History, true and fictional: A review of poet Kate Cayley’s “When This World Comes to an End” January 2, 2013 Lori A. May – The Toronto Review of Books A first book of poems is a beautiful thing. But while this is Kate Cayley’s first poetry volume, she is no newcomer to writing. Read more...
And one more honour for Monkey Ranch by Julie Bruck – the Globe 100!! Read about it here. Monkey Ranch By Julie Bruck Brick Books It has been nearly 13 years since Bruck’s last poetry collection, and Monkey Ranch, which has won the Governor-General’s Award for poetry, shows both her Read more...
Between Dusk and Night by Emily McGiffin is reviewed by Sarah Bernstein at Lemonhound.com – have a look here – Wilding the Domestic: Emily McGiffin’s Between Dusk and Night. Read more...
In this review of Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page, Harold Heft for the Montreal Gazette writes: “… few artists continue to evolve and improve across an extended lifespan; Page is an exception, as seen by the groundbreaking publication of the volume Hologram: A Book of Glosas Read more...
For those of us who feel they don’t have time to waste on mediocre offerings from the poetic muse, The Rapids by Susan Gillis is a relief. Without slipping into self indulgence, Gillis treads the ground of the personal with consummate care, linking loss with natural images like dragonflies and Read more...
With photo – caption “Julie Bruck loads her work with tension by means of economy and juxtaposition.” Montreal native Julie Bruck’s third collection of poems is also her first since 1999. The intervening years have seen seismic shifts in aesthetics, but Bruck, now based in San Francisco, Read more...
Steven Price’s second book of poetry, following the Gerald Lampert Award winner Anatomy of Keys (2006), is a clever mix of ancient and modern. Omens in the Year of the Ox delves into mythology, retelling stories of Icarus, Medea, and Odysseus in a way that feels fresh and new. It also mixes in Read more...
Read all about it!!! For Immediate Release: February 21, 2012: Canadian Bookshelf Announces Amazon.ca As Lead Sponsor and Rebrands as The 49th Shelf Canadian books are getting a well-deserved boost today. Canadian Bookshelf announced that Amazon.ca is its lead sponsor for 2012, and that the Read more...
What’s goin on, Cape Breton’s Go & Do Guide – November 27, 2011 “There’s a difference between a bunch of poems and a book,” E. Alex Pierce says about the process of preparing her first book of verse, Vox Humana. Pierce, from Sable River, Nova Scotia, officially launched Vox Read more...
Walk this way Reviewed by Quentin Mills-Fenn (Prairie Books Now, fall 2011) Cook’s latest collection sets a new pace A Walker in the City is a perambulatory text. South African-born writer Méira Cook says the volume draws on at least two of her interests: ambulation and her adopted home, Read more...
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