Review of Blaine Newton’s “Rag Pickers”
By Vivian Hansen Rag Pickers by Blaine Newton University of Calgary Press (2025) Thomas Trofimuk’s blurb offered me a guiding question on this review of Ragpickers: “I found myself re-reading…
Review of Tolu Oloruntoba’s “Unravel”
By Catherine Owen Unravel by Tolu Oloruntoba Penguin Random House (2025) Unravel is a poetry of serious sonority, worthy of engraving on stone: lyrical, political, historical, scholarly, poems solemnly proud…
Review of Aisha Sasha John’s “Total”
By Catherine Owen Total by Aisha Sasha John McClelland and Stewart (2025) Performative poetry, page-bound, retains its power, but also establishes a yearning. As essentially a transcription, it makes the…