by prfire | Jan 24, 2013 | Book Reviews, Poetry
The main difference between travellers of old and today’s wanderers is that the former did not have to travel far from home to find themselves in a truly alien and dangerous territory teeming with shadows and tricksters. One could either perish there or overcome real...
by prfire | Jan 24, 2013 | Book Reviews, Poetry
An accomplished poet with several books of poetry, David Groulx presents us with a new collection, A Difficult Beauty. And with it, he gives us a glimpse into the physical, emotional, and spiritual losses experienced by the Aboriginal peoples at the hands of white...
by prfire | Jan 24, 2013 | Book Reviews, Fiction
Dave Williamson’s protagonist, Jenkins, is horny. His wife of many years, Barbara, passed away a couple of years before. And now, Jenkins is looking for love in all the wrong places. Will Jenkins find love or, at least, a cure for his horniness? That’s what this novel...
by prfire | Oct 24, 2012 | Book Reviews, Poetry
Rob Taylor’s debut collection, The Other Side of Ourselves – which in an earlier version won the Alfred G. Bailey Prize for an unpublished poetry manuscript – shows considerable talent and imagination. Here is a poet who likes to play with a variety of traditional...
by prfire | Oct 24, 2012 | Book Reviews, Poetry
Peter Norman’s debut poetry collection covers a lot of ground without staking out any particular section as its very own. Norman rhymes a bit, messes with perspectives, fiddles with techniques, primps a tendency to lists and catalogues, and it all sounds refreshing...
by prfire | Oct 24, 2012 | Book Reviews, Poetry
During a taping of the radio show Speaking of Poets, Patrick Friesen and I were discussing the trip he took to Spain in 2010, following an earlier one to both Spain and Portugal in 2005. Patrick, who doesn’t appear to do anything in half measures, was delighting me...
