Reviewed by Patricia Keeney Blood Rises by David Haskins (Guernica Editions. 2020) At the breathless top of the world along…
Reviewed by Kamal Parmar sfumato by David Stones (Blue Moon Publishing, 2021) In the book sfumato, the poet David…
Canthius celebrates poetry and prose by women, trans men, non-binary, Two-Spirit, genderqueer, and gender non-conforming writers, and these poems were chosen…
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Reviewed by Louise Carson Windfor by Allan Briesmaster, Ekstasis Editions, Victoria, 2021 As I was curious about the origin of…
Reviewed by Josie Di Sciascio-Andrews Sabyasachi Nag. Uncharted. Toronto, Ontario: Mansfield Press, 2020. Whether in the animal kingdom or amongst…
Reviewed by John Robert Colombo Very seldom these days do avid and adventurous readers come across a volume that meets…
Reviewed by Michael Edwards Walking Across The Day by d.n simmers, New Westminster, BC: Silver Bow Publishing, 2020. Vancouver poet…
Reviewed by By Louise Carson The Hammer of Witches by Kelly Rose Pflug-Back, Dagger Editions, 2020 One of the…
Reviewed by Renée M. Sgroi Gianna Patriarca’s latest poetry collection, To the Men Who Write Goodbye Letters (Inanna, 2020) balances…
Review by Kate Marshall Flaherty first published in Verse Afire, January 2021. The Dance Between: Poems About Women by…
Reviewed by Ronnie R. Brown first published in Verse Afire, January 2020. For the Love of Lazaros by Susan…
Reviewed by Jeevan Bhagwat In his debut poetry collection, The Other Life (Mosaic Press, 2021), Patrick Conners takes us on…
Reviewed by Katerina Fretwell A Near Memoir: New Poems, Penn Kemp's elegant chapbook, features her father's portrait of her at…
Reviewed by Marguerite Pigeon “I have compounded another thingamajig,” exclaims Phil Hall partway through his recent collection, Niagara & Government…
Getting Involved with the League: Communications Overview We love to support our members in every way we can! Here is…
Fraser was one of the first supportive people I met in the literary community many years ago. The scene was…
Mick Burrs (Steven Michael Berzensky) 1940 -2021 For more than three decades we would run into each other at poetry…
Heather was a fine and caring person, a wonderful poet, a light of shining energy. I'll certainly miss her…
Reviewed by Louise Carson We know right away after reading the first poem of In the Shadow of Vimy that…
The League of Canadian poets stands in mourning alongside Indigenous communities as they grieve the lives of 215 children whose bodies were found buried at the site of the…
Reviewed by Kate Rogers The poems in Khashayar Mohammadi’s new poetry collection, Me, You, Then Snow, skillfully evoke the…
Congratulations to the Winner of the 2021 Pat Lowther Memorial Award: Noor Naga – Washes, Prays (McClelland & Stewart)! Thank…
Congratulations to the Winner of the 2021 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award: Bertrand Bickersteth – The Response of Weeds (NeWest Press)!…
Congratulations to the Winner of the 2021 Raymond Souster Award: Ian Williams – Word Problems (Coach House)! Thank you to…
The League of Canadian Poets is proud to present the 2021 Book Awards Winners, including the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award,…
reviewed by Pat Connors There are certain canonical books to which I always return, as they have an almost scriptural…
Reviewed by John Vardon Ever since my mother died almost two years ago, memories of her surface into consciousness at…
We asked the poets longlisted for the 2021 Book Awards some questions about their writing lives, inspirations and -of course…
by Emily Schimp for National Poetry Month 2021 Coconut by Nisha Patel (April 2021, NeWest Press) Canadian National Slam Champion,…