by Lindsey | Sep 21, 2021 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
Best Canadian Poetry 2020 is a radical and wholly revelatory re-imagining of the country’s poetry canon. As Amanda Jernigan, advisory editor of the well-regarded series states in her preface, guest editor Marilyn Dumont’s carefully curated collection “is not English,...
by Lindsey | Aug 11, 2021 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
A place is never simple, it is always shot through with the histories, symbols, and identities that collide and contest it, by the accrual of meanings over time and the conversations between those meanings. Given the role place often plays in how we understand and...
by Lindsey | Jun 7, 2021 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
In The Perfect Archive, Hamilton poet, archivist and librarian Paul Lisson stretches the boundaries of poetry and prose to perform an exacting/extracting critique of the archive. Reminiscent of Kafka, radical and irreverent, the archive at the centre of this dark tale...
by Lindsey | Apr 23, 2021 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
Answering civil rights advocate James Baldwin’s call to witness, Valerie Mason-John’s I Am Still Your Negro: An Homage to James Baldwin, is an uncompromising account of the historic and ongoing trauma of the slave trade, gender disparity, homocentric norms, and our...
by Lindsey | Mar 29, 2021 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
How do you choose the best in language and say this is the finest? In Best Canadian Poetry 2019 editors, Anita Lahey, Amanda Jernigan and guest editor, Rob Taylor, would have searched through thousands of submissions to discover why a certain poem would be enjoyable...
by Lindsey | Mar 17, 2021 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
M(other): “I’m foreign, and she is home” In de Meijer’s sophomore collection, motherhood is defined as a “submerged world” into which former modes of being are subsumed or filtered through (24). These lyrical poems have a quiet, expansive grace, allowing for judicious...
