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Review: Shards of Crystal | By Fern G. Z. Carr
Silver Bow Publishing | 2018 | 98 Page | $23.95 | Purchase online The Musicality of Stars: Shards of Crystal Reviewed by Cynthia Sharp. Originally published on Canadian Poetry Review’s Facebook page. I’ve been a fan of Fern G. Z. Carr’s work for years, whether it’s orbiting Mars or in literary journals through the globe.…
Read MoreReview: Practical Anxiety | By Heidi Greco
Inanna Publications | 2018 | 104 Page| $18.95 | Purchase online Double the Pleasure: Heidi Greco’s Practical Anxiety Review by Susan Ioannou When Inanna Publications announced Heidi Greco’s newest collection Practical Anxiety, it blurbed that the poems “dwell in the hearth of domesticity.” I was intrigued by the title, especially if the poems might relate…
Read MoreReview: Checking In | By Adeena Karasick
Talonbooks | 2018 | 96 Page | $16.95 | Purchase online Reviewed by Jake Marmer for Tablet Poetry, at its core, is a mystical endeavor: an encounter with the web of language that holds our consciousness. This is true even if the poem, on the surface, seems like a series of puns about Facebook, the…
Read MoreReview: The Heart of All Music: Poems about Music and Musicians | By Stanley Fefferman
Aeolus House | 2018 | 52 Page | $20.00 | Purchase online Reviewed by Penn Kemp for Bywords Convergence is a word often used to describe the reshaping of our world by such forces as the Internet. This concept also applies to Stanley Fefferman’s latest collection, The Heart of All Music, which can be described, appropriately,…
Read MoreReview: Writers North of 54° Chapbooks
Snow Feathers and Skunk Cabbage anthologies from Writers North of 54° 2016 | Contact Harold Fedderson at [email protected] to purchase these chapbooks poems of winter and renewal Review by Lesley Strutt Whatever else we are, Canadians are a nordic people. Our psyche is shaped by our geography. No matter whether we hail from the east or the…
Read MoreFresh 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…
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