Fire Cider RainRhiannon Ng Cheng HinCoach House Books, 2022 Review by Kim Trainor In Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin’s Fire Cider Rain, an armature of scientific terminology undergirds imagery that is fluid, languid, and meandering, like gauze or drifts of...
Tracking Giants: Big Trees, Tiny Triumphs, and Misadventures in the ForestAmanda LewisGreystone, 2023 Review by Kim Trainor We are surrounded by some of the most beautiful and ancient trees on the planet, yet many of us on the west...
Nautilus and Bone Lisa RichterFrontenac House Poetry, 2020 Review by Kim Trainor I don’t remember where I first encountered the poetry of Anna Margolin (born Rosa Leysenboym), only that I was drawn to her cycle of Mary poems, in which...
on/meFrancine CunninghamCaitlin Press, 2019 Review by Kim Trainor Let’s start with the title: on/me. Every poem in the collection has two titles: a main title that suggests a general category (On Grief, On Love, On Identity, On Mental Health)...
Designated MournerCatherine OwenECW Press, 2014 Riven Catherine OwenECW Press, 2020 Review by Kim Trainor Last night I went down to the river, the Fraser slipping through Delta’s fingers, past Westham Island, mud-green flow of water tipped silver out to sea....
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...
Put Your Hand in Mine Elaine WooSignature Editions, 2019 Review by Kim Trainor Vancouver poet Elaine Woo’s first collection, Cycling with the Dragon (Nightwood Editions, 2014), had an often whimsical tone, but despite the poems that focussed on joy and...