Review of Wendy Donawa’s “Our Bodies’ Unanswered Questions”
By Angeline Schellenberg Our Bodies’ Unanswered Questions by Wendy Donawa Frontenac House Poetry (2021) “Is it bravado or just cheap grace, / hoping anything can be borne / if sung…
By Angeline Schellenberg Our Bodies’ Unanswered Questions by Wendy Donawa Frontenac House Poetry (2021) “Is it bravado or just cheap grace, / hoping anything can be borne / if sung…
By Annie Wesko You Look Good For Your Age: An Anthology Rona Altrows, Editor University of Alberta Press (2021) This is a brilliant collection of women’s writing about aging, some…
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…
By Catherine Graham Catherine Graham: Congratulations on being shortlisted for the 2021 International Griffin Poetry Prize along with Yi Lei and Changtai Bi for My Name Will Grow Wide Like…
The Quiet in Me: An Interview with Lorna Crozier by Rosemary Griebel Patrick Lane was revered as one of Canada’s most prolific and influential poets. When he died in 2019…
An Interview with Anne Sorbie and Heidi Grogan by Sharon Berg (M)othering: An Anthology Edited by Anne Sorbie and Heidi Grogan Inanna Publications (2022) Sharon Berg: First, thank you both…
By Bret Crowle Transcribing Moonlight by Skylar Kay Frontenac House (2022) Skylar Kay’s debut collection Transcribing Moonlight is a delicate and transcendental glimpse into the world of identity. Authenticity leaches…