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Poetry

Bizarre Winery Tragedy

By Lyle Neff

Bizarre Winery Tragedy is Vancouver-based literary journalist and fraud investigator Lyle Neff’s third poetry collection. As in his first two books, Neff’s voice is for the most part brash, alert, and inventive, and his subjects ... Read More »

October 11, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry

The Burning Alphabet

By Barry Dempster

The Burning Alphabet is Brick Books editor Barry Dempster’s 10th poetry collection. In it, he renews his exploration of the dominant themes of his recent Selected Poems (sex, death, and the struggle of the individual ... Read More »

October 11, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry

Miraculous Hours

By Matt Rader

B.C. writer Matt Rader’s debut poetry collection is steeped in violence and death. In the space of the first six poems, a bird hits a window, a truck hits a lamppost, a woman hits a ... Read More »

September 15, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry

The Sutler

By Michael Kenyon

B.C. writer Michael Kenyon is the author of three books of fiction. The Sutler is his second collection of poems, but his first work in verse, A Rack of Lamb is a book of prose ... Read More »

July 8, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry

Were the Bees

By Andy Weaver

From traditional formal poetry to free verse, from the lyrical pieces to clever turns of phrase, from experimental verse to plainspoken frankness, there is something to satisfy all tastes in Were the Bees, the debut ... Read More »

July 8, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry

Little Theatres

By Erin Mouré

Avant-garde icon Erin Mouré’s 13th collection is an uneven book. The finest work by far in the collection is in the bilingual (Galician and English) series “Homages to Water.” These poems are elegantly simple and ... Read More »

June 9, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry