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Poetry

By David Waltner-Toews

In The Fat Lady Struck Dumb, his sixth book of poems, David Waltner-Toews convicts himself of “the crime” identified in one of his cheerfully reflective poems: “that a man can still be amateur.” Fortunately Waltner-Toews ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

By Libby Scheier

Libby Scheier’s Kaddish for My Father brings together new and selected material from earlier collections. The first half of the volume includes new poetry and prose commemorating Scheier’s father, who died in 1997, and exploring ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

By Betsy Struthers

In her latest book of poems, poet and mystery novelist Betsy Struthers is standing midstream, mid-career, mid-life, looking at both shores. These are poems of positioning: where to stand in relation, how to carry what ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

By Maureen Hynes

The title poem of Maureen Hynes’s second collection depicts the book as a sort of travel narrative for Amazons: “Some of us wear a piece of the road as an amulet/over our breastbones.” The book’s ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

By Richard Outram

Beginning Dove Legend, the newest collection by award-winning Toronto poet Richard Outram, is a little like entering a foreign language. Outram’s conventional poetic forms and strict rhymes, combined with his use of archaic language, will ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

By Wayne Clifford

While still a University of Toronto student, Wayne Clifford shared the 1967 E.J. Pratt Award with Michael Ondaatje. He was present at the creation of Coach House Press, and has written 10 previous books, including ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

By Don McKay

Much of Don McKay’s work over the last 20 years, collected here in Camber, reconfigures the traditionally lyrical response of a poet to the natural, or non-human, world. Where a Romantic poet might be left ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry