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…
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…