Radiant Shards: Hoda’s North End Poems

Adele Wiseman’s classic 1974 novel, Crackpot, provides inspiration for this narrative poem by Wiseman scholar and Ryerson University English professor Ruth Panofsky. Here, Panofsky attempts a poetic rendering of the life of Crackpot’s saucy protagonist, ... Read More »

April 6, 2020 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

The Haunted Hand

By Louise Dupré; Donald Winkler (trans.)

Of all the contributions to literary criticism made by the French structuralist and linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, arguably the most enduring is his distinction between langue and parole. In Saussure’s conception, the latter refers to ... Read More »

April 2, 2020 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

Spawn

By Marie-Andrée Gill; Kristen Renee Miller (trans.)

April 2, 2020 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ As Far As You Know

By A.F. Moritz

Toronto poet laureate A.F. Moritz’s latest collection, As Far As You Know, is a symposium on mortality and meaning, and yet another opportunity to showcase the poet as master craftsman. Moritz’s poetry acts as transcendence ... Read More »

March 30, 2020 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

In the Vicinity of Riches

By Chris Hutchinson

March 30, 2020 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ Field Notes for the Self

By Randy Lundy

March 30, 2020 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

Accretion

By Irfan Ali

Irfan Ali Brick Books A lot of 21st-century English-language poetry has been marked by an irreverent and implicitly self-absolving stance toward truth and meaning. What stands out about the poems in Irfan Ali’s debut collection ... Read More »

March 26, 2020 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

My Art Is Killing Me and Other Poems

By Amber Dawn

In her sophomore poetry collection, Vancouver’s Amber Dawn explores various dissonances in her personal life and career: her poems address Hollywood, academia, the internet, and the poet’s experiences as a queer femme, former sex worker, ... Read More »

March 26, 2020 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

Washes, Prays

By Noor Naga

Noor Naga’s debut book of poetry is an intimately written interrogation of female desire and spiritual belief played out in the context of an extramarital affair. Naga dwells in the alternating solace and crisis presented by ... Read More »

March 16, 2020 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

The Gospel of Breaking

By Jillian Christmas

In The Gospel of Breaking, poet and spoken-word artist Jillian Christmas invites readers into a world of sacred identities. Combining delicate imagery and rhythmic verse, these poems blend the personal with the political to yield truth. ... Read More »

March 16, 2020 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

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Quill and Quire

Radiant Shards: Hoda’s North End Poems

The Haunted Hand

Spawn

★ As Far As You Know

In the Vicinity of Riches

★ Field Notes for the Self

Accretion

My Art Is Killing Me and Other Poems

Washes, Prays

The Gospel of Breaking

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