“Tell me a story,” my dad would say, walking down the path. It could be fall, or spring, winter, or summer – we walked all over the place, at any time, given any opportunity. “But what should it be about?” I was overwhelmed … Continue reading Twenty Migrations • by Renessa Visser
BOOK REVIEWS by TAMAR RUBINPORTRAITS:VEGETABLE, ANIMAL AND MUSICAL WINNIPEG REVIEWSFREDERICTON, CALGARY, & HALIFAX MATTHEW WALSH’SThese are not the potatoes of my youth[Fredericton: icehouse poetry – Goose Lane Editions, 2019. $19.95] JIM NASON’SRooster, Dog, Crow[Calgary: Frontenac House Poetry, 2018. $19.95] GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE’SPortia White: A Portrait in Words[Halifax: Nimbus Publishing House Poetry, 2019. $21.95] Mathew Walsh … Continue reading Book Reviews: Rubin / Walsh / Nason / Clarke
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 REVIEWS by GARY BARWIN FOLKTALES, TREES AND EMPTY BOWLS: HAMILTON REVIEWS NEW BRUNSWICK MATTHEW GWATHMEY’S Our Latest in Folktales [Brick Books, 2019, $20.00] SANDRA BUNTING’S Identified in Trees [Marram Press, 2015, $14.99] M. TRAVIS LANE’S A Tent, A Lantern, An Empty Bowl [Palimpsest Press, 2019, SALE: $15.16] Matthew Gwathmey’s first book, Our Latest in … Continue reading Book Reviews: Barwin / Gwathmey / Bunting / M. Travis Lane
Everybody In (*a sonnet to Isolation* courtesy of covid-19) by LEO DRAGTOE Everybody In (*a sonnet to Isolation* courtesy of covid-19) When all the rhythm of the crooked day is mangled by contagious circumstance when all the broken minutes fade away and moments melt together in a trance- of solitude and singleness and space … Continue reading covid-19 • Poetry by Leo Dragtoe
TWO POEMS by LEO DRAGTOE Don’t Go Out across the bridge when darkness comes to meet you erasing day to leave no trace of light- sometimes it feels like life knows how to cheat you sometimes it seems tomorrow’s out of sight don’t let the parlor jive begin to swamp you don’t kill your … Continue reading Poetry • by Leo Dragtoe
BOOK REVIEWS by AMY LeBLANC WHERE WE ARE COMING FROM AND WHERE WE ARE HEADED: CALGARY REVIEWS LONDON KEVIN HESLOP’S there is no minor violence just as there is no negligible cough during an aria [Victoria: Frog Hollow Press, 2019, $15.00] DAVID BARRICK’S Incubation Chamber [Toronto: Anstruther Press, 2019, $10.00] MADELINE BASSNETT’S Under the Gamma … Continue reading Book Reviews: LeBlanc / Heslop / Barrick / Bassnett
BOOK REVIEW by JAMES M. FISHER INEVITABILITY AND EXILE AS ARCHIVE: MIRAMICHI REVIEWS HAMILTON PAUL LISSON’S The Perfect Archive [Oakville: Guernica Editions, 2019, $20.00] Paul Lisson’s The Perfect Archive is an unusual work in that he uses his professional skills as a librarian and archivist to create a work of mystique that is strange and … Continue reading Book Review: James M. Fisher / Paul Lisson
BOOK REVIEWS by MADELINE BASSNETT LAYERED TRANSFORMATIONS: LONDON REVIEWS OTTAWA MICHAEL DENNIS’ Bad Engine: New + Selected Poems [Vancouver: Anvil, 2017, $28.00] JENNY HAYSOM’S Dividing the Wayside [Kingsville: Palimpsest, 2018, SALE PRICE: $15.16] DOMINIK PARISIEN’S We, Old Young Ones [Victoria: Frog Hollow, 2019, $14.00] If Ottawa poets Michael Dennis, Jenny Haysom, and Dominik Parisien are … Continue reading Book Reviews: Bassnett / Dennis / Haysom / Parisien
BOOK REVIEW by MATTHEW GWATHMEY FINDING THE LYRIC IN THE CRUCIALLY: FREDERICTON REVIEWS HAMILTON GARY BARWIN’S For It Is a PLEASURE and a SURPRISE to Breathe: new & selected POEMS [Hamilton: Wolsak & Wynn, 2019, $25.00] Flipping through this book to peer at what lay inside, I immediately knew I was in for more than … Continue reading Book Review: Matthew Gwathmey / Gary Barwin
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