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...
by Lindsey | Dec 17, 2020 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
By the third line of the first poem in My Heart is a Rose Manhattan, Nikki Reimer writes that her new work, this work, “is grief.” It is a grief that she will acknowledge again in the closing lines of that poem when she apologizes for both her grief and her new work....
by Lindsey | Oct 14, 2020 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
There is a sensual, affirming candor to the poems in Glitter & Fall, Winnipeg poet Di Brandt’s reimagining of the Dao De Jing, a text that dates from the fourth century B.C.E., but that remains essential reading for those interested in the Chinese philosophical...
by Prairie Fire | Sep 24, 2020 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
Review by Mary Barnes We live in the 21st century where society seems to have progressed and reached a place of great achievements. Yet, there are still repercussions from the near annihilation of the indigenous peoples. They run deep, and the only way to release past...
by nicole | Jul 31, 2020 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
Hannah Finch is eleven years old. Almost twelve. She is a troubled girl, abused and alone. Her mother is dead. One week before Christmas, she leaves the place she calls home and steps out into a winter storm. Eric Nyland, a retired RCMP officer, on his way to...
