Jason "Blackbird" Selman is a performance poet and jazz trumpeter who plays with the music collective Kalm Unity. ...
By Bert Almon
Poetry
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
Nicole Brossard is a national treasure, and we don't need the Molson Prize and her two Governor General's Literary ...
By Bert Almon
Ranging from haikus on porn to petulant fan mail addressed to Boy George, this collection's main strength is its ...
By Aparna Sanyal
There is a panoramic quality to this book, which takes us into the heart of the natural and man-made worlds, ...
By Aparna Sanyal
When Emily Dickinson sent her work to Thomas Higginson for comment, she cautioned him that the person in the poems ...
By Bert Almon
Newfoundland is the site for much of Angela Hibbs's Passport. The local colour is there (drowning is a ...
By Bert Almon
The opening sequence of Angela Carr's Ropewalk, "The Louise Labé Poems," turns on a real person (maybe), ...
By Bert Almon
Is there a person named Bryan Sentes? The author's note in Ladonian Magnitudes asserts his reality as a ...
By Bert Almon