Review of Keith Garebian’s “Pieces of My Self”
By David Bateman Pieces of My Self by Keith Garebian Guernica Editions (2023) From the mauve velvet of his mother’s most stylish evening gown, to the sights and sounds of…
Review of Paul Zits’ “I Wish I Could Be Peter Falk”
By Vincent Potter I Wish I Could Be Peter Falk by Paul Zits University of Calgary Press (2022) Paul Zits opens this collection with the perfect dedication: “for Me (&…
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…
Review of “You Look Good For Your Age: An Anthology”
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…
Review of Tomson Highway’s “Permanent Astonishment”
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…
Review of Bren Simmers’ “If, When”
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. /…
Interview with Yusuf Saadi
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,…
Interview with Victoria Chang
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…
Interview with Tracy K. Smith
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
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…