Chad Pelley at Salty Ink writes about former Halifax poet laureate Lorri Neilsen Glenn’s new collection Lost Gospels – “A truly moving collection of poetry that dwells in profoundly personal yet and universal subject matter. A book a blaze so you feel it. Outspoken and insightful, Read more...
Review by Nick Thran in Event, spring 2010, issue 39.1 Heather Cadsby is one of those rare Canadian poets shoring a well-honed and generous sense of humour against the hard edge of grief and loss. She acknowledges the limitations of humour while at the same time giving room to its enormous Read more...
Inkslinger at The Overdecorated Bookcase writes: “I’ve had affection and respect for Steve McOrmond’s poetry since Lean Days … so it was with much anticipation that I opened the pages of his latest collection The Good News About Armageddon. And I wasn’t Read more...
http://indextrious.blogspot.com/2010/06/lost-gospels.html – I received this volume of poetry from the publisher, Brick Books (thanks, BB!) What a treat it was. I hadn’t heard of this poet previously, too bad for me, as this was a wonderful read. Lost Gospels / Lorri Neilsen Read more...
I would like to begin my talk this evening with a quote from John Barton, taken from rob mclennan’s very useful 12 or 20 questions, online. “For me the best poems evince a way of being that it is their place to record and preserve.” John Barton was born in Edmonton in 1957, Read more...
Vancouver poet laureate Brad Cran writes, “[Antony] Di Nardo is a superb poet. Alien, Correspondent is a great book… a diligently crafted and unpretentious book filled with insight and great poem after great poem.” For the full article, see Read more...
http://indextrious.blogspot.com/2010/03/international-womens-day-celebration-in.html – Happy International Women’s Day! Hope all of you had a great day and celebrated in some way. For my part, I read this wonderful collection of poetry: Hooked / Carolyn Smart London, ON: Brick Books, Read more...
http://indextrious.blogspot.com/2010/03/international-womens-day-celebration-in.html Happy International Women’s Day! Hope all of you had a great day and celebrated in some way. For my part, I read this wonderful collection of poetry: Hooked / Carolyn Smart London, ON: Brick Books, Read more...
At the very heart of what I love about poetry is its attempts to capture in a truly authentic way how we make sense of our lives. Primarily as I see it, this involves issues of identity, experience, and consciousness with our imaginations being the fulcrum the rest of these mental processes rest Read more...
Finely crafted divagations – Michael Kenyon explores the meaning of home in a new collection The Daily Review, Wednesday, February 3, 2010 Reviewed by Judith Fitzgerald A fabulous collection, The Last House, British Columbian Michael Kenyon’s third full-length volume (following Rack Read more...
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