Book Review
Standing on Shimmer: a review of Circle Tour by Eva Tihanyi
Reviewed by Josie Di Sciascio-Andrews Circle Tour by Eva Tihanyi (Inanna Publications, 2023) They say an image is worth a thousand words: passion, the heart, a woman’s life journey, her…
Read MoreReview: Orion Sweeping by Anne Marie Todkill
Reviewed by Pearl Pirie Orion Sweeping by Anne Marie Todkill (Brick Books)8.75 x 5.75 Inches | 88 PagesPublication Date: April 1, 2022Trade Paperback ISBN:9781771315692 Orion Sweeping by Anne Marie Todkill…
Read MoreReview: Casa de mi Corazón: A Travel Journal of Poetry and Memoir by Lindsay Soberano-Wilson
Reviewed by Rion Levy Casa de mi Corazón: A Travel Journal of Poetry and Memoir by Lindsay Soberano-Wilson In her small but packed Casa de mi Corazón, we watch Lindsay…
Read MoreReview: ineffable, The Mystical Poems by Edwin Varney
Reviewed by Stephen Morrissey ineffable, The Mystical Poems by Edwin Varney (The Poem Factory, Courtenay, BC, 2022). 14 pages. ISBN: 978-1-895593-57-0 Back in 1977, I reviewed Edwin Varney’s Human Nature (1974), published in…
Read MoreWhen the day is nearly done, a review of Timed Radiance, by Donna Langevin
Reviewed by Louise Carson Timed Radiance, by Donna Langevin (Aeolus House, 2022). There are many examples of fine language in this collection of poems that have (mostly) been written as…
Read MoreTrying to be the tree: a review of somewhere still in wind the tree is bending by Bob MacKenzie
Reviewed by Louise Carson somewhere still in wind the tree is bending by Bob MacKenzie (Silver Bow Publishing, New Westminster, 2018). The tree is on the front cover, a weathered…
Read MoreWelcome to my nightmare: A review of Hell-Box by Peter Taylor
Reviewed by Louise Carson Hell-Box by Peter Taylor (Frog Hollow Press, 2020). As the first note at the end of this chapbook explains, “A hell-box is a receptacle for damaged…
Read MoreSnapshots: Review of The Negation of Chronology: Imagining Geraldine Moodie, by Rebecca Luce-Kapler
Reviewed by Louise Carson The Negation of Chronology: Imagining Geraldine Moodie, Rebecca Luce-Kapler (Inanna, 2020). I knew after I’d read the forward, that I’d be interested in the material…
Read MoreReview: Rags of Night in Our Mouths by Margo Wheaton
Reviewed by Michael Edwards Rags of Night in Our Mouths by Margo Wheaton (MQUP, 2022) I. Margo Wheaton’s second poetry collection, Rags of Night in Our Mouths, takes the form…
Read MoreNutlike: a review of Arborophobia by Nancy Holmes
Reviewed by Dawn MacDonald Arborophobia by Nancy Holmes (University of Alberta Press, 2022) “Pray inwardly,” the 15th-century Christian mystic Julian of Norwich once advised, “even if you do not enjoy…
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