Steven is now Reviewer-in-Residence for River Street Writing.

Let RSW founder, publicist and award-winning writer Hollay Ghadery tell you the rest:

"As part of our mission to celebrate amazing books from small presses in Canada and champion a variety of approaches to and perspectives on literary criticism, we’re delighted to announce we’re kicking-off a Reviewer-in-Residence (RIR) program. Each RIR term will last six months and come with a honorarium.

Our inaugural RIR is the wonderful Steven Mayoff. Not only is Steven a small press CanLit author, but he is a champion of small press titles, and has been championing books with us since the very beginning.

For Steven’s first review, he looks at Realia (poetry) by three-time Saskatchewan Book Award winner Michael Trussler. Realia was published earlier this year by Saskatchewan’s spectacular little press on the prairie, Radiant Press."

From Steven's review: “The reality of poetry is its ability to speak to a part of ourselves that is asleep much of the time. When that part awakens, what is real and what is metaphor can seem indistinguishable. A sense of unreality enters our belief systems, altering how we see the world. The poetic world of Realia by Michael Trussler (Radiant Press, 2024) takes nothing for granted.“

Click here to read the full review.

For more info on River Street Writing's RIR program, feel free to send them a message through the contact form on their website.

Tags: River Street Writing, Radiant Press