Review of Chris Hutchinson’s “Lost Signal”
By Catherine Owen Lost Signal by Chris Hutchinson Palimpsest Press (2025) If you don’t have an ear for the music of language, why do you write poems? This, the confused…
Review of Kim Fahner’s “The Pollination Field”
By Kathryn MacDonald The Pollination Field by Kim Fahner Turnstone Press (2025) The Pollination Field by Kim Fahner gifts lovers of bees and devotees of folklore (perhaps the first of…
Review of Monica Kidd’s “The Crane”
By Jonathan Greenbaum The Crane by Monica Kidd Breakwater Books (2025) Over the years several Canadian novelists have written about Americans who fled to Canada to evade the draft in…
Review of Bianca Lakoseljac’s “Silence is Full of Sound”
By Carmelo Militano Silence is Full of Sound by Bianca Lakoseljac Ekstasis Editions (2025) “You must be still in order to hear and see.” – Emily Carr Set at the beginning…
Review of Marco Melfi’s “Routine Maintenance”
By Vivian Hansen Routine Maintenance by Marco Melfi Gaspereau Press (2025) Marco Melfi’s debut poetry collection, Routine Maintenance, brings the routine into play as observance – a significant meditation on…
Review of Ian LeTourneau’s “Metadata from a Changing Climate”
Reviewed by Kim Fahner Metadata from a Changing Climate by Ian LeTourneau Gaspereau Press (2025) Reading Ian LeTourneau’s new collection Metadata from a Changing Climate reminds me of the C.S.…
Review of Jun Long Lee’s “Abode”
By Catherine Owen Abode by Jun-long Lee Athabasca University Press (2025) A gorgeously-designed pocket book of mostly prose poems, all untitled, in a surrealist vein, Abode takes the reader on…
Review of Bruce Hunter’s “In the Bear’s House”
By Vivian Hansen In The Bear’s House by Bruce Hunter Frontenac House (2025) I read the first edition of this book in 2009 (Oolichan Books). I believed then, as I…
Review of Jaspreet Singh’s “Dreams of the Epoch & the Rock”
By Tonya Lailey Dreams of the Epoch & the Rock by Jaspreet Singh NeWest Press (2024) In “Dreams of the Epoch & the Rock”, Jaspreet Singh considers a vast range…
Review of Armand Garnet Ruffo’s “The Dialogues: The Song of Francis Pegahmagabow”
By Kathryn MacDonald The Dialogues: The Song of Francis Pegahmagabow by Armand Garnet Ruffo Nishannbemwin translations by Brian D. McInnes Wolsak & Wynn Publishers (2024) Here is a story that…