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Poetry

Pause for Breath

By Robyn Sarah

In her 2007 collection of critical writings, Little Eurekas, Robyn Sarah cites the Canada Council’s definition of a collection of poetry, which states that it must contain more than 48 pages, as being detrimental to ... Read More »

December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry

Meniscus

By Shane Neilson

Despite the fact that Shane Neilson has been writing and publishing poetry for some time, Meniscus is his first trade book of poems. It combines previously unpublished writing with material from earlier publications, such as ... Read More »

December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry

Hymn

By John Barton

To borrow from Robert Frost, something there is in Hymn that doesn’t love a full stop. The majority of the poems in this book are written in a headlong, breathless manner, with nary a period ... Read More »

October 16, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry

Track & Trace

By Zachariah Wells

Born on Prince Edward Island, currently based in Halifax, frequent Q&Q contributor Zachariah Wells is a Maritime poet of direct speech and muscular lexicon, both of which can be counted among the legacies of fellow ... Read More »

October 16, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry

Lisa Robertson’s Magenta Soul Whip

By Lisa Robertson

Ex-Vancouverite Lisa Robertson’s eighth book is classified as poetry, but is no straightforward volume of lyrics. It also contains “essays, confessions, reports, translations, drafts, treatises, laments and utopias” written between 1995 and 2007. Robertson’s work ... Read More »

April 29, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry

Expressway

By Sina Queyras

In her first book of poems since her collection Lemon Hound, Montreal-based Sina Queyras employs the Romantic tradition of pastoral poetry to create passionate indictments of our consumerist, car-obsessed culture and our fast-lane mentality. In ... Read More »

April 29, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry