Carolyn Souaid also confronts a bleak world, but she feels the times are out of joint for metaphysical reasons, ...
By Bert Almon
Poetry
Oana Avasilichioaei's ambitious work puts a new spin on the ancient tradition of the topographical poem. Her ...
By Bert Almon
Jason Camlot's The Debaucher is filled with Montreal atmosphere: streets, schools, and, inevitably, Moe ...
By Bert Almon
Christopher Wiseman, one of Canada's finest poets, has published nine previous collections. Wiseman has always ...
By Bert Almon
Joshua Auerbach's excellent book has a miscellaneous quality that is not uncommon in first collections. It ...
By Bert Almon
Maxianne Berger is proficient in a number of forms: the haiku, the pantoum, the sonnet, and Anglo-Saxon ...
By Bert Almon
Peter Richardson's ABC of Bellywork was reviewed in mRb 13. His new book is even better. Richardson ...
By Bert Almon
Jason "Blackbird" Selman is a performance poet and jazz trumpeter who plays with the music collective Kalm Unity. ...
By Bert Almon
There are many winters in Todd Swift's Winter Tennis: ageing, bereavement, failure, lost love, anxiety, ...
By Aparna Sanyal
David McGimpsey's witty collection shows some of the hazards of satirizing popular culture. The subject is a bit ...
By Bert Almon
Naomi Guttman's Wet Apples, White Blood is her first book since 1991, when her debut, Waiting for ...
By Bert Almon
S. E. Venart's debut collection, Woodshedding, is good but shows a narrow range, with an emphasis on the ...
By Bert Almon