Geoffrey Cook’s first collection is written mostly in strict forms, though some of his best writing comes in ...
By Bert Almon
Poetry
Norm Sibum, a winner of the A.M. Klein Award, is best at defining atmosphere. His characters, who seem detached ...
By Bert Almon
Susan Glickman's new book offers a full retrospective of her work, which has proceeded down the middle of the ...
By Bert Almon
In publishing Autumn Harvest, a deluxe edition of the poems of Stanley Brice Frost, it is clear that the ...
By Bert Almon
In Between Cup & Lip, Jean Mallinson is feisty, angry, tender: a full range of emotions. Her tropes are ...
By Bert Almon
In a short work from A Day's Grace called "Poems," Robyn Sarah suggests that a poem is "a small machine to ...
By Bert Almon
Carolyn Souaid's book is deeply involved with the Canadian North, specifically the Ungava coast, where she spent ...
By Bert Almon
Endre Farkas is also fascinated by the North. His Worshipful Company of Skinners, based on journals of ...
By Bert Almon
Ricardo Sternberg's poems offer pleasure. His forms are elegant: he loves three- and four-line stanza and even ...
By Bert Almon
Peter Richardson, who is also given to formal neatness, opens The ABC of Belly Work with a poem about his ...
By Bert Almon
Ken Norrris's book, the latest of twenty titles, does not have a heartening effect. Norris's earlier work was ...
By Bert Almon
Matt Robinson's poems are intellectually passionate in the tradition of John Donne. He draws metaphors from ...
By Bert Almon