Poetry

Maple Leaf Rag

Kaie Kellough’s Maple Leaf Rag alludes in its title to the most famous composition by the brilliant ...

By Bert Almon

Plum Stuff

“Rolli,” the artist and children’s writer also known as Charles Anderson, has his own expansions of the art of ...

By Bert Almon

Bhagavad Goalie

No one who was swept up in Canada's recent run to Olympic hockey gold will have any trouble with the notion that ...

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The Certainty Dream

The great Italian poet Eugenio Montale once said that "poetry is a dream dreamed in the presence of reason." Kate ...

By Bert Almon

Pause for Breath

Robyn Sarah's poems in Pause for Breath engage the textures of daily life rather than philosophy. In fact, ...

By Bert Almon

Cast from Bells

Suzanne Hancock's Cast from Bells was inspired by one of the great radio documentaries of our time, Peter ...

By Bert Almon

Blue Poppy

Ilona Martonfi's poems in Blue Poppy have more human than literary interest. She writes about life as a ...

By Bert Almon

The Crow’s Vow

Susan Briscoe's The Crow's Vow is another work dealing with a dysfunctional union. Her poems in this ...

By Bert Almon

This Way Out

As his readers would expect, Carmine Starnino's new book is well crafted and imaginative. A few poems don't carry ...

By Bert Almon

Pure Product

Jason Guriel draws the title of his book from a celebrated poem by William Carlos Williams, who lamented the human ...

By Bert Almon

Passenger Flight

Brian Campbell's inspiration is Charles Baudelaire: Passenger Flight begins with a quotation from the ...

By Bert Almon