Welcome to our Review section. Here we compile reviews of Brick books published in the last few years. They are listed alphabetically by author’s name.
Enjoy!
NOTE: Reviews are also listed on each book’s page.
If you are searching for reviews of earlier books, you can check the internet or contact Brick Books at brick.books@sympatico.ca
John Barton
Faith in Poetry – John Barton inspires with Hymn by E.G. Anderson (Monday Magazine, November 12 – 18, 2009)
Xtra recommends: best queer books of 2009 by Marcus McCann (Xtra, National, December 22, 2009)
Poetry: To consider history, we must make it ours by Barbara Carey (Toronto Star, Sunday, January 17, 2010)
Substantial poetry in old/new forms by Bill Robertson (Saskatoon StarPhoenix, January 23, 2010)
Hymn / Him by Christopher Hennessy, author (Outside the Lines: Contemporary Gay Poets, July 27, 2010)
Hymn by John Barton by Sean Horlor (Xtra West!, May 12, 2010)
Hymn by John Barton by John Cunningham (Arc, winter 2010)
Sheri Benning
Thin Moon Psalm by Sherri Benning by Barbara Carey (The Toronto Star, September 16, 2007)
Universal longing to hold fast to life by Bill Robertson (The StarPhoenix, Saskatoon, January 26, 2008)
Imagery Benning’s strength; Sutherland’s style direct by George Elliott Clarke (Halifax Chronicle-Herald, January 27, 2008)
Thin Moon Psalm by Sheri Benning by Maurice Mierau (Winnipeg Free Press, March 23, 2008)
Labour and Leaving by Heather Simeney MacLeod (The Goose, 4.2 Fall 2008, ALECC)
Colin Browne
Diana Fitzgerald Bryden
Clinic Day by Diana Fitzgerald Bryden by Tanis MacDonald (Malahat Review – Issue 154, Spring 2006)
Heather Cadsby
Could be by Heather Cadsby by Ronnie R. Brown (Canadian Bookseller – Volume 2, 2010)
Could be by Heather Cadsby by Nick Thran (Event, spring 2010, issue 39.1)
Jan Conn
Jaguar Rain by Jan Conn by Ian Letourneau (Northern Poetry Review, 2006)
Almost Invisible by Linda Besner (Books in Canada, December 2006)
Jaguar Rain: The Margaret Mee Poems by Jan Conn by Jenna Butler (www.poetryreviews.ca, July 19, 2006)
Jan Conn. Jaguar Rain. by Adrian Fowler (Journal of Canadian Poetry, Volume 23, 2009 (covering the year 2006))
Botero’s Beautiful Horses: a few notes on Jan Conn’s new collection of poetry by Lorette C. Luzajic, May 11, 2009 (The Girl Can Write blog)
Botero’s Beautiful Horses by John Herbert Cunningham (Prairie Fire)
Suburban to surreal by Bill Robertson (Saskatoon StarPhoenix, August 8, 2009)
Conn shines in travel poems when she moves inward by George Elliott Clarke (Halifax Chronicle-Herald, March 7, 2010)
Conn, Kearley’s poems vibrant with verbs by George Elliott Clarke (Halifax Chronicle-Herald, Sunday, October 8, 2006)
A Review by Travis Mason by Travis Mason (The Goose, 2006)
Marlene Cookshaw
Lunar Drift by Marlene Cookshaw by Andrew Vaisius (Prairie Fire)
Lunar Drift by Marlene Cookshaw by Richard Stevenson (www.poetryreviews.ca)
Barry Dempster
Nominated for the 2005 Governor General’s Award for Poetry by Jury Citation (2005)
Personals by Chris Jennings (Canadian Literature, winter 2007 – #195)
Verse Case Scenario by Barbara Carey (http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/verse.html)
Tuesday by Inkslinger, April 21, 2009 (The Overdecorated Bookcase blog)
An old subject, but a fresh approach by Paul Vermeersch (Globe and Mail, June 20, 2009)
Love Outlandish by Barry Dempster by Gillian Harding-Russell (Prairie Fire)
Antony Di Nardo
Like an oriental rug by Mishka Mourani (Amazon.com – May 29, 2010)
