The April issue of Q&Q celebrates Poetry Month with reviews of 10 new collections.
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- In her review of <i>White Piano</i>, Natalie Zina Walschots writes that Nicole Brossard's language is by turns powerful and quivering (as the section titled 'Quivering' might suggest), and characterized by a transformative vitality.<br /> <br /> <a HREF="http://www.quillandquire.com/reviews/review.cfm?review_id=7969">Read the review.</a>
- White Piano, Nicole Brossard; Robert Majzels and ErÃn Moure, trans. (Coach House Books)
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- In her starred review of Michael Crummey's new collection, Liz Worth writes, "Tender but also at times chilling, <i>Under the Keel</i> contains all the tension and anticipation that may be found in the moment before a first kiss or a fall off a ledge. The faces it conjures are hauntingly engaging, and the sentiments it conveys echo long after the end has been reached."<br /> <br /> <a HREF="http://www.quillandquire.com/reviews/review.cfm?review_id=7965"> Read the review.</a>
- Under the Keel, Michael Crummey (House of Anansi)
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- In her starred review, Safa Jinje writes, "A single-thread narrative of the African-Canadian experience has long been sewn into the margins of Canadian history, resulting in a legacy of misappropriated cultures and residual resentments that has left generations of black Canadians voiceless. <i>The Great Black North</i> emerges from this period of reticence to weave an intricate tapestry that is national in identity and universal in scope."<br /> <br /> <a HREF="http://www.quillandquire.com/reviews/review.cfm?review_id=7967">Read the review.</a>
- The Great Black North: Contemporary African Canadian Poetry, Valerie Mason-John and Kevan Anthony Cameron, eds. (Frontenac House)
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- A poet with a low profile but three previous collections, Jacqueline Turner's <i>The Ends of the Earth</i> is concerned with some kind of nebulous apocalypse that's part environmental, part technological, writes Stevie Howell in her review. <br /> <br /> <a HREF="http://www.quillandquire.com/reviews/review.cfm?review_id=7968">Read the review.</a>
- The Ends of the Earth, Jacqueline Turner (ECW Press)
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- "Lorna Goodison's ninth book of poetry stands as a powerful testament to her reputation as one of the Caribbean's most celebrated poets," writes Maria Gergin in her starred review.<br /> <br /> <a Href="http://www.quillandquire.com/reviews/review.cfm?review_id=7966">Read the review.</a>
- Supplying Salt and Light, Lorna Goodison (McClelland & Stewart)
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- In his review of Anne Carson's sort-of sequel to <i>Autobiography of Red</i>," <i>Q&Q</i> review editor Steven W. Beattie writes that <i>Red Doc></i>'s narrative style resembles the stream-of-consciousness employed by the high modernists; Carson recalls Proust explicitly on numerous occasions. But the transitions often feel arbitrary.<br /> <br /> <a HREF="/review/red-doc/">Read the review.</a>
- Red Doc>, Anne Carson (McClelland & Stewart)
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- In her review of <i>Masham Means Evening</i>, Nico Mara-McKay writes, These are narrative poems that speak of Dawson's military experiences, and the people and situations she encountered. The poems move forward with a quiet insistence, never shrinking from how brutal life can be or the vicious humour soldiers employ to deflect the horror of war."<br /> <br /> <a HREF="http://www.quillandquire.com/reviews/review.cfm?review_id=7973">Read the review.</a>
- Masham Means Evening, Kanina Dawson (Coteau Books)
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- In her review of Jacob Scheier's collection, Stevie Howell writes, As uneven as <i>Letter from Brooklyn</i> is, it is honest about love and loss in ways that are wise. Some of the most successful pieces, such as 'Actual Pingpong' and '1989,' are about parents, expectations, and loss.<br /> <br /> <a HREF="http://www.quillandquire.com/reviews/review.cfm?review_id=7968">Read the review.</a>
- Letter from Brooklyn, Jacob Scheier (ECW Press)
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- The collection's surface accessibility and consistency of form set it apart from the more fragmented, deliberately opaque work of a number of contemporary poets. <i>For as Far as the Eye Can See</i> offers a beautiful, meditative comment on our not entirely new millennium, Jason Wiens writes in his starred review. <br /> <br /> <a HREF="http://www.quillandquire.com/reviews/review.cfm?review_id=7971">Read the review.</a>
- For as Far as the Eye Can See, Robert Melançon; Judith Cowan, trans. (Biblioasis)
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- The publishing history of the collection is unusual and interesting, George Fetherling writes in his review of <i>Exile at Last</i>. Rosenfarb wrote a few poems in English (published here for the first time), but usually wrote in Yiddish and then translated the work into her adopted language. In several cases, the translator's function has been performed by the poet's daughter (also the volume's editor), Goldie Morgentaler, a literary scholar at the University of Lethbridge. She has edited the collection “ a moving testament to the human spirit “ with daughterly affection and professional precision."<br /> <br /> <a HREF="http://www.quillandquire.com/reviews/review.cfm?review_id=7972">Read the review.</a>
- Exile at Last: Selected Poems, Chava Rosenfarb; Goldie Morgentaler, ed. (Guernica Editions)
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