attempt/ to take wing” and – the last lines in the book – “A sugar-swollen monarch/ will shiver its way to warmth.” As I have meant to imply, Locked in Different Alphabets is a courageous writing endeavour, in which the author, much like her parents, takes on the roles, all at once, of a witness, a victim and a survivor. The book holds its own among other accounts by authors of Fiszer’s generation who have memorialized their parents’ horrific early lives and their aftermaths while forthrightly exposing the effects on themselves. The effect of this book, then, though to a great degree sombre and troubling, is ultimately, when one reaches the end, consoling and an affirmation. Locked In Different Alphabets by Doris Fiszer Silver Bow Publishing (2020) ISBN-13 : 978-1774031063 Purchase Locked In Different Alphabets
New League Members Andrea Actis is a writer, editor, memorial maker, and secondgeneration settler living on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and TsleilWaututh Nations. She teaches literature and writing at Capilano University and was Editor of The Capilano Review from 2015-17. Her first book, Grey All Over, is an autoconceptual study of traumatic grief, white working-class identity, false prophets, and whole seriousness. Visit www.andreaactis.com for more information. Richard Brait R.J. Calzonetti is a youth poet who loves how the abstract, intense and dark epics poetry can be. Identifying as he/him, he was born in 1997 and is asexual. He often finds himself writing hour after hour, never satisfied. He was a finalist two years in a row at the Burlington Poetry Slam within the first two years of writing. He has since branched out from spoken word into other forms of poetry. Headline Poetry and
