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  • Review: Dream of Me as Water in DVAN

    Poet Kim Nguyen reviews Dream of Me as Water for DVAN. David Ly’s Dream of Me as Water is ultimately a touching read because of how down-to-earth it is. The collection does not pretend to know things it does not know, and takes the reader on a journey to find things out together. As we… Read more

  • Review: Queer Little Nightmares in the British Columbia Review

    Zoe McKenna reviews Queer Little Nightmares for The British Columbia Review. Like all good scary stories, this collection has a way of lingering. the british columbia review Read more

  • Interview: Quill & Quire

    Shawn Syms runs an interview for Queer Little Nightmares for Quill & Quire. Read more

  • Review: Dream of Me as Water in The Peak

    Gem Yelin Lee reviews Dream of Me as Water for The Peak: SFU’s Student-led Paper. [Dream of Me as Water] felt like a welcome escape from reality’s constraints. I happily ‘swam the waterways / of long-gone mangrove forests,’ with Ly’s spinosaurus, and imagined I, too, could heal as well as a giant pacific octopus which… Read more

  • Interview: The Tyee

    Michelle Cya runs an interview for Queer Little Nightmares in The Tyee. Read more

  • Review: Dream of Me as Water in Heavy Feather Review

    Poet Margaryta Golovchenko reviews Dream of Me as Water for Heavy Feather Review. The poems in Ly’s classification-defying second collection propose that suspension is just another place of possibilities, whether to continue in the same direction or to begin anew, rather than to resign oneself in defeat. It is in this state of letting go… Read more