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?…
Review of Juleta Severson-Baker’s “Antecedent”
By Katherine Matiko Antecedent by Juleta Severson-Baker Frontenac House (2023) Juleta Severson-Baker dedicates Antecedent to her ancestors, so it was no surprise to encounter a boy coming to terms with…
Review of dee Hobsbawn-Smith’s “Among the Untamed”
By Mary Vlooswyk Among the Untamed by dee Hobsbawn-Smith Frontenac House Poetry (2023) Among the Untamed by dee Hobsbawn-Smith is an exploration of how to be a woman in today’s…
Review of Derek Beaulieu’s “Surface Tension” by Steven Ross Smith
By Steven Ross Smith Surface Tension by Derek Beaulieu Coach House Press (2022) Following on and expanding upon the appearance and evolution of concrete poetry, which exploded language’s visual and…
Review of Eva Tihanyi’s “Circle Tour” by Katherine Matiko
By Katherine Matiko Circle Tour by Eva Tihanyi Inanna Publications and Education Inc. (2023) Eva Tihanyi’s Circle Tour takes readers on a spiralling journey from hope to societal and personal…
Review of Jennifer Bowering Delisle’s “Deriving”
By Jennifer Cox Deriving by Jennifer Bowering Delisle University of Alberta Press (2021) While it is an unusual choice to open a poetry book with a Descartian theory on the…
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 (&…