BOOK REVIEWby ROBERT COLMAN POETRYNEWMARKET REVIEWS WINNIPEG TAMAR RUBIN’STablet Fragments[Winnipeg: Signature Editions, 2020, $17.95] Most of my favourite lyric poetry involves poems that propose broad but endlessly relevant questions. E.g., What do we carry with us of our years of experience? How do we witness our lives and of those who touch us? And how … Continue reading Book Review: Robert Colman / Tamar Rubin
BOOK REVIEWby DANNY JACOBS CHTHONIC TRANSCENDENCENEW BRUNSWICK REVIEWS ONTARIO RICHARD GAVIN’SGrotesquerie[Pickering: Undertow Publications, 2020, $20.Cover Art: Mike Davis.] Descents In a recent interview, Richard Gavin discussed the importance of “katabasis” to his work – an ancient Greek concept that suggests a journey downward, often to the underworld. Grotesquerie, Gavin’s latest collection of dark fiction, draws … Continue reading Book Review: Danny Jacobs / Richard Gavin
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
BOOK REVIEW NUMBER 6 I’M GOING TO TELL YOU A STORY ABOUT A BOOK Daniel Coleman and In Bed with the Word (BOOK REVIEW) BY JEREMY LUKE HILL I’m going to tell you a story about a book. A few months ago I attended a reading at The Bookshelf, an independent bookseller in Guelph. I didn’t … Continue reading Letters • Daniel Coleman / Jeremy Luke Hill
BOOK REVIEW by JEFFERY DONALDSON Shane Neilson’s Poker Face: The Manifesto of Fervourism The Manifesto of Fervourism by Shane Neilson [A Ryga Chapbook, Okanagan College, 2015.] From HA&L issue 8.2 Shane Neilson’s The Manifesto of Fervourism left me with one preoccupying question: At what point does a poker face become a form of disguised tongue-in-cheek? In short, … Continue reading Review • Jeffery Donaldson / Shane Neilson
BOOK REVIEW by JOHN NYMAN The Ashes of Movement: Shane Neilson’s The Fervourist Manifesto The Manifesto of Fervourism by Shane Neilson [A Ryga Chapbook, Okanagan College, 2015.] From HA&L issue 8.2 Fire burns out. But that’s no reason not to start one. Fire and its blood cousins (the hearth, the heart, heat) are … Continue reading Review • John Nyman / Shane Neilson
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Hi everyone, It’s been a while since my last update! Over the last few months I’ve spent time in London (the real one), Beirut, New York City, and Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and I have certainly brought back some stories. At Cornell I had the opportunity to talk… Continue reading Reading at The Secret Handshake this Sunday, Danny Jacobs’s review of Players, and an upcoming interview with Michael Prior
James Street North: Hiroshima Day (August 6) by Ellen S. Jaffe Armed with plastic pails of coloured chalk, we enter the evening street of north-end Hamilton, into the August half-light. We take turns lying down, draw our outlines, our shadows, in green and pink and yellow, in memory of lives lost in atomic flash … Continue reading Poetry • by Ellen S. Jaffe
The Shadow Project, 2016 YOU ME GALLERY On August 6 and 9, 1945, atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. The blasts destroyed the cities and killed over 200,000 citizens. People were instantly vaporized. In cooperation with International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) you are invited to take part in this year’s … Continue reading The Shadow Project, 2016 • Hiroshima and Nagasaki
BOOK REVIEW by DANNY JACOBS Praying to Articulate: The Controlled Play of John Nyman’s Players PLAYERS POETRY by John Nyman [Palimpsest Press, 2016] The last thing in John Nyman’s debut collection Players is an artifact (dare I call it a poem?) called “Desk Index”: a 10 page list, double-columned, of seemingly random items. … Continue reading Review • Danny Jacobs / John Nyman
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