February 9, 2021
Reviewed by Sandra Stephenson Here is a little book I read with a haiku mind. A haiga mind, really, as…
February 9, 2021
Reviewed by Kim Fahner This review was originally published by Prairie Fire, Jan 28, 2020. In the title poem of…
February 9, 2021
Reviewed by John Vardon Originally published by The New Quarterly As a poetry editor for The New Quarterly, I first…
January 27, 2021
Reviewed by Frances Boyle Serve the Sorrowing World With Joy by Meg Freer and Chantel Lavoie (Woodpecker Lane Press,…
January 25, 2021
Reviewed by Josh Quirion My grandmother’s got two vertical freezers so full of food, it’s her house I’m running to…
January 21, 2021
Reviewed by Caroline Morgan Di Giovanni Toronto poet Gianna Patriarca’s new book, To the Men Who Write Goodbye Letters, has…
January 21, 2021
Reviewed by Louise Carson After reading A Beautiful Stone, and then the poem on the back cover – ‘Following the…
December 16, 2020
reviewed by Bob MacKenzie. In firmly holding onto the desire to love and cherish one another we keep faith…
December 9, 2020
Reviewed by Louise Carson. I’d seen a documentary about this woman, a Chicago nanny, born 1926, died 2009, who never…
December 9, 2020
with Kate Marshall Flaherty! This event took place on January 30, 2021. Spontaneous poetry writing is the act of connecting…
December 3, 2020
by Penn Kemp. The Words Festival has been one of London ON’s liveliest cultural events, presented annually since 2014. But…
November 23, 2020
Reviewed by Catherine Morrison DREAM FRAGMENTS is an incredible collection of poems that bring readers into her mind, experiencing the…
November 19, 2020
Reviewed by Marguerite Pigeon. In her last collection, Blue Sonoma (Brick Books, 2014), Jane Munro used dreamscapes and reportage as…
November 11, 2020
Reviewed by Kate Marshall Flaherty Swoon by Elana Wolff. Guernica Editions, 2020, 94 pp, ISBN 978-1-77183-507-7 Elana Wolff explores the…
November 9, 2020
Reviewed by Louise Carson. Straddling the Third Wall: A review of footlights by Pearl Pirie, Radiant Press, Regina, 2020. Hide-dingle.…
October 29, 2020
Reviewed by Crystal Hurdle Lam’s third poetry collection, Odes and Laments, surprisingly sweet, offers an equal measure of elegies and…
October 21, 2020
Review of Forty-One Pages: On Poetry, Language and Wilderness by John Steffler Reviewed by Antony Di Nardo In his…
October 20, 2020
Reviewed by Patrick Connors Gavin Barrett lives a life with many layers of creativity. Much of his service to poetry…
October 8, 2020
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October 6, 2020
Review of The Way History Dries by Keith Inman Reviewed by John B. Lee “Than longen folk to goon on…
September 29, 2020
Reviewed by Louise Carson This was a difficult book to read. Not because the poems are inaccessible, or boring, or…
September 28, 2020
The LCP Feminist Caucus presents: Feminist Caucus in Conversation: a chapbook and audio project from the League of Canadian Poets.…
September 14, 2020
reviewed by Carole Mertz. Kim Goldberg writes surrealistic poetry that sometimes incorporates formal poetic forms. Many of the 60 poems…
September 14, 2020
Reviewed by Louise Carson. I must have been feeling a bit rebellious the morning I picked up Sue Chenette’s recent…
August 28, 2020
Reviewed by Louise Carson. While Claudia Coutu Radmore may not talk “Of shoes and ships – and sealing wax –…
July 27, 2020
Reviewed by Clayton Longstaff two women together alone in the luminous house When you look out your window,…
July 22, 2020
Reviewed by Louise Carson. It was with a sinking feeling in my gut that I started to read Daniela Elza’s…
July 14, 2020
Reviewed by Louise Carson Geography. Do we want poems of a geographical nature? Sure we do, especially in Canada,…