Nicole Brossard is a national treasure, and we don't need the Molson Prize and her two Governor General's Literary ...
By Bert Almon
Poetry
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
Paul Bélanger's The World Forgotten is a fine addition to the stock of Québécois poetry in translation. In ...
By Bert Almon
The poems in Black Velvet Elvis surprise twice. First by their distinctiveness, then by how they leave you ...
By Carmine Starnino
Traditionally, first poetry collections are slim volumes, and so prematurely published that their authors later ...
By Bert Almon
Anne Claire Poirier's book deals with absence and death in a very literal way. The Quebec filmmaker's daughter, ...
By Bert Almon
Wallace Stevens says that "poetry is the scholar's art." No truer does this sentiment ring than in the work of ...
By Jon Paul Fiorentino