by Lindsey | Mar 2, 2022 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
Diana Hope Tegenkamp’s debut book of poetry, Girl running, is a fascinating collection filled with vivid language and startling images that invites us to reflect on sudden disappearances, tender daily connections and spectral appearances which haunt and reveal. The...
by Lindsey | Feb 22, 2022 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
The poems in What is Long Past Occurs in Full Light: New Poetry, Marilyn Bowering’s most recent poetry collection, wrap with care around the tender pairings of presence and absence, the present and the past. In each of the book’s three parts—“Missing,” “Woof –at the...
by Lindsey | Jan 24, 2022 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
nedi nezu (Good Medicine), a poetry collection by Tenille K. Campbell, lets readers into her life to intimately experience themes of life, dating, sex and relationships. Like her first poetry book, #IndianLovePoems, Campbell continues to offer a fresh Indigenous...
by Lindsey | Oct 19, 2021 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
It sometimes feels like the expressiveness of the typewriter as a tool for composition is one of the best kept secrets in poetry and poetics. The ability to mark the page or to type over the marks already there, to feed the page through at different angles in order to...
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...
