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Poetry

Inter Alia

By David Seymour; $, pp.,

Inter Alia is Toronto-based David Seymour’s first book. The first section – a suite of poems that adopts the geological themes and manner of Seymour’s mentor and editor, Don McKay – is rather uninspired. Entitled ... Read More »

January 12, 2006 | Filed under: Poetry

Blue Feast

By Shawna Lemay

In a prefatory note to her third full-length collection, Edmonton writer Shawna Lemay says, “The reader who wants these poems is the reader who understands the complicated joy that is entwined with sadness.” In the ... Read More »

January 12, 2006 | Filed under: Poetry

Deactivated West 100

By Don McKay

Don McKay has won two Governor General’s Awards and has twice been shortlisted for the Griffin Prize. His latest book is a combination of poems and lyrical philosophical prose pieces, a sequel to his justly ... Read More »

November 22, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry

An Oak Hunch

By Phil Hall

An Oak Hunch, the new volume of poetry from Toronto poet Phil Hall, is that rarest of poetic beasts: a poetry book that is not so much a collection as an integral whole, an amalgamation ... Read More »

November 22, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry

Anything but the Moon

By George Sipos

The title of Prince George, B.C., orchestra manager and former bookseller George Sipos’s poetry collection sounds like a rejection of shopworn imagery, and in the title poem he says, “None of that,/the old tune’s played ... Read More »

October 26, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Modern and Normal

By Karen Solie

Toronto-based poet Karen Solie’s sophomore collection goes a long way toward fulfilling the promise augured by her Griffin-nominated rookie hit, Short Haul Engine. Think of all the dichotomous categories into which most contemporary poetry gets ... Read More »

October 11, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry