hen David Solway coined the phrase “double exile” to describe the situation of the English-language writers in ...
By Abby Paige
Poetry
ildlife inhabits much of Stephanie Bolster’s A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth, which meanders ...
By Abby Paige
inda Besner’s poems are seriously playful. The title of her book, with its pair of rhyming words, suggests that ...
By Bert Almon
ontreal legend Artie Gold published only two books after his great outburst of creativity in 1974–79, and one of ...
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It is heartening when poets engage with philosophy or science. Kate Hall’s The Certainty Dream (reviewed in ...
By Bert Almon
Larissa Andrusyshyn’s book is fresh and original in its language, which is drawn largely from science. Buried in ...
By Bert Almon
Johanna Skibsrud’s approach to the poem often seems to be, “Why use two pages when three would do?” Her book ...
By Bert Almon
Kaie Kellough’s Maple Leaf Rag alludes in its title to the most famous composition by the brilliant ...
By Bert Almon
“Rolli,” the artist and children’s writer also known as Charles Anderson, has his own expansions of the art of ...
By Bert Almon
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 great Italian poet Eugenio Montale once said that "poetry is a dream dreamed in the presence of reason." Kate ...
By Bert Almon
Robyn Sarah's poems in Pause for Breath engage the textures of daily life rather than philosophy. In fact, ...
By Bert Almon