by JENN CARSON Bow and arrow My eldest son rolls with meon the kitchen’s hardwood floorand I pull him into a bow and arrow choke start to squeeze for the submissionand he groans and giggleshey it’s like being cuddledand then oh no!—eyes widenhe gags—we let golaugh and untangle limbs I roll onto my shouldersstack myself … Continue reading A Poem • Jenn Carson
BOOK REVIEW by RICHARD VAN HOLST SQUALL: POEMS IN THE VOICE OF MARY SHELLEY ANCASTER, ONTARIO REVIEWS TRURO, NOVA SCOTIA Squall: Poems in the Voice of Mary Shelley by CHAD NORMAN [Hamilton: Guernica Editions, 2020, $20.00. Illustrations by judith S bauer.] Chad Norman, a Canadian poet from Truro, Nova Scotia, has been publishing poetry since … Continue reading Book Review: Richard Van Holst / Chad Norman
[the future will be luminous & reckless] by STAN ROGAL [the future will be luminous & reckless] — Paul Lisson a pop-up graphic performance white cubes versus dark streets so we must enumerate, he sd, then, let a leaf’s waxy index of antihistamine by-&-by become an event causality is dimmed there is no perfect archive … Continue reading Poetry • by Stan Rogal
BOOK REVIEW by CARL WATTS POEMS WITHOUT ORGANS WUHAN REVIEWS TORONTO As Far as You Know by A.F. MORITZ [Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 2020, $19.95] In his afterword to Editing Moritz: Correspondence between Shane Neilson and A.F. Moritz during the Editing of Now That You Revive (2007), Moritz compares his writing process with that … Continue reading Book Review: Carl Watts / A.F. Moritz
BOOK REVIEW by AIDAN CHAFE ROBERT COLMAN’S DEMOCRATICALLY APPLIED MACHINE BURNABY REVIEWS NEWMARKET Democratically Applied Machine by ROBERT COLMAN [Windsor: Palimpsest Press, 2020, SALE: $15.16] In his third collection of poems, Democratically Applied Machine, Robert Colman explores industrial and domestic landscapes, as well as his personal identity, amid his father’s onset of Alzheimer’s dementia. … Continue reading Book Review: Aidan Chafe / Robert Colman
BOOK REVIEWS by JOHN NYMAN ACROSS TIME, STYLE, AND GENRE, VIA VANCOUVER ALEX LESLIE’S Vancouver for Beginners [Toronto: Book*hug Press, 2019, $12.99 – $21.00] MATTHEW WALSH’S These are not the potatoes of my youth [Fredericton: Goose Lane Editions • icehouse poetry, 2019, $19.95] bill bissett’s breth / th treez uv lunaria: selektid rare n nu … Continue reading Book Reviews: Nyman / Leslie / Walsh / bissett
BOOK REVIEW by JIM NASON TORONTO REVIEWS VICTORIA QUEER POSITIONS, NAKED PROSE: THE VULNERABLE WE JOHN BARTON’S We Are Not Avatars: Essays, Memoirs, Manifestos [Windsor: Palimpsest Press, 2019, SALE: $15.96] In 2007, along with Billeh Nickerson, John Barton edited Seminal: The Anthology of Canada’s Gay Male Poets. At the time, standing with my … Continue reading Book Review: Jim Nason / John Barton
MESH AND MYTH Poems on Relationship: A suite of ten poems by ELIZABETH TESSIER Keepsakes Sonnet Here’s to the things we store yet in a chest once held dear by our beloved dead. What truths are folded with them in their rest? this ballast that we carry in our head. What once were anchor, … Continue reading Poetry Suite • 1 • by Elizabeth Tessier
MESH AND MYTH Poems on Relationship: A suite of ten poems by ELIZABETH TESSIER Cascades In your backyard in her last summer your mother began a story in the middle, starting with your grandfather rolling the barrow down narrow cobblestones. Made a man with a horse drawn cart and a great-windowed shop near Seven … Continue reading Poetry Suite • 2 • by Elizabeth Tessier
MESH AND MYTH Poems on Relationship: A suite of ten poems by ELIZABETH TESSIER The Jewelry Box for Edith This golden box opens with a shift of a button to release the tongue. It’s not the sort of box she would have bought for herself. Likely a gift from her daughter, the kind of … Continue reading Poetry Suite • 3 • by Elizabeth Tessier
