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Poetry

A Blue with Blood in It

By Elizabeth Philips

A Blue with Blood in It, the latest collection of poetry from award-winning poet Elizabeth Philips, resonates with the rhythms and colours of a prairie landscape. Reminiscent of her fellow Saskatchewan poet Lorna Crozier, Philips ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Parable Beach

By Paddy McCallum

A recent series of television ads promoting B.C. tourism urged viewers to discover “Super. Natural.” Anyone wondering what the advertisers meant could do worse than turn to B.C. poet Paddy McCallum. The four sectionsof his ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Mean

By Ken Babstock

Born in Newfoundland and raised in the Ottawa Valley, Toronto resident Ken Babstock revisits these regions, and the more general region of human nature, in a debut collection of poems as highly accomplished technically as ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

To the River

By Tim Lilburn

Saskatoon poet Tim Lilburn’s work has always been so focused and passionate that reviewing it seems almost like an interruption of someone at prayer. To the River, his fifth collection, and the first since his ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

49th Parallel Psalm

By Wayde Compton

The first title from Advance Editions, a new literary imprint from Vancouver’s Arsenal Pulp Press edited by Michael Turner (Hard Core Logo, American Whiskey Bar), is the debut of Vancouver poet Wayde Compton. 49th Parallel ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Two Bowls of Milk

By Stephanie Bolster

Two Bowls of Milk is the follow-up to Stephanie Bolster’s debut collection of poems, White Stone: The Alice Poems, which won the 1998 Governor General’s Award for poetry. Whereas White Stone was tightly conceived around ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry