Pamela Porter’s fourth book of poetry has focus and form that results from her maturity as an artist; the poet’s confident voice and finely crafted stanzas command the reader’s attention as much as her subject ... Read More »
April 12, 2012 | Filed under: Poetry
The new collection from Toronto poet Walid Bitar is a suite of dramatic monologues that find their genesis in the author’s experiences in North America and the Middle East. The narrative voice fans out to ... Read More »
April 12, 2012 | Filed under: Poetry
Steven Price’s second book of poetry, following the Gerald Lampert Award winner Anatomy of Keys (2006), is a clever mix of ancient and modern. Omens in the Year of the Ox delves into mythology, retelling ... Read More »
April 12, 2012 | Filed under: Poetry
While it’s true that acclaimed poet Roo Borson has always been a traveller and imagist in the spirit of the ancient Eastern poets, her 2004 collection, A Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida (which won the ... Read More »
April 12, 2012 | Filed under: Poetry
George Murray kicks off his fifth book of poetry with “Dante’s Shepherd,” which revisits Canto XXIV, 1–15 of the Inferno and, in so doing, reveals not only his subject matter but also his formal approach ... Read More »
April 12, 2012 | Filed under: Poetry
Robin Durnford’s debut collection guts the praise-song quality of nature poetry’s more traditional iterations in favour of a voice that is unafraid of tackling torment, loss, and the ebb and flow of nature’s sublimity. The ... Read More »
April 12, 2012 | Filed under: Poetry
The poem “Explorer’s Notes,” from A.F. Moritz’s follow-up to his 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize–winning collection, The Sentinel, begins, “I came to another ruin and fell into a dream.” The dream Moritz is writing out of, ... Read More »
April 12, 2012 | Filed under: Poetry
Prolific poet and translator Erín Moure’s latest book is a work of procedural poetry about the ways familial language and trauma reside in the body. The poems employ diverse tactics and approaches, including palimpsest, memoir, ... Read More »
April 9, 2012 | Filed under: Poetry
Montreal native Julie Bruck’s third collection of poems is also her first since 1999. The intervening years have seen seismic shifts in aesthetics, but Bruck, now based in San Francisco, has produced a timely reminder ... Read More »
March 26, 2012 | Filed under: Poetry
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