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Standing on Shimmer: a review of Circle Tour by Eva Tihanyi
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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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…
Read MoreReview: Casa de mi Corazón: A Travel Journal of Poetry and Memoir by Lindsay Soberano-Wilson
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…
Read MoreReview: ineffable, The Mystical Poems by Edwin Varney
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…
Read MoreWhen the day is nearly done, a review of Timed Radiance, by Donna Langevin
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…
Read MoreTrying to be the tree: a review of somewhere still in wind the tree is bending by Bob MacKenzie
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…
Read MoreWelcome to my nightmare: A review of Hell-Box by Peter Taylor
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…
Read MoreSnapshots: Review of The Negation of Chronology: Imagining Geraldine Moodie, by Rebecca Luce-Kapler
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…
Read MoreReview: Rags of Night in Our Mouths by Margo Wheaton
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…
Read MoreNutlike: a review of Arborophobia by Nancy Holmes
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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Louise Bernice Halfe – Sky Dancer // 2021-2023
Georgette LeBlanc // 2018 – 2020
George Elliott Clarke // 2016 – 2018
Michael Pleau // 2014 – 2016
Fred Wah // 2011 – 2013
Pierre DesRuisseaux // 2009 – 2011
John Steffler // 2006 – 2008
Pauline Michel // 2004 – 2006
George Bowering // 2002 – 2004
Comox Valley:
Natalie Nickerson // 2017-2019
Nanaimo:
Kamal Parmar // 2021-2023
Valina Zanetti // Youth Poet Laureate // 2019 – 2021
Tina Biello // 2017 – 2020
Kailey DeFehr // Youth Poet Laureate // 2017 – 2018
Naomi Beth Wakan // 2013 – 2016
New Westiminster:
Alan Hill // 2017 – present
Candice James // 2010 – 2016
Don Benson // 1999 – 2007
Edna Anderson // 1998 – 1999
Surrey:
Renée Sarojini Saklikar //2015 – 2018
Tofino:
Joanna Streetly //2018 – present
Vancouver:
Miss Christie Lee (Christie Charles) // 2018-2021
Rachel Rose // 2014 – 2017
Evelyn Lau // 2011 – 2014
Brad Cran // 2009 – 2011
George McWhirter // 2007 – 2009
Victoria:
John Barton // 2019 – 2022
Yvonne Blomer // 2015 – 2018
Argatu Ali // Youth Poet Laureate // 2018 – 2019
Maita Cienska // Youth Poet Laureate // 2017 – 2018
Ann-Bernice Thomas // Youth Poet Laureate // 2016 – 2017
Janet Marie Rogers // 2012 – 2014
Linda Rogers // 2009 – 2011
Carla Funk // 2006 – 2008
Banff:
Steven Ross Smith // 2019-2020
Amelie Patternson // 2017-2018
Calgary:
Natalie Meisner // 2020 – 2022
Sheri-D Wilson // 2018-2020
Micheline Maylor // 2016 – 2018
derek beaulieu // 2014 – 2016
Kris Demeanor // 2012 – 2014
Edmonton:
Nisha Patel // 2019 – present
Ahmed “Knowmadic” Ali // 2017-2019
Pierrette Requier // 2015 – 2017
Mary Pinkoski// 2013 – 2015
Anna Marie Sewell // 2011 – 2012
Roland Pemberton // 2006 – 2011
E.D. Blodgett // 2007 – 2009
Alice Major // 2005 – 2007
Saskatchewan Provincial Poet Laureate:
Bruce Rice // 2019 – present
Alasdair Rees // Youth Poet Laureate // 2019 – present
Brenda Schmidt // 2017-2018
Gerald Hill // 2016 – 2017
Judith Krause // 2014 – 2015
Donald Kerr // 2011 – 2013
