“The trail is a circle / The cure is a forest.” With these incantatory words, Desi Di Nardo propels readers on a journey that sees nature anew – a journey that does not soar above ... Read More »
July 26, 2011 | Filed under: Poetry
Inspired in part by the 1998 crash of Swiss-air Flight 111 offshore of Nova Scotia, Jacob McArthur Mooney’s second collection examines human tragedy and the limits of community. Folk undertakes an intelligent effort to reject ... Read More »
May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Poetry
Over time, various art projects have sprung out of new technologies, and this new effort from poets Bill Kennedy and Darren Wershler must have been enormously fun to generate. In much the same vein as ... Read More »
May 11, 2011 | Filed under: Poetry
Ken Babstock sprinkled a few of the poems collected in Methodist Hatchet in journals across Canada. These poems were alternately baffling and amazing, and many of them contained aphorisms that will be mined – rightly, ... Read More »
May 9, 2011 | Filed under: Poetry
In Goran Simic we have a modern problem: a major writer – Simic is one of the leading poets of his native Bosnia, which he escaped with his family in 1995 – working in the ... Read More »
April 6, 2011 | Filed under: Poetry
Nico Rogers’ collection of prose poems about life in the outport towns of Newfoundland a generation ago has a close precedent in Michael Crummey’s Hard Light (1988), also published by Brick Books. The first half ... Read More »
April 6, 2011 | Filed under: Poetry
Witness is Patrick Lane’s fourth selected poems in about as many decades, and his first since 1997. It includes more recent poems, and some earlier ones that the previous volume excluded. At 96 pages, it’s ... Read More »
April 6, 2011 | Filed under: Poetry
There’s nothing terribly civil about the title poem in Jonathan Bennett’s second collection, which describes a political protest that tumbles headlong into anarchic violence when the “blunt harm of a brick” is thrown at riot ... Read More »
March 21, 2011 | Filed under: Poetry
Gerald Lampert Memorial Award–winning poet and novelist Elisabeth Harvor’s third poetry collection could be loosely described as a book of coming of age poems. Much of it parses childhood for moments of suddenly earned wisdom ... Read More »
January 25, 2011 | Filed under: Poetry
Where We Might Have Been is Don Coles’s 10th collection of poetry. It follows the 2000 collection Kurgan, which won the Trillium Book Award, and marks the climax of a singular reign as one of ... Read More »
January 25, 2011 | Filed under: Poetry
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