Feminist Caucus
The Many Gendered Other Reading List
A Reading List Created by the Feminist Caucus In this troubled time, we are all looking for brilliant, beautiful and insightful poetry. The Feminist Caucus has put together a reading list along…
Read MoreREVIEW: TABLE MANNERS | BY CATRIONA WRIGHT
Signal Editions | 2017 | 88 Page | $17.95 | Purchase online Reviewed by Julie Mannell on Vallum: Contemporary Poetry: It might be a stretch to call Wright’s poetry anti-Whitman because…
Read MoreREVIEW: SIREN | BY KATERI LANTHIER
Signal Editions | 2017 | 80 Page | $17.95 | Purchase online Reviewed by Hannah Brown on Toronto Review of Books: In this collection, the poet delivers rich combinations of…
Read MoreREVIEW: MAUNDER | BY CLAIRE KELLY
Palimpsest Press | 2017 | 72 Page | $18.95 | Purchase online Reviewed by Karen Hofmann on Prairie Fire: “Maunder” is a pejorative term for meandering speech. In this grudging…
Read MoreREVIEW: TRAILER PARK ELEGY | BY CORNELIA HOOGLAND
Harbour Publishing | 2017 | 88 Page | $18.95 | Purchase online Review by Vanessa Shields – Hoogland’s Trailer Park Elegy, a long poem, is a lament that skids down literal…
Read MoreREVIEW: VOODOO HYPOTHESIS | BY CANISIA LUBRIN
Reviewed by Geoffrey Morrison on Debutantes: Lubrin’s book is about the dislocated psychogeography wrought by that history, working through the displacements of the African-Caribbean diaspora from her birthplace of St.…
Read MoreREVIEW: INTO THE OPEN: POEMS NEW AND SELECTED | BY SUSAN MCCASLIN
Inanna Publications | September 2017 | 384 pages | $22.95 | Purchase online Review by J.S. Porter — For the sake of a single poem, you must see many cities,…
Read MoreREVIEW: SILENT SISTER | BY BETH EVEREST
Frontenac House | 2016 | 116 page | $15.95 | Purchase online Review by Sue Bracken — silent sister: the mastectomy poems is a poetic journal of one woman’s particular…
Read MoreREVIEW: THE FACE OF THE OTHER | BY CLARA A.B. JOSEPH
Interactive Press | 2016 | 78 pages | $18.00 | Purchase online Review by Sarah-Jean Krahn — Glimpsing the Face of the Poet through The Face of the Other As…
Read MoreREVIEW: BARBARIC CULTURAL PRACTICE | BY PENN KEMP
Quattro Books | October 2016 | $18.00 | Purchase online Review by Kate Rogers — The title of Penn Kemp’s most recent poetry collection reflects her urgent activist response to…
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