Review of Robert Priest’s “If I Didn’t Love the River”
by Patrick Connors If I Didn’t Love the River by Robert Priest ECW Press (2022) Robert Priest’s latest collection pushes boundaries. It cannot be defined as one school or “type”…
Review of Kim Fahner’s “Emptying the Ocean”
By Beth Everest Emptying the Ocean by Kim Fahner Frontenac House (2022) Because the title, itself, of Kim Fahner’s latest book suggests the impossible, I am instantly intrigued, and Emptying…
Review of Anvesh Jain’s “Pilgrim to No Country”
by Jaclyn Pahl Pilgrim to No Country by Anvesh Jain Frontenac House (2022) In his debut poetry collection, Pilgrim to No Country, Anvesh Jain promises to “pen the great ironies…
Review of Marty Gervais’ “Meeting Thoreau at the Gas Station Diner”
by Shelley McAneeley Meeting Thoreau at the Gas Station Diner by Marty Gervais Urban Farmhouse Press (2022) In the mid-to-late sixties, hippies and curious seekers took off to wherever, whatever,…
Review of Angeline Schellenberg’s “Fields of Light and Stone”
By Yvonne Blomer Fields of Light and Stone by Angeline Schellenberg University of Alberta Press (2020) Fields of Light and Stone is a book of poems through which Angeline Schellenberg…
Review of Zoe Dickinson’s “Intertidal: Poems from the Littoral Zone”
By Yvonne Blomer intertidal: poems from the littoral zone by Zoe Dickinson Raven Chapbooks (2022) The title alone of this slim volume of astonishing poems says much – both intertidal…
Review of Lousie B. Halfe’s “Awâsis: Kinky and Dishevelled”
By Micheline Maylor Awâsis: Kinky and Dishevelled by Lousie B. Halfe Sky Dancer Brick (2021) Awâsis: Kinky and Dishevelled by Louise B. Halfe Sky Dancer is a trickster’s book of…
Review of D. A. Lockhart’s “Go Down Odawa Way”
By Marty Gervais Go Down Odawa Way by D. A. Lockhart Kegedonce Press (2021) I heard so much about this book by Windsor-based writer D.A. Lockhart, and looked forward to…
Review of Gary Barwin “For It Is a Pleasure and a Surprise to Breathe”
By Skylar Kay For It Is a Pleasure and a Surprise to Breathe by Gary Barwin Buckrider Books (2019) Gary Barwin’s collection of poetry For It Is a Pleasure and a…
Review of Arleen Paré’s “First”
By Catherine Owen First by Arleen Paré Brick Books (2020) The topic of female friendships in literature: enduring, formative, is unfortunately uncommon. Often dismissed as a bond of fripperies by a patriarchal society, close…