Pots and Other Living Beingsannie rossTalonbooks, 2019 A Tent, A Lantern, An Empty BowlM. Travis LanePalimpsest Press, 2019 Review by Kim Trainor With the advent of SARS-CoV-2, for many of us there has been a contraction of the world...
Life Sentence,rob mclennanSpuyten Duyvil, 2019 Review by Margo LaPierre Life Sentence, (the unusual punctuation is deliberate, you’ll see) is a poetry collection that begins quietly, with much purpose, and picks up speed as it goes along like a river...
If a Carp Dreams of the Milky WayBy Jasmine Gui, with art by Brianna TosswillPenrose Press, 2019 Review by Manahil Bandukwala Published by Penrose Press, Jasmine Gui’s chapbook, If a Carp Dreams of the Milky Way explores mythology through...
UnmeaningableRoxanna BennettGordon Hill Press, 2019 A Cemetery for HolesTom Prime and Gary BarwinGordon Hill Press, 2019 Reviews by Robert Colman Starting a small press is a precarious, quixotic enterprise. It isn’t just the low (or zero) pay and long...
The Green Waves: Poems from Roblin LakeRob Taylor845 Press, 2019 Review by Andrew French Rob Taylor’s The Green Waves (845 Press, 2019) transports readers to Al Purdy’s A-frame cabin on Roblin Lake through an inquisitive uncertainty about that unique...
Crow GulchDouglas Walbourne-Goughicehouse poetry, 2019. Review by Kim Trainor In a CBC interview about his debut collection Crow Gulch, Douglas Walbourne-Gough observes, “I would really hope one of the things that the book speaks, back to me and everyone...
Too Too Too Too Tammy Ho Lai-Ming Math Paper Press, 2019 Review by Kate Rogers Hong Kong poet, academic and translator Tammy Ho Lai-Ming’s latest poetry collection Too Too Too Too is political. In light of the kidnappings of...
Reviews by Elee Kraljii Gardiner Seven Sacred Truths by Wanda John-Kehewin, Talonbooks, 2019Disintegrate/Dissociate by Arielle Twist, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2019Ledi by Kim Trainor, Book*hug Press, 2018 A life is not a linear collection of events, but perhaps a palimpsest,...
A Violent Streak Stephanie Warner Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd., 2018 Review by Mormei Zanke Stephanie Warner’s debut poetry collection A Violent Streak begins with a question: “Or is it a seam?” (15). Warner doesn’t waste any time, entreating the reader to...