Review: Becoming History, A Life Told Through Poetry by Blaine Marchand
Reviewed by David C. Brydges However good the usage of words may be, a poem with nothing to touch the heart is like a wooden doll clad with finery and no feeling. It is much better to express feeling with plain words than no feeling with just fine words. ─ Takuan Soho We skate around…
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Review of Keeping Count by M. Travis Lane
Reviewed by Marguerite Pigeon Keeping Count by M. Travis Lane (Gordon Hill Press, 2021) How can we think about aging and death? As frightening inevitabilities—matters of dread? As processes we’d prefer to wish away or hand over for biomedical oversight (at least in some cultures)? In Keeping Count (Gordon Hill,…
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Being Brave in the Cold by Glennys Egan
Review of Cattail Skyline By Joanne Epp
Reviewed by Michael Edwards Cattail Skyline by Joanne Epp (Turnstone Press) Joanne Epp’s Cattail Skyline (Turnstone Press, 2021) is her second poetry collection. The book is an attentive and intimate poetic treatment of the Canadian prairie landscape. Her poems are immediate and mindful and often steeped in a sense of nostalgia. Though some of…
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Circling by Neall Calvert
Two Voices: A Review of The Blue Moth of Morning by P.C. Vandall
Reviewed by Louise Carson The Blue Moth of Morning by P.C. Vandall, The Porcupine’s Quill, 2020. It wasn’t until I reached the last pages of The Blue Moth of Morning, in the section entitled Stage Four: Moth, that I began to understand the structure and/or intent of the poet and/or editor. Call me slow, but…
Read MoreOne Whose Name Was Water by Ellen Chang-Richardson
Ellen Chang-Richardson (they/her) is an award-winning poet whose multi-genre writing has appeared in Room, third coast magazine, and Watch Your Head, among others. The co-founder of Riverbed Reading Series, founder of Little Birds Poetry, and a member of the poetry collective VII, Ellen currently lives and works on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin…
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