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Poetry

Letter from Brooklyn

By Jacob Scheier

Some of the best poetry I’ve ever encountered was not on the page, but heard at a spoken-word night at New York City’s Nuyorican Poets Café. I was making a teenage pilgrimage in the sloshed ... Read More »

April 3, 2013 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Supplying Salt and Light

By Lorna Goodison

Lorna Goodison’s ninth book of poetry stands as a powerful testament to her reputation as one of the Caribbean’s most celebrated poets. Supplying Salt and Light reconstructs the Caribbean colonial quest undertaken by 16th-century Spanish ... Read More »

April 3, 2013 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Under the Keel

By Michael Crummey

The term “page turner” is more likely to be associated with mass-market thrillers than books of poetry. But in the case of Under the Keel, Michael Crummey’s first collection in a decade, the phrase suits ... Read More »

April 3, 2013 | Filed under: Poetry

Trobairitz

By Catherine Owen

Poetry and metal collide in the latest offering from prolific Vancouver author and musician Catherine Owen. Here, Owen’s voice sounds off like a wolf in a winter forest: it seems lone and foreboding, but its ... Read More »

February 21, 2013 | Filed under: Poetry

All Souls’

By Rhea Tregebov

Rhea Tregebov opens her seventh poetry collection by telling us about a visitation she had that unexpectedly put an end to a period of literary silence: “You thought all the poems had grown up / ... Read More »

January 3, 2013 | Filed under: Poetry