Robert Currie // 2007 – 2010
Lousie B. Halfe // 2005 – 2006
Glen Sorestad // 2000 – 2004
Moose Jaw
Robert Currie & Gary Hyland // Lifetime Poets Laureate
Winnipeg:
Di Brandt // 2017-present
Provincial Poet Laureate
Randall Adjei // 2021 – 2023
Barrie:
Victoria Butler // 2018 – present
Damian Lopes // 2014 – present
Brantford:
John B Lee // granted in 2005 in perpetuity
Cobalt:
Ann Margetson
Cobourg:
Jessica Outram // 2019 – 2022
Ted Amsden // 2011 – 2018
Jill Battson // 2009 – 2011
Eric Winter // 1997 – 2009
Dufferin County:
Harry Posner // 2017-present
Emery:
Laurence Hutchman // 2018 – present
Kingston:
Jason Heroux // 2019 – present
Helen Humphreys // 2015 – 2019
Eric Folsom // 2011 – 2015
London:
Tom Cull // 2016 – present
Penn Kemp // 2011 – 2013
Mississauga:
Paul Edward Costa // 2019 – 2021
Pujita Verma // Youth Poet Laureate // 2018 – 2020
Wali Shah // 2017 – 2019
Rebecca Zseder // Youth Poet Laureate // 2016 – 2018
Anna Yin // 2015 – 2017
Norfolk County
John B. Lee // granted in 2011 in perpetuity
Ottawa:
Margaret Michèle Cook (French) & Diana Young (English) // 2019 – 2021
Andrée Lacelle (French) & Jamaal Jackson Rogers (English) // 2017 – 2019
Catherine Ahearn // 1981-1984
Cyril Dabydeen // 1984-1987
Patrick White // 1987-1990
Owen Sound:
Richard-Yves Sitoski // 2019 – 2021
Lauren Best // 2017-2019
Rob Rolfe & Larry Jensen // 2015 – 2017
Terry Burns // 2013 – 2014
Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm // 2011 – 2012
Kristan Anderson // 2008 – 2010
Liz Zetlin // 2007 – 2008
Sudbury:
Chloé LaDuchesse // 2018 – 2020
Kim Fahner // 2016 – 2018
Thomas Leduc // 2014 – 2015
Daniel Aubin // 2012 – 2013
Roger Nash // 2010 – 2011
Toronto:
A. F. Moritz // 2019 – 2022
Anne Michaels // 2016 – 2019
George Elliott Clarke // 2012 – 2015
Dionne Brand // 2009 – 2012
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco // 2004 – 2009
Dennis Lee // 2001 – 2004
Windsor:
Mary Ann Mulhern // 2019 – 2022
Samantha Badaoa (Youth Poet Laureate) // 2019 – 2020
Marty Gervais // 2011 – 2019, Poet Laureate Emeritus
Woodstock:
Barry C. Butson // in perpetuity
Montreal
Bertrand Laverdure // 2015 – 2017
Fredericton:
Jenna Lyn Albert 2019 – 2021
Ian Letourneau, 2016 – 2018
Moncton:
Kayla Geitzler (Anglophone) 2019 – Present
Jean-Philippe Raiche (Francophone) 2019 – Present
Sackville:
Shoshanna Wingate //2019 – 2021
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Marilyn Lerch // 2013 – 2017
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Douglas Lochead // 2002 – 2011
PEI Provincial Poet Laureate:
Julie Pellissier-Lush // 2019 – present
Deidre Kessler // 2016 – 2019
Diane Hicks Morrow // 2013 – 2016
Hugh MacDonald // 2009 – 2013
David Helwig // 2008 – 2009
Frank Ledwell // 2004 – 2007
John Smith // 2002 – 2004
Cape Breton:
Rita Joe (1932 – 2007)
Lifetime “Poet Laureate of the Mi’kmaq people”
Halifax:
Dr. Afua Cooper // 2018 – 2020
Rebecca Thomas // 2016 – 2018
El Jones // 2013 – 2015
Tanya Davis // 2011 – 2012
Shauntay Grant // 2009 – 2011
Lorri Neilsen Glenn // 2005 – 2009
Sue MacLeod // 2001 – 2005
St. John’s:
Mary Dalton // 2019 – 2020
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George Murray // 2014 – 2017
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Tom Dawe // 2010 – 2013
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Agnes Walsh // 2006 – 2009
Yukon Provincial Poet Laureate:
pj johnson // 1994 – present