Adam Dickinson
Species of Memory, Species of Order by Nicholas Bradley (echolocation, issue 6, December 2006)
Back to the Bentleys by Bill Robertson (The StarPhoenix, Saskatoon, Saturday, May 12, 2007)
Reordering relation by Brook Houglum (The Goose, Issue 3 (spring 2007))
Kingdom, Phylum by Adam Dickinson by Douglas Barbour (CANADIAN BOOK REVIEW ANNUAL, June 2008)
Of Note – Kingdom, Phylum by Adam Dickinson by Laurie Ricou (Canadian Literature 196 – spring 2008)
Cartography and Walking by Adam Dickinson by Gregory Maillet (Antigonish Review, issue 138, summer 2004)
February Books by Bren Simmers (The Dominion, March 29, 2007)
Going ‘Round the Outside: Adam Dickinson by Tim Conley ( Poetics.ca # 8 – December 2007)
Cartography and Walking by Adam Dickinson by Adam Lesk (Books in Canada, 2006)
Cartography and Walking by Adam Dickinson by Jana Prikryl (Quill & Quire, July 2002)
Don Domanski
Don Domanski’s Woebegone and Woken Worlds by Steve Noyes (The Fiddlehead – winter 2008, No. 234)
Domanski, Kasturi explore the fabulous by George Elliott Clarke (Halifax Chronicle-Herald, Sunday, September 23, 2007)
A kind of alchemy, an opener of doors by Barbara Carey (The Toronto Star – July 8, 2007)
Glimpses of spiritual in the ‘pause between’ by Bill Robertson (The StarPhoenix, Saturday, August 18, 2007)
Wonder and the Sacred by Paul Milton (Canadian Literature # 198, autumn 2008)
Dangerous Words: Don Domanski and Metaphor by David O’Meara (Northern Poetry Review)
All Our Wonder Unavenged by Don Domanski by Sally Ito (Prairie Fire Review of Books)
Being everyday / in the Canadian wilderness: Reading postpastoral poetry by Don Domanski and Tom Wayman by Alanna F. Bondar (The Goose, spring 2008)
John Donlan
John Donlan & The Dames by Judith Fitzgerald (monstersandcritics.com, July 21, 2008)
Deep-felt tales of nature, a work of transformation by Barbara Carey (Toronto Star, July 13, 2008)
The Last Three Poetry Books of my Year by Lorette C. Luzajic (LiteraryAddict.wordpress.com – November 16, 2008)
The heart in love – the heart in nature by Bill Robertson (Saskatoon StarPhoenix, January 10, 2009)
Count on it by Judith Fitzgerald (Globe and Mail, January 17, 2009)
Spirit Engine by John Donlan by Jenna Butler (poetryreviews.ca, February 24, 2010)
“No thought is free of the world”: Two Recent Books of Nature Poetry (So-called) by Nicholas Bradley (The Goose – spring 2009, issue 5, pages 59-62)
The time of your life by Christine Borsuk (Chapters.Indigo.ca – June 3, 2010)
Susan Elmslie
I, Nadja and Other Poems by Susan Elmslie by rob mclennan (http://www.robmclennan.blogspot.com/2006_08_01_robmclennan_archive.html)
I, Nadja and Other Poems by Susan Elmslie by Bill Robertson (The StarPhoenix, Saskatoon, December 2, 2006)
Female poets write of the mystery of the feminine by George Elliott Clarke (Halifax Chronicle Herald, March 11, 2007)
Barefoot in the Margins by Daniel Burgoyne (Canadian Literature, spring 2007, #192)
Innovation and Renovation by Bert Almon (Montreal Review of Books, Fall & Winter 2006/07)
John Ennis
Reverberating Verse by Katrin Urschel (Canadian Literature – #200, spring 2009)
Patrick Friesen
Glen Downie: Critical Distance by Glen Downie (Event, Vol. 27, no 1 – spring 1998)
Lorri Neilsen Glenn
Memory bridges geography in Neilsen Glenn’s poetry by George Elliott Clarke (The Halifax Herald, May 27, 2007)
Combustion by Lorri Neilsen Glenn by Sue MacLeod (Atlantic Books Today, spring 2007)
