Widely prescribed drugs whose names blend the promise of comfort with cold, technological efficiency – Zoloft, Paxil, Xanax – are even now resculpting the contemporary mindscape. All of this offers promising terrain for Hello Serotonin, ... Read More »
April 12, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
What I Remember From My Time on Earth follows four years after Patricia Young’s Governor General’s Award nomination for More Watery Still. In this new collection, the seventh from the Victoria writer, Young turns her ... Read More »
April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
Al Purdy has published more than 30 volumes of poetry, won two GGs, and received the Order of Canada. For decades reviewers have discussed him, both as a Canadian cultural icon and as a literary ... Read More »
April 3, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
Nadine McInnis’s poetic project is to break through “the shell / that separates us” and reveal the interpenetration of ordinary human lives. This is a vernacular poetry that searches for the links that bind us ... Read More »
March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
In her second collection of poetry, Saskatchewan’s Louise Bernice Halfe continues an exploration of many of the concerns she addressed in her previous book, Bear Bones & Feathers (1994). Blue Marrow is both a celebration ... Read More »
March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
John Steffler was born in Toronto, but his poetic voice ranges far afield in this new collection, his fourth, and first in a decade. From Newfoundland (where he now lives) to southern Ontario and Greece, ... Read More »
March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
It seems to be the general consensus that Don Domanski is a different kind of poet compared with other Canadian poets. To my mind his greatest affinity can be found with the British poet Peter ... Read More »
March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
It’s not unusual for a writer – or indeed a reader – to be obsessed with the life of Alice in Alice in Wonderland (and Through the Looking Glass, of course). My first thought when ... Read More »
March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
The poems in Steven Heighton’s fourth collection cover subjects from mixed tapes to dreamy landscapes, but all are painted with introspection, and all worthy of slow digestion. The Address Book is a portrait of an ... Read More »
March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
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