2020
Review of Parramisha by Frances Roberts Reilly
reviewed by Bob MacKenzie. In firmly holding onto the desire to love and cherish one another we keep faith with many who have gone before us, by honouring those…
Read MoreAccessible, a review of The Vivian Poems: Street Photographer Vivian Maier, by Bruce Rice
Reviewed by Louise Carson. I’d seen a documentary about this woman, a Chicago nanny, born 1926, died 2009, who never seemed to want to display her work, but who saved…
Read MoreSageing, Wider and Deeper: Penn Kemp in Conversation with Jane Munro
by Penn Kemp. The Words Festival has been one of London ON’s liveliest cultural events, presented annually since 2014. But this year, “WordsFest.ca 2020 was presented online in the belief…
Read MoreReview of DREAM FRAGMENTS by Mirabel
Reviewed by Catherine Morrison DREAM FRAGMENTS is an incredible collection of poems that bring readers into her mind, experiencing the vibrant and intimate thoughts she experiences in her sleep. A…
Read MoreBook Review: Glass Float by Jane Munro
Reviewed by Marguerite Pigeon. In her last collection, Blue Sonoma (Brick Books, 2014), Jane Munro used dreamscapes and reportage as paper and pen to trace jagged contours of meaning during…
Read MoreReview: Swoon by Elana Wolff
Reviewed by Kate Marshall Flaherty Swoon by Elana Wolff. Guernica Editions, 2020, 94 pp, ISBN 978-1-77183-507-7 Elana Wolff explores the many layers of ecstasy and everyday-ness in her powerful collection…
Read MoreStraddling the Third Wall: A review of footlights by Pearl Pirie
Reviewed by Louise Carson. Straddling the Third Wall: A review of footlights by Pearl Pirie, Radiant Press, Regina, 2020. Hide-dingle. (Word marriage.) Dictionary, dictionary. Hide’s nuances I’m pretty well up…
Read MoreApples and Oranges, Plastic and Screens, Crows on Utility Poles: a review of Fiona Tinwei Lam’s Odes and Laments
Reviewed by Crystal Hurdle Lam’s third poetry collection, Odes and Laments, surprisingly sweet, offers an equal measure of elegies and odes, sometimes in the same poem. The opener, “Libation,” concludes, “What’s…
Read MoreMeditations on Steffler’s Forty-One Pages
Review of Forty-One Pages: On Poetry, Language and Wilderness by John Steffler Reviewed by Antony Di Nardo In his latest book, Forty-One Pages: On Poetry, Language and Wilderness, a…
Read MoreReview of Understan by Gavin Barrett
Reviewed by Patrick Connors Gavin Barrett lives a life with many layers of creativity. Much of his service to poetry is organizational, such as in curating the Tartan Turban Secret…
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