by NEVENA KOVACEVIC My bookshelf The Secret Wife was Left Neglected in The Blue BistroReading The Testaments of Children of Cape HornThe List was long, and she hoped she still had time to Contact The Hangman In The Mirror.Girl, Wash Your Face, the waitress said, you’re losing The Edge of ReasonShe looked up, wondering if … Continue reading A Poem • Nevena Kovacevic
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
BOOK REVIEW by ROBERT NIELSEN GENIUS! A TORTUOUS ROUTE HAMILTON REVIEWS HAMILTON MARILYN GEAR PILLING’S On Huron’s Shore [Bradford, Ontario: Demeter Press, 2005, $32.24] I always wonder how book reviews came to be written. In most cases, they were probably assigned by some editor, and the reviewers may have been paid for their efforts. In … Continue reading Book Review: Robert Nielsen / Marilyn Gear Pilling
BOOK REVIEW by GEOFF MARTIN A DISCERNIBLE TRAIL: ON RE-READING “IN BED WITH THE WORD” SAN FRANCISCO REVIEWS HAMILTON DANIEL COLEMAN’S In bed with the Word [Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2009, $19.95] I first read Daniel Coleman’s In Bed with the Word: Reading, Spirituality, and Cultural Politics aloud in bed, ten years ago this … Continue reading Book Review: Geoff Martin / Daniel Coleman
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