Review of Keeping Count by M. Travis Lane

Reviewed by Marguerite Pigeon Keeping Count by M. Travis Lane (Gordon Hill Press, 2021)           How can we think about aging and death? As frightening inevitabilities—matters of dread? As processes we’d prefer to wish away or hand over for biomedical oversight (at least in some cultures)? In Keeping Count (Gordon Hill,…

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Review of Cattail Skyline By Joanne Epp

Reviewed by Michael Edwards Cattail Skyline by Joanne Epp (Turnstone Press)    Joanne Epp’s Cattail Skyline (Turnstone Press, 2021) is her second poetry collection. The book is an attentive and intimate poetic treatment of the Canadian prairie landscape. Her poems are immediate and mindful and often steeped in a sense of nostalgia. Though some of…

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Two Voices: A Review of The Blue Moth of Morning by P.C. Vandall

Reviewed by Louise Carson The Blue Moth of Morning by P.C. Vandall, The Porcupine’s Quill, 2020. It wasn’t until I reached the last pages of The Blue Moth of Morning, in the section entitled Stage Four: Moth, that I began to understand the structure and/or intent of the poet and/or editor. Call me slow, but…

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One Whose Name Was Water by Ellen Chang-Richardson

Ellen Chang-Richardson (they/her) is an award-winning poet whose multi-genre writing has appeared in Room, third coast magazine, and Watch Your Head, among others. The co-founder of Riverbed Reading Series, founder of Little Birds Poetry, and a member of the poetry collective VII, Ellen currently lives and works on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin…

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