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Fresh Voices: Roy Adams, Carol Casey
Welcome to the fourteenth edition of Fresh Voices, a project from and for the League’s associate members. The League’s associate members are talented poets who are writing and publishing poetry on their way to becoming established professional poets in the Canadian literary community. We are excited to be taking this opportunity to showcase the work of…
Read MoreFresh Voices: Sasha Saint-Aubin, Janice Colbert, Carolyne Van Der Meer
Welcome to the thirteenth edition of Fresh Voices, a project from and for the League’s associate members. The League’s associate members are talented poets who are writing and publishing poetry on their way to becoming established professional poets in the Canadian literary community. We are excited to be taking this opportunity to showcase the work of…
Read MoreReview: Auguries | By Clea Roberts
Brick Books | 2017 | 104 Page | $20.00 | Purchase online Signs, Signals, Divinations: Clea Roberts’ Auguries Review by Susan McCaslin Clea Roberts’ spare, finely-crafted Auguries (Brick Books, 2017) is, as the title suggests, a scanning of the Yukon sky and landscape for signs and portents of mysteries both hidden and revealed. Grounded in the…
Read MoreFresh Voices: Bradley A. Ramsey, Christopher McCarthy, John Oross
Welcome to the twelfth edition of Fresh Voices, a project from and for the League’s associate members. The League’s associate members are talented poets who are writing and publishing poetry on their way to becoming established professional poets in the Canadian literary community. We are excited to be taking this opportunity to showcase the work of…
Read MoreREVIEW: SISYPHUS: HAIKU WORK OF ANNA VAKAR | ED. VICKI MCCULLOUGH
Catkin Press | 2017 | 85 Page | $18.95 | Available for purchase through editor – inquire at [email protected]. Review by kj munro (appeared first in Haiku Canada Review Vol. 11 No. 2, October 2017) – In Greek mythology, Sisyphus is punished for eternity – he must repeatedly push a boulder uphill, where it rolls back…
Read MoreREVIEW: FOX HAUNTS | BY PENN KEMP
Aeolus House | 2018 | 97 Page | $20.00 | Purchase online Review by Stanley Fefferman, also found on Opus One Review The way suburban garden fences are a line the fox crosses from the countryside to steal our chickens, is like the line fox, since time immemorial, has crossed from the countryside into our…
Read MoreREVIEW: A GENEROUS LATITUDE | BY LENEA GRACE
ECW Press | 2018 | 88 Page | $18.95 | Purchase online Review by M.A. Mahadeo – Lenea Grace’s debut poetry collection A Generous Latitude is an intertwined tale of human interaction, love, loss, and the need for connection. Language transcends literal meaning to reflect today’s dating culture, I found most specifically with the one…
Read MoreFRESH VOICES: M.A. MAHADEO, MICHAEL QUILTY
Read the latest from Fresh Voices, a publication by and for the Associate Members of the League.
Read MoreREVIEW: THE PANIC ROOM | BY REBECCA PAPUCARU
Nightwood Editions | 2017 | 96 Page | $18.95 | Purchase online The Prodigal Daughter’s Return to Memory: Review by Diana Manole Our shared Romanian cultural background has instantly attracted me to The Panic Room (Nightwood Editions, 2017), Rebecca Păpucaru’s debut collection of poems. I was keen to find out how a second-generation Jewish-Romanian-Canadian related…
Read More2018 Book Awards: Winners
The League of Canadian Poets is proud to present the 2018 Book Awards winners of the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the Raymond Souster Award. The winners will each receive $2000 thanks to funding from Canada Council for the Arts , Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council. Learn more about the 2018 awards and celebrate the poetry…
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