A hard choice, because I believe books can be distinctively Anglo-Quebec in spirit but not in setting. But I'll ...
By Carmine Starnino
Poetry
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
Steve Luxton’s books appear infrequently, which is ironic considering what a facilitator of other people’s writing ...
By Bert Almon
Each of Erin Mouré’s recent works is a kit for the reader to assemble without an instruction manual. Little ...
By Bert Almon
Sherwin Tjia, who is perhaps better known as a cartoonist (Pedigree Girls) than poet, has described his ...
By Bert Almon
Sonja Skarstedt’s In the House of the Sun deals with Hawaii. The poems often read like travelogues, ...
By Bert Almon
In Lettricity, Kaie Kellough’s debut collection, the performance poet’s Caribbean roots rub up against ...
By Kimberly Bourgeois
Todd Swift has a remarkably capacious imagination. He is one of the founders of “fusion poetry,” which brings ...
By Bert Almon
Carmine Starnino’s new book shows his usual mastery: he uses the couplet and other stanza forms with extraordinary ...
By Bert Almon