The Seaboard Review of Books: Monday Edition

March 23, 2026

Photo of Saint John, NB: Bryn Robinson

In this issue:

• A Watch of Nightingales, by Catherine Walker (Fiction)

• Northern Girls: True Stories by Michelle Willms (Fiction)

• Live to See the Day: Impossible Goals, Unimaginable Futures, and the Pursuit of Things That May Never Be by Mark Medley (Non-Fiction)

• Becoming Altar: New and Selected Poems by Kyla Houbolt (Poetry)

• Interposition by Kaie Kellough (Poetry)

• The Inventive Disorder of Childhood (Fiction, Children’s Books)

Thanks for reading this issue of The Seaboard Review of Books!

James M. Fisher, editor-in-chief

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