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Reviews/Blurbs/Afterwords on Work by Other Authors: Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction and Poetry

“Free the caged melros: A Review of trust the bluer skies, Meditations on Fatherhood by paulo da costa.” Regina: University of Regina Press, 2024. Prism International. August 29, 2024. https://prismmagazine.ca/2024/08/29/free-the-caged-melros-a-review-of-trust-the-bluer-skies-meditations-on-fatherhood-by-paulo-da-costa/

The Joyful Song of the Partridge (Novel), Paulina Chiziane. Trans. David Brookshaw. New York: Archipelago Books, 2024. Afterword (484-488) and Back Cover Blurb.

Trust the Bluer Skies: Meditations on Fatherhood (Memoir), paulo da costa. Regina: University of Regina Press, 2024. Invited. Blurb.

29 leads to love (Poetry), Salimah Valiani. Toronto: Inanna Publications, 2021. The Humber Literary, Fall/Winter 2022/23 vol 10, issue 2.  https://humberliteraryreview.com/reviews-1/2022/1/17/reviews-vol-10-issue-2 

A Matter of Geography (A novel), Jasmine d’Costa. Mosaic Press, 2017. “A Matter of Cognition: The ‘Country’ We Live In.” April-July 2018, No. 23, Maple Tree Literary Supplement. http://www.mtls.ca/issue23/irene-marques-2/

A Samurai’s Pink House (Poems), Sonia Saikaley. Inanna Publications. “Finding the Way: A Love that Demands.” April-July 2018, No. 23, Maple Tree Literary Supplement. http://www.mtls.ca/issue23/irene-marques-2/

The Midwife of Torment & Other Stories, Paulo da Costa, Guernica Editions, 2017. “Calling Us into Seeing and Being More: “Me” and the World.” Fall 2017, Canadian Writers Abroad. https://canadianwritersabroad.com/2017/10/02/da-costa/

The Complete Stories: Clarice Lispector, Clarice Lispector. New Directions, 2015. Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Tulsa University, Spring 2017. https://tswl.utulsa.edu/2010s/vol-36/spring-2017-vol-36-no-1/

Only More So (Poems), Millicent Borges Accardi. Salmon Poetry, 2016. “The Love that Language Tries to Conjure Up.” Spring 2017, Hiram Poetry Review (Hiram College, U.S.A). https://hirampoetryreview.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/hpr2017.pdf

AndarIlha: Viagens De Um Hífen (Crónicas), Maria João Dodman. Letras Lavadas Edicões (Portugal), 2016.

Ossuaries (Poems), Dionne Brand. McClelland & Stewart, 2010. “Bones and Marrow.” Canadian Writers Abroad, July 2016. https://canadianwritersabroad.com/2016/06/28/bones-and-marrow/

Most Human Human Contest (Flash Non-Fiction), Carlo Matos. Slash Pine Press, 2015. American Microreviews & Interviews (U.S.A.) November 2015. http://www.americanmicroreviews.com/most-human-human-contest-by-carlo-matos-2

Carnival (Novel), Rawi Hage. House of Anansi, 2012. Canadian Writers Abroad, September 2015. https://canadianwritersabroad.com/2015/09/15/carnival/