The Seaboard Review: February 10, 2025
Date Volume 2, Issue 6
Hello, TSR Subscriber!
This issue has a little bit of everything: a literary mystery by Anna Dowdall, new fiction from Susan White, a Michael Greenstein poetry review, travel tips, and an in-depth conversation between James Nowak and Kevin Andrew Heslop, a new contributor to TSR. Enjoy!
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Featured Post
The Suspension Bridge by Anna Dowdall
Bridges have always held a fascination for the human species, as evidenced by our use of language: when it comes to networking and relationships, we are advised to “build bridges” and warned not to “burn” them; we ease our worries about the future by telling ourselves that we will “cross that bridge” when we come to it and Paul Simon offers us comfort w…
More Reviews
Tips for Winning the Travel Game
If you’re on the hunt for ways to stretch your travel dollars, How to Win at Travel by Brian Kelly might be the book for you. Kelly, who founded The Points Guy travel blog, shares detailed information about travel booking, points collection and redemption, and other topics, based on experience garnered through extensive personal experience.
Alternator: Poems by Chris Banks
At the very centre of Chris Banks’s latest collection of poetry, the eponymous poem spells out the title’s meaning: “The mind is an alternator.” And his pentameter rhythm alternates between so many things – the exact and abstract, couplet and sonnet, sentence and stanza, metaphor’s tenor and vehicle, the raw and well-done, Spinoza’s lens and John Ashber…
Hardship and Regret with a Silver Lining: Such a Winter’s Day by Susan White
Imagine never feeling comfortable in your own skin and hiding your true self from others. Then imagine running away to free yourself from a life that just doesn’t feel right. Sometimes we make tough decisions in the hope that life will get better but sometimes those decisions lead to regrets and further heartache.
In Conversation…
In Praise of the Field: A Conversation with James Nowak
Everyone has people in their lives who give them something so precious—and maybe not, at the time, obviously precious, but something that becomes so unquestionably precious—that you kind of just feel obliged to carry it on a little bit. I guess that’s the weight of tradition coming through. And I think that can h…
Other TSR News
Saint’s Rest Book Launch!
March 1st, The Write Cup, Market Square, Saint John NB.
Our review of Luke’s new novella will appear in next week’s issue!
Lisa Timpf’s New Book!
Lisa Timpf, a TSR contributor, has a new book out, Cats and Dogs in Space, from Hiraeth Publishing. “Reaching from the distant past to the far future, and points in between, Cats and Dogs in Space invites you to have some fun re-imagining man’s best friend—and whatever it is that cats call themselves.”
John Oughton Writes for Write!
“My article Are Reviews Still Relevant? will be appearing soon in the Winter edition of Write Magazine. It explores whether traditional, long-form book reviews are still an important way to respond to, and help market, books. It includes comments from people in various aspects of the book racket, including writers, booksellers, a publisher, a publicist, and even some guy named James Fisher, on the role of an online reviews.”
Selena Mercuri in Blank Spaces Magazine!
In the Winter issue of Blank Spaces Magazine, TSR Contributor Selena Mercuri has a creative non-fiction article, My Parents’ Restaurant, which “explores the bittersweet reality of a teenage girl caught between childhood responsibilities and independence, as she navigates life in her family’s restaurant basement while yearning for a normal adolescent experience.”
Thanks for reading this issue of The Seaboard Review!
James M. Fisher, editor-in-chief