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Poetry

Exiles Among You

By Kristjana Gunnars

The 72 short pieces that make up B.C. poet Kristjana Gunnars’ Exiles Among You form an extended meditation or book of days, an étude on the nature of grief: “how every day we/say goodbye to ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Water Memory

By Roo Borson

Water Memory, Roo Borson’s brilliant, moody, ninth collection of poetry, offers the reader a very broad tonal variety, from the playful, often joyous poems of “Cloud Music” (the book’s first section) to the desolate, grief-stricken ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Slant

By Andy Quan

The title of this debut poetry collection is an evocative pun on author Andy Quan’s varied perspectives – that of an Asian-Canadian whose eyes are “slanted”; of a gay man whose sensual interest is “bent” ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

The Cheat of Words

By Steve McCaffery

In canto IX of the Inferno, just after we have been titillated and terrified by the Furies, Dante turns to his reader and says: “O ye who have sane intellects for guide/Consider well the doctrines ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Science Lessons

By W.H. New

Past midnight he stands outside, breathing awaythe day, scanning the broad wash of starshorizon to horizon...This quotation from “Astronomy,” one of a sequence of 80 sonnets in W.H. New’s first collection of poetry, entitled Science ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry