Review by Geoffrey Nilson Riffs Dennis Lee Brick Books Classics, 2015 The diversity of Dennis Lee’s writing can be daunting. From the Governor General’s Award winning philosophical inquiry of Civil Elegies to the experimental polyphony of his most recent...
We’ve been pretty busy here at PRISM international this past month. If we’re not busy with the 2016 Poetry and Fiction Contests, we’re writing grants for the Canada Council for the Arts and the British Columbia Arts Council, two organizations...
Review by Esther Griffin Designated Mourner by Catherine Owen ECW Press Catherine Owen’s latest book of poetry, Designated Mourner, is an elegy to her partner, who died suddenly at the age of 29 after his drug use led to...
Review by Jessica Torrens In A Time of No Song By Jeff Bien Exile Editions, 2015 In this abundant volume of free verse, and his previous collection, A Taste of Creation, Jeff Bien works a rapturous magic by pushing...
In honour of #TranformationTuesday, I thought a writing prompt about transformations would be appropriate. This prompt can be approached several ways and depending on the genre. If you’re writing a poem, write down the word “transformation”. What does it...
Review by Amber McMillan Regeneration Machine Joe Denham Nightwood Editions, 2015 Joe Denham is a fisherman and carpenter living on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast, and Regeneration Machine is his third book of poetry. Denham is not a poet churning...
Frantic that you missed our extended deadline for the Fiction and Poetry Contests? Have no fear, the double extended deadline is here! Okay, cheesy, but your winning short story or poem won’t be! The new double extended deadline is...
Former PRISM poetry editor (2014-15) Rob Taylor sat down with Victoria-turned-Vancouver-turned-Toronto poet, and former PRISM poetry editor (2009-2010), Elizabeth Ross, whose debut collection Kingdom was published in Spring 2015 by Palimpsest Press. — A Dying Wasp – Elizabeth Ross...
With only eight days left to submit to our 2016 Poetry Contest, we thought it would be appropriate to have this Thursday’s throwback be last year’s poetry contest winner. Phoebe Wang’s chapbook, Occasional Emergencies, was published with Toronto’s Odourless Press in Fall...