Killing Things

John Degen’s 2000 poetry debut, The Animal Life of Budapest, was a slim, strong evocation of a very particular city and its discontents. Killing Things pursues his fascination with place, stopping in London, New York, ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

The Fat Kid

By Paul Vermeersch

For his second collection of poetry, Toronto poet and editor Paul Vermeersch writes, in a linear series of narrative poems, the life story of a fat kid’s battle with anorexia. The kid of the title ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Simple Master

By Alice Burdick

Don’t let the title fool you: this debut collection by Toronto poet Alice Burdick is anything but simple. The book is quartered into segments that seem to lend a menu-like efficiency to its consumption. The ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Helsinki Drift

By Douglas Burnet Smith

Anyone who has ever traveled, especially into a country with a vastly different culture, knows that an exploration of their native poetry is essential. The next best approach is to read a book like Douglas ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Small Arguments

By Souvankham Thammavongsa

The short poems in Small Arguments are tender snapshots of nature’s often overlooked bounty. No verbal flab invades the images as the poetry magically explores the essence and personality of objects we rarely equate with ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Excessive Love Prostheses

By Margaret Christakos

Margaret Christakos quotes fellow poet Lola Lemire Tostevin in the prologue to Excessive Love Prostheses: “the amputated/truncated text/follows an imaginary line/and grows/extravagant.” Reading the poems that follow, I would have to place the word “sometimes” ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Cartography and Walking

By Adam Dickinson

Too often young poets embark on their first book as casually as they’d submit to a first date: with little to lose and seemingly nothing better to do that night. So it can feel like ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

On Every Stone

By Rachel Vigier

In her first collection of poetry, On Every Stone, Rachel Vigier explores the meaning of disappearance as she reflects on the life and loss of her sister, Micheline, who disappeared October 9, 1988. But the ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Shaken by Physics

By John MacKenzie

In his second collection of poetry, Shaken by Physics, East Coast writer John MacKenzie employs the language of science, religion, philosophy, and grammar to shake up our understanding of the landscapes we occupy and that ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Mycological Studies

By Jay Millar

Like the avant-garde musician and writer John Cage, Toronto poet and small-press publisher Jay Millar finds mushrooms fascinating (hence his title, Mycological Studies). Mushrooms offer Millar a tempting metaphor for language and the writing process. ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

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