February Books: New Works by MacArthur, Armstrong, McPherson and Glenn by Jane Henderson (The Dominion, February 2008)
Combustion by Lorri Neilsen Glenn by Carla Atherton (Cahoots Magazine, 2007)
Combustion by Lorri Neilsen Glenn by Mitchell Parry (Malahat Review, winter 2007)
Wolf, Star, Ash by Joel Deshaye (Canadian Literature – has not yet appeared)
Lost Gospels by Lorri Neilsen Glenn by Ariel Gordon (Winnipeg Free Press – March 27, 2010)
Poets prod us to be awake to life by Bill Robertson (Saskatoon StarPhoenix, May 15, 2010)
Lost Gospels – Lorri Neilsen Glenn by Prairie Books Now (Prairie Books Now – spring 2010)
Lost Gospels by Lorri Neilsen Glenn by Melanie Kindrachuk (The Indextrious Reader, June 29, 2010)
Salty Ink on Poet Laureate Lorri Neilsen Glenn’s New Collection, Lost Gospels by Chad Pelley (Salty Ink, July 22, 2010)
Susan Goyette
Undone by Sue Goyette by Lorri Neilsen Glenn (Antigonish Review, issue 141)
Bookshelf: Atlantic Canadian poetry not as boring as you thought by Alix McLean (McGill Daily, 2006)
Glen Downie: Poetic Education by Glen Downie (Event, Vol. 34, no 1 – summer 2005)
Phil Hall
Brainy poets sing out by George Elliott Clarke (Halifax Chronicle-Herald, Sunday, September 10, 2006)
Just So by Andrew Vaisius (Books in Canada, December 2006)
Treasure knots in wood by Barbara Carey (Toronto Star, January 29th, 2006)
Diana Hartog
Ink Monkey by Diana Hartog by Andrea Belcham (Prairie Fire – January 18, 2007)
Poetry Weather by Meredith Quartermain (Canadian Literature 193, Summer 2007)
Ink Monkey by Diana Hartog by George Elliott Clarke (Halifax Chronicle Herald, May 22, 2006)
Wily McKay scores again POETRY | A veteran pair of B.C. poets explore a wealth of dandy metaphoric possibilities, from rock to ocean, finds Barbara Carey by Barbara Carey (The Toronto Star – March 26, 2006)
Chris Hutchinson
Poetry Review: Othering People’s Lives by J.A. Weingarten (Maple Tree Literary Supplement, in association with Carleton University’s English Department)
POETRY: Montreal’s whisy damp permeates first collection by Ariel Gordon (Winnipeg Free Press, January 23, 2010)
TABLE MUSIC: Consciousness and Sense: Chris Hutchinson and Sue Sinclair by Chris Banks, February 28, 2010 (chrisbanksy.blogspot.com)
Chris Hutchinson: Not Unlike by Sean Johnston (Ryga: A Journal of Provocations, Number 2, Winter 2010)
Maureen Hynes
Harm’s Way by Maureen Hynes by Jeffrey Round (What I’ve Been Reading blog, June 2010)
Eve Joseph
Poets prod us to be awake to life by Bill Robertson (Saskatoon StarPhoenix, May 15, 2010)
Michael Kenyon
The Sutler by Michael Kenyon by Matthew J. Trafford (The Dominion, June 14, 2005)
Finely crafted divagations – Michael Kenyon explores the meaning of home in a new collection by Judith Fitzgerald (Globe Daily Review, February 3, 2010)
Barbara Klar
Cypress by Louise Fabiani (Quill and Quire, October 2008)
Poet’s singularity within Cypress Hills by Bill Robertson (Saskatoon StarPhoenix, November 29, 2008)
Brenda Leifso
In Which the Author Reads Some Poetry: Daughters of Men by Brenda Leifso by Lorette C. Luzajic (The Literary Addict blog, July 10, 2008)
Free verse impressive for its rhythmic control by Maurice Mierau (Winnipeg Free Press, August 24, 2008)
Of Obscurity and Signposts by Jesse Patrick Ferguson (Canadian Literature 203 – winter 2009)
Daughters of Men by Amy Bronson (Re:Verse – A Zine for Young Poets – Kime 2009)
