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...
Questions by Kyla Jamieson Photo by Dana Jansens Get to know writer Djamila Ibrahim, whose poems “Bloodletting” and “Brine” appear in our winter issue 57.2. If you don’t have the issue yet, have a sneak peak at “Bloodletting”, which we...
Reviews by Esther Chen This Love Is Mad Reciprocal – Liam Coady Glass Buffalo On the cover of Liam Coady’s chapbook This Love Is Mad Reciprocal, the blossoming branch of a cherry blossom tree bears fruit in the form...
Orange Christine Herzer Ugly Duckling Presse Review by Abby Paige “Poets are containers,” Christine Herzer asserts and further, “containers deserve respect.” The image of the container is central in her new chapbook, Orange. A container may be a...
By Robert Colman Books discussed: Complete Physical by Shane Neilson (The Porcupine’s Quill, 2010) On Shaving Off His Face by Shane Neilson (The Porcupine’s Quill, 2015) Dysphoria by Shane Neilson (The Porcupine’s Quill, 2017) According to Deadly Force, a...
Reviews by Esther Chen Tell Everybody I Say Hi by Tess Liem Anstruther Press Tess Liem’s first chapbook opens with a short piece that sets the tone for the rest of the collection. Liem writes “I, a compartment & careful, ...
Nix Jessie Jones Desert Pets Press Review by Andy Verboom In poetry, myth is usually deployed either as allusion or as conceit. The distinction between allusion and conceit is analogous to how one might treat a very old hammer:...