Reviews
To support writers and their publishers, The Malahat Review posts the book reviews appearing in its print edition as each issue is published. They are arranged below by genre and within each genre, by author, listed in alphabetical order of last name. Some of the reviews posted below are expanded versions of the reviews that appeared in the print edition. Years listed are publication dates, not review dates.
Poetry • Fiction • Nonfiction
Spotlight Review:
Rani Rivera
All Violet
In All Violet, a collection heavy with themes of darkness, sorrow, insecurity, and pain, there lies a lighter touch that offers insight into the warmth of the late poet Rani Rivera’s brief and conflicted life. “I guess it’s a thin line between paying / someone to stab your face full of poison / and relaxing in a bath drawn from the blood of local virgins.”
Released posthumously, this book is a legacy underpinned by a life ended far too soon. It is packed with clean imagery and effective line endings that house nuggets of double meaning and cheek, exploring topics of depression, anxiety, and internal conflict.
Poetry
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
Fiction
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
Sandra McIntyre (ed.), Everything Is So Political: A Collection of Short Fiction by Canadian Writers
2012
2011
2010
2009
Nonfiction
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
CONTEST
DEADLINES
Far Horizons
Award for Short Fiction
Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize
SPECIAL
FEATURES
ADVERTISEMENTS
We gratefully acknowledge all of our supporters
