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FRESH VOICES: TONY VALUCH, GREG STIDHAM, TONY BRATHWAITE
Welcome to the seventh 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…
Read MoreREVIEW: FRIENDLY + FIRE | BY DANIELLE LAFRANCE
Talonbooks | 2017 | 128 Page | $18.95 | Purchase online Review by Cam Scott — Friendly + Fire is a capella pornography, a multi-vocal argument concerning the collateral damages attendant upon military aggression, where the exceptional conditions definitive of combat suffuse an everyday civic. “Honey, it’s not your ginch, it’s your friends,” the opening…
Read MoreREVIEW: THE CHEMICAL LIFE | BY JIM JOHNSTONE
Reviewed by Chad Campbell in The Manchester Review: …In the corridors of these nested worlds we glimpse, like the wheel on the wall, the slow crash and delayed impact of addiction and mental illness across the sections of The Chemical Life. Divided into 5 sections of 6 poems each (the 8-poem versioning of Ovid’s Metamorphoses…
Read MoreREVIEW: SEVEN SUNS/SEVEN MOONS | BY MICHAEL DYLAN WELCH & TANYA MCDONALD
NeoPoiesis Press | 68 pages | $14.95 | Purchase online Review by kjmunro — This unique collection includes two sections – suns written by Welch & moons written by McDonald – followed by several collaborations on the same themes where the poets work together. A brief but helpful explanation at the end of the book…
Read MoreREVIEW: COMMA | BY JENNIFER STILL
BookThug | May 2017 | 164 pages | $20.00 | Purchase online Review by Cam Scott — Jennifer Still’s latest is a tender document of writing-through: through a traumatic family episode, and through the text of another, foregrounding the bodily saliency of each. In the meticulous title sequence, ‘comma’ denoting both a lived and written…
Read MoreREVIEW: PETALS IN THE DARK | ED. MARSHALL HRYCIUK
Catkin Press | 76 pages Review by kjmunro — Renku is a form of collaborative linked verse poetry, with the emphasis on collaboration. Fifteen from renku master Marshall Hryciuk are included here. What was the selection process for this book? How were these poems chosen? How many more poems are there? Based on the quality…
Read MoreREVIEW: VIOLET ENERGY INGOTS | BY HOA NGUYEN
Wave Books | September 2016 | $18.00 | Purchase online Review by Cam Scott — Opaquely personal, spare but social, Hoa Nguyen’s writing more than most fulfills Louis Zukofsky’s mandate of a poetry arranging “minor units of sincerity” into shaped apprehension. Nguyen’s verse flits and fidgets by the phrase, conveying something of the poem’s occasion…
Read MoreREVIEW: HUE: A DAY AT BUTCHART GARDENS | BY TERRY ANN CARTER
Leaf Press | 2014 | 51 pages | $12.00 | Purchase online Review by kjmunro — Another success from Leaf Press – from the cover photo of the Dancing Fountain & the bright orange endpapers to the signature emblem framing the poems on each small page – Hue: a Day at Butchart Gardens is beautifully…
Read MoreREVIEW: BECOMING A HAIKU POET | BY MICHAEL DYLAN WELCH
Press Here | 2015 | $9.00 | See more Review by kjmunro — On the first page of Becoming a Haiku Poet, author Michael Dylan Welch states, “While too much information can also impede the poetic impulse, with haiku, as with other genres of poetry, it’s worthwhile to move beyond superficialities…”. This book does that.…
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, many people and things. You must know the animals, you must feel how the birds fly …. You must be able to think back to…
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