Leifso a mix of classicism, feminism, strong imagery by George Elliott Clarke (Halifax Chronicle Herald – May 24, 2009)
Randall Maggs
warrior poetry by John Degen (GLOBE AND MAIL, March 8, 2008)
Flawed hero Sawchuk stars in poetic shutout by Barbara Carey (Toronto Star, March 9, 2008)
Demystifying a legend by Dave Stubbs (Montreal Gazette, March 10, 2008)
Giants of poetry and sport by Bill Robertson (Saskatoon StarPhoenix , May 17, 2008)
The Face Before the Mask by Jamie Dopp, Victoria, British Columbia (The Fiddlehead, Winter 2009, issue 238)
Randall Maggs. Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems by Paul Chafe (Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, Volume 23, Number 2 – fall 2008)
Randall Maggs, Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems by Laurie Graham (The Malahat Review, Issue 164, fall 2008)
Nadine McInnis
Two Hemispheres by Nadine McInnis by Amy Carlberg (www.youngpoets.ca – October, 2007)
Signs of Fall by Colin Morton (OttawaPoetry.blogspot.com – September 11, 2007)
Two Hemispheres by Nadine McInnis by Donald R. Officer (PoetryReviews.ca – April 26, 2008)
Two Hemispheres by Lorette C. Luzajic (LiteraryAddict.wordpress.com – June 17, 2008)
Two Hemispheres by Nadine McInnis by Sylvia Adams (Poetry Corner, Canadian Bookseller, volume 1, 2008)
Two Hemispheres by Nadine McInnis by Carrie Schmidt (Book Reviews, ABQLA Bulletin, spring 2008)
Review of Two Hemispheres, by Nadine McInnis by Anne Burke (Prairie Journal, November 2008)
Steve McOrmond
The Good News About Armageddon by Sean Flinn (The Coast – Halifax – May 13, 2010)
The Good News About Armageddon by Steve McOrmond, Brick by Sean Flinn (Telegraph-Journal, New Brunswick, May 22, 2010)
Review: The Good News About Armageddon by Inkslinger (The Overdecorated Bookcase, July 6, 2010)
Torontonian’s collection focuses on environmental concerns by Ariel Gordon (Winnipeg Free Press – August 28, 2010)
Salty Ink on Steve McOrmond’s Strong Third Offering, THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT ARMAGEDDON by Chad Pelley (Salty Ink – August 28, 2010)
Steve Noyes
In between worlds by Vivian Moreau (Pique Newsmagazine, January 11, 2007)
Ghost Country by Steve Noyes by George Elliott Clarke (Halifax Chronicle-Herald, January 2, 2007)
Romance, drama, exotic settings — verse for lazy summer days by Barbara Carey (The Toronto Star, July 16, 2006)
Well Versed: Direct language often uncanny by Alison Calder (The Winnipeg Free Press, August 27, 2006)
Ghost Country by Steve Noyes by Jane Henderson (The Dominion, March Books – February 23, 2007)
Ghost Country by Steve Noyes by Jason Ranon Uri Rotstein (Malahat Review – Winter 2007)
A Real Dialogue: Ghost Country by Steve Noyes by Shane Neilson (The Fiddlehead – winter 2006, Issue 230)
David O’Meara
Book has brevity, wallop by Maurice Mierau (Winnipeg Free Press, September 28, 2008)
David O’Meara’s Noble Gas, Penny Black by rob mclennan (rob mclennan’s blog, Wednesday, October 8, 2008)
Remarkable trio by Zachariah Wells (Quill and Quire, November 2008)
Of Clarity and Clutter by Brian Campbell (The Rover, November 10, 2008)
The Last Three Poetry Books of my Year by Lorette C. Luzajic (LiteraryAddict.wordpress.com – November 16, 2008)
The Vicinity, David O’Meara, Brick Books, 2003 by Jennifer LoveGrove, George Murray, and Paul Vermeersch (BookNinja.com)
A new direction for Canadian poetry by Carmine Starnino (Globe and Mail, November 22, 2003)
