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Standing on Shimmer: a review of Circle Tour by Eva Tihanyi

By League of Canadian Poets | May 26, 2023

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…

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Review: Orion Sweeping by Anne Marie Todkill

By League of Canadian Poets | May 5, 2023

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…

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Review: Casa de mi Corazón: A Travel Journal of Poetry and Memoir by Lindsay Soberano-Wilson

By League of Canadian Poets | March 10, 2023

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…

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Review: ineffable, The Mystical Poems by Edwin Varney

By League of Canadian Poets | March 7, 2023

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…

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When the day is nearly done, a review of Timed Radiance, by Donna Langevin

By League of Canadian Poets | March 3, 2023

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…

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Trying to be the tree: a review of somewhere still in wind the tree is bending by Bob MacKenzie

By League of Canadian Poets | March 3, 2023

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…

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Welcome to my nightmare: A review of Hell-Box by Peter Taylor

By League of Canadian Poets | March 3, 2023

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…

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Snapshots: Review of The Negation of Chronology: Imagining Geraldine Moodie, by Rebecca Luce-Kapler

By League of Canadian Poets | March 3, 2023

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…

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Review: Rags of Night in Our Mouths by Margo Wheaton

By League of Canadian Poets | January 30, 2023

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…

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Nutlike: a review of Arborophobia by Nancy Holmes

By League of Canadian Poets | January 30, 2023

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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