By Shelley McAneeley Permanent Astonishment: a Memoir by Tomson Highway Penguin Random House Canada (2021) Perhaps the words, “permanent astonishment,” are the best words to describe Tomson Highway because what…
By Angeline Schellenberg If, When by Bren Simmers Gaspereau Press (2021) The first poem in Bren Simmers’ new collection ends “You’re not in an ambulance / speeding towards emergency. /…
By Catherine Graham Catherine Graham: Congratulations on being shortlisted for the 2021 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize for your debut collection Pluviophile (Nightwood Editions). A searching quality runs through these poems,…
By Catherine Graham Catherine Graham: Congratulations on being shortlisted for the 2021 International Griffin Poetry Prize for OBIT (Copper Canyon Press). The book has around 70 obits, plus sonnets and…