The Vicinity by David O’Meara by Ronnie R. Brown (Canadian Bookseller, November/December 2003)
Noble gases and paper oranges by Quentin Mills-Fenn (Uptown Magazine, Winnipeg – February 26, 2009)
The Vicinity, David O’Meara, Brick Books, 2003 by Anne F. Walker (The Danforth Review)
Rhythm ‘n’ form, with style by Barbara Carey (Toronto Star, February 8, 2004)
Noble Gas, Penny Black by Joanne Epp (Prairie Fire – April 7, 2009)
Noble Gas, Penny Black by David O’Meara by Ian LeTourneau (poetryreviews.ca – April 13, 2009)
Noble Gas, Penny Black by Jesse Patrick Ferguson (Matrix 82, spring 2009)
David O’Meara’s NOBLE GAS, PENNY BLACK by Brian Palmu (brianpalmu.blogspot.com – February 7, 2010)
on David O’Meara: Arriving Early by Carmine Starnino (Arc – summer 2009, volume 62)
Noble Gas, Penny Black by David O’Meara by Jay Ruzesky (Malahat Review # 167 – summer 2009)
Wednesday, April 1, 2009 by Inkslinger (The Overdecorated Bookcase – Wednesday, April 1, 2009)
A Timely Defence by Alessandro Porco (CNQ – Canadian Notes & Queries – issue 76, summer 2009)
by John Degen (Poetry Spoken Here webstore, 2003)
Messages Sent From Spirit to Matter by Tim Bowling (Books in Canada, March 2004)
The Vicinity by David O’Meara by Mark Frutkin (Amazon.ca)
Five Laureates on the Red Earth Road by Harold Rhenisch (Arc Poetry magazine, ARC 53 – winter 2004)
O’Meara prefers plain approach by George Elliott Clarke (Halifax Chronicle Herald, March 8, 2009)
Elizabeth Philips
Glimpses of spiritual in the ‘pause between’ by Bill Robertson (The StarPhoenix, Saturday, August 18, 2007)
For this trio, vive la difference! by George Murray (The Globe and Mail, Saturday, July 14, 2007)
Torch River by Elizabeth Philips by kath maclean (Prairie Fire.ca, April 2008)
River Buzz by Owen Percy (The Goose, spring 2008)
Steven Price
Rookies kicking up their heels by Barbara Carey (The Toronto Star, September 10, 2006)
Anatomy of Keys by Steven Price by Michael Claxton (Magic: the magazine for magicians, September 2006)
Stacked Vowels and Clustered Consonants by Patrick Warner (Books in Canada – December 2006)
Houdini epic is pure magic by Patrick Watson (Globe and Mail, June 23rd, 2006)
The Great Escape by Eye Weekly (Eye Weekly, July 6, 2006, Volume 15, Issue 40)
The Inner Workings of the Lock by Aaron Tucker (www.agorareview.ca, October 9, 2008)
Anatomy of Keys by Sina Queyras (Lemon Hound blogspot – October 4, 2007)
James Reaney
Souwesto Home by James Reaney by Robert J. Wiersema (Quill & Quire, April 2005)
Poems of our clime by Fraser Sutherland (Globe and Mail, April 30, 2005)
Aging literary lions refresh the palate by Barbara Carey (Toronto Star, March 27, 2005)
Souwesto Home by James Reaney by Jesse P. Ferguson (Matrix, August 20, 2005)
Monty Reid
The heart in love – the heart in nature by Bill Robertson (Saskatoon StarPhoenix, January 10, 2009)
Luskville Reductions by rob mclennan (Antigonish Review, Winter 2009)
“No thought is free of the world”: Two Recent Books of Nature Poetry (So-called) by Nicholas Bradley (The Goose – spring 2009, issue 5, pages 59-62)
Monty Reid’s The Luskville Reductions: Poems from a Phantom Settlement by Camille Martin (Rogue Embryo blog, July 13, 2010)
David Seymour
Inter Alia by David Seymour by Regan Taylor (The Dominion, Canada?s Grassroots Newspaper review, December 1, 2005)
Renaming Stillness and Travel by Antje M. Rauwerda (Canadian Literature, spring 2007)
Thought Made More Thoughtful by Daniel Scott Tysdal (Echolocation, issue 6, December 2006)
