Review of Bret Crowle’s “Jesus is a Voyeur”
By Catherine Owen Jesus is a Voyeur by Bret Crowle Frontenac House (2024) Fugue: a contrapuntal composition in two or more voices involving repetition. The plurality of everything. Jesus: purported…
Review of Ellen Chang-Richardson’s “Blood Belies”
By Frances Boyle Blood Belies by Ellen Chang-Richardson Wolsak & Wynn (2024) Blood Belies is Ellen Chang-Richardson’s first full-length poetry collection after six chapbooks (solo and collaborative) published over the…
Review of Bren Simmers’ “The Work”
By Beth Everest The Work by Bren Simmers Gaspereau Press (2024) Even the construction of the cover page predicates a main theme of Bren Simmers’ fifth book, The Work. The…
Review of Maureen Hynes’ “Take the Compass”
By Megan Nega Take the Compass by Maureen Hynes McGill-Queen’s University Press (2023) Take the Compass is a vivid collection of 58 poems which offer guidance for navigating life’s chaos…
Review of Sheri-D Wilson’s “The Oneironaut”
By Mary Vlooswyk The Oneironaut 1 by Sheri-D Wilson Write Bloody North (2024) The first thing I had to do with this book was research what Oneironaut meant, despite ONERIO…
Review of Tim Bowling’s “In The Capital City of Autumn”
By Catherine Owen In The Capital City of Autumn by Tim Bowling Wolsak & Wynn (2024) Tim Bowling’s body of work holds the distinction of being both diverse and consistent…
Review of David Martin’s “Kink Bands”
By Steven Ross Smith Kink Bands by David Martin NeWest Press (2023) We’re in the mountains here, or in a classroom, or touring earth … but where doesn’t exactly matter…
Review of Ariel Gordon and Brenda Schmidt’s “Siteseeing”
By Frances Boyle Siteseeing by Ariel Gordon and Brenda Schmidt At Bay Press (2023) Siteseeking is the result of a year-long conversation in poetry between two writers celebrated for their…
Three Books on Poetics Reviewed by Catherine Owen
By Catherine Owen Imagining Imagining by Gary Barwin Wolsak and Wynn (2023) “I love the syncretic web of experience,” Gary Barwin states exuberantly in his essay “The Selected Walks,” from…
Review of Leilei Chen’s translation of “I Have Forsaken Heaven & Earth, but Never Forsaken You”
By Mary Vlooswyk I Have Forsaken Heaven & Earth, but Never Forsaken You by MA Hui, translated by Leilei Chen Frontenac House (2023) Have you ever played the telephone game?…