For a first book, Gun Dogs is assured and mature, clearly the product of a lengthy and well-spent apprenticeship. James Langer is one of several Canadian poets, including Steven Price, Matt Rader, and Joe Denham, ... Read More »
March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry
Rocksalt, “the first anthology of British Columbia poetry since 1977,” as it’s billed in co-editor Harold Rhenisch’s introductory remarks, includes the work of 108 contemporary Canadian poets who lay some claim to being from our ... Read More »
March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry
It’s been almost two years since Margaret Avison, one of Canada’s most significant poets, died. Now that her “last poems” have been published, we can stop wondering what she left on her desk. Books of ... Read More »
March 16, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry
In The World’s Wife, contemporary Scottish poet Carol Ann Duffy created feminist subversions of a male-centric tradition by giving voice to the wives of significant male figures, both fictional and actual. Carolyn Smart attempts something ... Read More »
February 18, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry
Few contemporary poets have achieved the feat that Molly Peacock has: to attract a base of readers who would not ordinarily read poetry. With her first five collections, she has managed to span the gap ... Read More »
February 18, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry
The Book Collector is Edmonton-based poet Tim Bowling’s eighth collection. Add to that three novels, a collection of interviews edited by him, and the 2007 memoir The Lost Coast, and you’ve got one industrious writer. ... Read More »
January 19, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry
In an introductory note coyly entitled “Directions,” George Elliott Clarke explains the self-indulgent premise of his latest book of poetry. I & I links “phrases and images cannibalized […] from adolescent inklings.” It is the ... Read More »
January 19, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry
What Stirs is the seventh collection from Toronto-based poet and teacher Margaret Christakos. While there are a few individual poems in the book, this is primarily a set of sequences. Christakos employs an unspecified roster ... Read More »
December 11, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry
Despite my abiding conviction that a moratorium should be placed on poems about Glenn Gould (whose frequent appearance in Canadian poetry has made him into something of a verse cliché), I feel bound to admit ... Read More »
November 24, 2008 | Filed under: Poetry
Contact us via email