Our Home, Called Earth by Lynn Davies (The Fiddlehead, Spring 2008, issue 235)
Inter Alia by David Seymour by Warren Heiti (Malahat Review, Issue 155, Summer 2006)
Inter Alia by David Seymour by Donald R. Officer (Tree Lines – Reviews & Commentary, February 2009)
Inter Alia by Amanda Gordon (Re:Verse – A Zine for Young Poets)
Inter Alia by David Seymour by Douglas Barbour (Canadian Book Review Annual, June 2008)
Goran Simic
Politics and Specificity by Warren Heiti (The Fiddlehead, Winter 2005, issue 226)
Sue Sinclair
The Last Three Poetry Books of my Year by Lorette C. Luzajic (LiteraryAddict.wordpress.com – November 16, 2008)
Whirling dervish in verse by Barbara Carey (Toronto Star, January 4, 2009)
Mirror in Mirror: Sue Sinclair’s Meditations on Light and Time by Warren Heiti (The Fiddlehead, issue # 222, winter 2004)
Friday by Inkslinger, March 20, 2009 (The Overdecorated Bookcase blog)
Poetry and Sundry Reviews by George Elliott Clarke (Maple Tree Literary Supplement, January 18, 2010)
Breaker by Sue Sinclair by Jay Ruzesky (Malahat Review # 167 – summer 2009)
Before the Threshold by Gilbert Wesley Purdy (Eclectica, April/May 2010)
Mortal Arguments by Sue Sinclair by Lorri Neilsen Glenn (Antigonish Review, issue 141)
A Review of Mortal Arguments by Brian Bartlett (Books in Canada)
Secrets of Weather and Hope. Mortal Arguments. By Sue Sinclair by Gilbert W. Purdy (Danforth Review, 2007)
Secrets of Weather and Hope. Mortal Arguments. By Sue Sinclair by Gilbert W. Purdy (Danforth Review, 2007)
Carolyn Smart
Hook yourself up by Judith Fitzgerald (Globe and Mail Daily Review on-line, March 23, 2009)
Reading Hooked, by Carolyn Smart by Lorette C. Luzajic – April 9, 2009 (The Girl Can Write blog)
Hooked: seven poems by Carolyn Smart by Jeannie Harrison (The Scoop, June – July 2009, Tamworth, Ontario)
Hooked on Poetry – Carolyn Smart is interviewed by Jeannie Harrison (The Scoop, June – July 2009, Tamworth, Ontario)
Smart’s poems tell real-life stories of women obsessed with men, love by George Elliott Clarke (Halifax Chronicle-Herald, June 14, 2009)
What I’m Reading: Hooked, by Carolyn Smart by David Blomenberg, Poetry Editor (Sycamore Review, May 2, 2009)
Appalling girlhood, mad science and death by Brian Joseph Davis (Eye Weekly, May 20, 2009)
Twenty years of nurturing young writing talent by Kirsteen MacLeod (Queen’s Alumni Review, Volume 84, Issue 2, 2009)
Hooked, seven poems by Carolyn Smart by Sarah Jarvis (Brescia University College newsletter )
International Women’s Day: a celebration in poetry by Melanie Kindrachuk (The Indextrious Reader, March 8, 2010)
Hooked by Carolyn Smart by Mary Katherine Carr (Matrix 83 – summer 2009)
Poetry Corner – Hooked: seven poems by Rob MacLeod (Canadian Bookseller – Volume 3, 2009)
[more poetry] by (Prairie Books NOW – spring 2009)
Hooked by Angela Hickman (Books Under Skin – April 1, 2010)
Karen Solie
Lichen’s Radial Grace and other subtleties of reading pleasures by Michael Redhill (Nuvo Magazine, Spring 2006)
Poet builds new book with vocabulary of mathematics by Heidi Greco (Vancouver Sun, February 25th, 2006)
Modern and Normal by Karen Solie by Andrew Vaisius (Prairie Fire)
The future is now for Canadian verse by George Murray (Globe and Mail, October 15th, 2005)
Modern and Normal, Karen Solie by Donald R. Officer (Tree Lines – Reviews & Commentary, February 2009)
Modern and Normal by Karen Solie by Adebe D.A. (Youngpoets.ca, January 2009)
