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 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
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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