed over my tongue in muscle memory swirls and loops, rust-worn stories upon well-rehearsed lips ... www.thetemzreview.com/kotadia.html

Don't miss Hannan Khan's inventive poems in Issue 32! From "Amore & Accelerants": i charred the haven to hone how torch behaves my jaws were always stuffed with someone else’s fire the fucking mirror lamented ... www.thetemzreview.com/khan-32.html

Read PW Jarungpiterah's fantastic poems in Issue 32! From "The Reader": ... Your body is planographic— black ink corridors of copies of copies. Under a hot shining firmament, the gilt that covers everything comes off on your hands. www.thetemzreview.com/jarungpitera...

Read Marvellous Mmesomachi Igwe's lyrical poems in Issue 32! From "Angels": .. This is what he does, what I do, what we have all done. Hold the things we say we love the most in the worlds collapsing in our palms. And watch them crumble, watch them unravel .. www.thetemzreview.com/igwe-32.html

Read Leah Duarte's haunting poems in Issue 32! From "calcium": angel hair scalded in boiling milk sugar steam licking thin-skinned lids wait for the custard to thicken sugar crystals dissolving at the roots hang dripping hair upside down ... www.thetemzreview.com/duarte-32.html

Read Kelly Norah Drukker's lovely poems in Issue 32! "origins": to dwell on the rocks like a rough moss among the scrub of dead things, beginning www.thetemzreview.com/drukker.html

Don't miss Louise Carson's wonderful poems in Issue 32! From "And a bird...": I have tried to slip these words into a poem over many summers, but always drowned in the details. ... www.thetemzreview.com/carson-32.html

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GTA, don't miss the launch for Michael Russell's fantastic chapbook "gallery of heartache" on Tues. Sept. 16 at 7pm at Imperial Pub (54 Dundas St. E) in Toronto! Event details: www.facebook.com/events/19981... Review of gallery of heartache: miramichireader.ca/2025/09/gall...