Griffin Poetry Prize 2002 – Judges’ Citation for Short Haul Engine by Judges for the 2002 Griffin Poetry Prize (The Griffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry)
Beautiful dazzling lies by Lynn Crosbie (Globe and Mail, May 18, 2002)
God, But Not So Pretty by Sonnet L’Abbe (Canadian Literature #176, spring 2003)
Short Haul Engine by Karen Solie by Tom Bowden (Education Digest, February 2004)
Short Haul Engine by Karen Solie by Lyle Neff (League of Canadian Poets webstore, April 2002)
Short Haul Engine by Karen Solie by Sue Sinclair (Malahat Review – Issue 139, Summer 2002)
Modern Takes on What Makes Us Human by Gillian Jerome (Canadian Literature #191, winter 2006)
The Truth Beyond the Equal Sign by Sarah Law (Stride Magazine, September 5, 2007)
Don McKay introduces Karen Solie in Introductions… Poets Present Poets by Don McKay (Introductions… Poets Present Poets (Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2001))
John Steffler
The Grey Islands by John Steffler by Kemeny Babineau (Poetry Spoken Here webstore, 2002)
Book Number 82: The Grey Islands, by John Steffler by Don McKay (What is Stephen Harper Reading? – May 24, 2010)
Anne Szumigalski
Opening the white envelope by Barbara Carey (The Toronto Star, December 10, 2006)
When Earth Leaps Up by Anne Szumigalski by Mary Barnes (Prairie Fire – January 18, 2007)
December Books by Jane Henderson (The Dominion, November 20, 2006)
Deep into our lives by Carmine Stamino (Globe and Mail, August 26, 2006)
WellVersed by Alison Calder (Winnipeg Free Press, July 23, 2006)
Szumigalski cultivated a world where the miraculous was mundane by Bill Robertson (Saskatoon StarPhoenix, September 16, 2006)
Anne Szumigalski’s Hopeful Poetry by Dilia Narduzzi (THE GOOSE, ISSUE 3 (SPRING 2007))
First and Last by Alison Calder (Canadian Literature, summer 2007, issue # 193)
When Earth Leaps Up by Anne Szumigalski by Beryl Baigent (Canadian Book Review Annual, June 2008)
The Secret in the Old Attic: Anne Szumigalski’s Ghost by Lorette Luzajic (Literary Addict, March 1, 2008)
S.E. Venart
Woodshedding by S.E. Venart by Bert Almon (Montreal Review of Books – Issue 24 – fall & winter 2007)
Commitment to confession reminiscent of poet Nowlan by George Elliott Clarke (Halifax Chronicle-Herald, April 6, 2008)
Woodshedding by S.E. Venart by Katia Grubisic (Arc 60, Summer 2008)
Labour and Leaving by Heather Simeney MacLeod (The Goose, 4.2 Fall 2008, ALECC)
Agnes Walsh
Sometimes voice makes the difference by Barbara Carey (The Toronto Star, March 18, 2007)
England, Newfoundland and the universe by Fraser Sutherland (The Globe and Mail, April 28, 2007)
Love poems for the land and its people by Bill Robertson (Saskatoon StarPhoenix, June 2, 2007)
Words of surprise from Toronto, proud lyrics of Newfoundland by George Elliott Clarke (Halifax Chronicle Herald, September 9, 2007)
Sue Wheeler
The ephemeral and the everyday by Alison Pick (Globe and Mail, January 28th, 2006)
Derk Wynand
Dead Man’s Float by Derk Wynand by Warren Heiti (Arc 51, Winter 2003)
Jan Zwicky
Hymns to the home place: A G-G winner refuses to “wipe the map clean” by Barbara Carey (The Toronto Star, September 12, 2004)
Lyrics in Flight by Gillian Jerome (Canadian Literature, issue # 186, Autumn 2005)
Robinson’s Crossing by Jan Zwicky by Andrew Vaisius (Prairie Fire Review of Books – February 3, 2005)
Glen Downie: Poetic Education by Glen Downie (Event, Vol. 34, no 1 – summer 2005)
