Paul Bélanger's The World Forgotten is a fine addition to the stock of Québécois poetry in translation. In ...
By Bert Almon
Poetry
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
Traditionally, first poetry collections are slim volumes, and so prematurely published that their authors later ...
By Bert Almon
Traditionally, first poetry collections are slim volumes, and so prematurely published that their authors later ...
By Bert Almon
Attention All Typewriters packs a lot into its 100-plus pages. Jason Camlot's wit and erudition are ...
By Bert Almon
The epigraph of Andrew Steinmetz's Hurt Thyself comes from Hippocrates: "First, do no harm." For writers, ...
By Bert Almon
In Abandon, Oana Avasilichioaei writes travel poems, but hers have a genuine emotional commitment. She was ...
By Bert Almon
Poet and novelist Lazar Sarna is competent enough, but there is no thematic or emotional urgency to his latest ...
By Bert Almon
You have to understand, I don't come from here. I grew up in a prairie city. Montreal was a distant rumour, its ...
By Mark Abley