BOOK REVIEWby LINZEY CORRIDON POETRYONTARIO REVIEWS CALIFORNIAA Brief History of Infidels HOW BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE AREa pothi by AYAZ PIRANI[Guelph: Gordon Hill Press, 2022, $20.00] “All my ancestors are stone-faced” responds the speaker to the question Where are you from?, the title of one of the entries in Ayaz Pirani’s third work of poetry. Stone-faced, rigid, … Continue reading Book Review: Linzey Corridon / Ayaz Pirani
“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
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
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 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
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
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