In this, her fourth collection, St. Francis Xavier University professor Jeanette Lynes gives us a poetic biography of 1960s diva Dusty Springfield. Lynes is perhaps best known as a funny writer, and while It’s Hard ... Read More »
October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Poetry
Victoria-based poet, professor, essayist, and translator Eric Miller is a rare thing in a literary culture dominated by cynicism and irony: a poet of baroque extravagance, soaring vision, and sonorous rhetoric. In previous collections, this ... Read More »
September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Poetry
There is a line from Adam Getty’s Gerald Lampert Award-winning first poetry collection, Reconciliation, that encapsulates one of his larger thematic concerns: “There// is nothing human here but the usual/ grinding beneath the wheel.” ... Read More »
September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Poetry
The debut collection of Toronto-based poet and karate instructor Domenico Capilongo has most of the components typical of first collections: family stories, personal lyrics, travel poems, and a handful of what can only be described ... Read More »
August 28, 2008 | Filed under: Poetry
Randomness is central to Toronto writer Kevin Connolly’s poetics. In his previous collection, the Trillium-winning drift, the poems were arranged alphabetically, as if to say that order is irrelevant. In Revolver’s table of contents, titles ... Read More »
August 28, 2008 | Filed under: Poetry
In his debut collection, twentysomething Nova Scotian poet Jacob McArthur Mooney channels the raw and uneasy energy of adolescence. It’s tempting to read the book as autobiography. The poems have all the elements of a ... Read More »
August 28, 2008 | Filed under: Poetry
Forage, Rita Wong’s second collection, is poetry that attacks modern power politics and attempts to modernize traditional poetics without stripping them of their value. These are poems that find their voice in the didactic. Indeed, ... Read More »
March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Poetry
Orphic Politics is the seventh collection from Victoria-based poet Tim Lilburn, the first since his GG-winning Kill-Site. In this new book, he sings his traditional eco-mystical preoccupations in what has become his signature style. Lilburn ... Read More »
March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Poetry
Night Work, the second book from Memorial University professor Randall Maggs, is a biography-in-poems of legendary NHL goaltender Terry Sawchuk. It’s a book that was clearly a long time in the writing, excerpts from it ... Read More »
March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Poetry
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