Quill and Quire

Poetry

Actualities

By Monica Kidd

George Ellenbogen, a longtime resident of the U.S., is one of those rare Canadian poets better known abroad than at home. Morning Gothic, his selection of new and previously published work, shows just how arbitrary ... Read More »

January 18, 2008 | Filed under: Poetry

The Work of Days

By Sarah Lang

George Ellenbogen, a longtime resident of the U.S., is one of those rare Canadian poets better known abroad than at home. Morning Gothic, his selection of new and previously published work, shows just how arbitrary ... Read More »

January 18, 2008 | Filed under: Poetry

The Real Made Up

By Stephen Brockwell

George Ellenbogen, a longtime resident of the U.S., is one of those rare Canadian poets better known abroad than at home. Morning Gothic, his selection of new and previously published work, shows just how arbitrary ... Read More »

January 18, 2008 | Filed under: Poetry

Two Hemispheres

By Nadine McInnis

Two Hemispheres, Ottawa-based poet Nadine McInnis’s fifth collection, is a chronicle of depression and recovery told from both a personal and a historical viewpoint. McInnis constructs 10 accounts of mental illness based on mid-19th-century photographs ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Poetry

Sitcom

By David McGimpsey

David McGimpsey is a kind of Canadian pop-poetry hero. While his previous collections have been well received, they have also been subject to criticism questioning the relevance of pop-culture verse. Sitcom, McGimpsey’s latest collection, is ... Read More »

December 14, 2007 | Filed under: Poetry

The Door

By Margaret Atwood

After publishing more than 40 books over a writing career that spans more than four decades, Margaret Atwood must be exhausted. In The Door, her first new collection of poems since 1995’s Morning in the ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Poetry