Review of Kathryn MacDonald’s “The Blue Gate”
By Beth Everest The Blue Gate by Kathryn MacDonald Frontenac House Poetry (2026) From the very first poem in Kathryn MacDonald’s latest book The Blue Gate, the poet held me,…
Review of Jennifer Bowering Delisle’s “Stock”
By Frances Boyle Stock by Jennifer Bowering Delisle Coach House Books (2025) We’ve all seen those smiling faces. Impossibly joyful families, mother impeccably groomed as she serves weekday breakfasts or…
Review of Conor Mc Donnell’s “What We Know So Far Is… “
By Kathryn MacDonald What We Know So Far Is… by Conor Mc Donnell Wolsak and Wynn (2025) Conor Mc Donnell has published two poetry collections and three chapbooks and now…
Review of Sheri-D Wilson’s “The Oneironaut 02”
By Mary Vlooswyk The Oneironaut 02 by Sheri-D Wilson Write Bloody North (2025) The Oneironaut 02 by Sheri-D Wilson, is the second book in her long-poem fantasy, dystopian trilogy. The…
Review of Carley Mayson’s “If I Know Anything About a Knife”
Review by Catherine Owen If I Know Anything About a Knife by Carley Mayson Frontenac House (2025) The need to be honest about one’s torments, from addiction and self-harm, to…
Renée Sgroi, in Conversation with Bruce Hunter
By Bruce Hunter On a Tension of Leaves and Binding by Renée M. Sgroi Guernica Editions (2024) I was first introduced to Renée Sgroi’s poetry online at the Oakville Literary…
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…