Traditionally, first poetry collections are slim volumes, and so prematurely published that their authors later ...
By Bert Almon
Poetry
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
A hard choice, because I believe books can be distinctively Anglo-Quebec in spirit but not in setting. But I'll ...
By Carmine Starnino
Robert Allen’s Standing Wave has two parts: “Thirty-eight Sonnets from Jimmie Walker Swamp,” and the third ...
By Bert Almon
David Solway’s book is definitely eccentric, and elegant in its own way. For five years he has been creating ...
By Bert Almon
Alessandro Porco’s strategy is the polar opposite of Solway’s euphemisms: his title sequence deals as explicitly ...
By Bert Almon
Carolyn Marie Souaid is a thoroughly serious writer: centric, not eccentric, and eager to confront the key issues ...
By Bert Almon