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Poetry

By Hannah Green

  In this cinematic debut poetry collection, Hannah Green features the Xanax Cowboy (XC) as the main character of a metadrama of anxiety and its effects. In Green’s impressive character study of existential complexity and ... Read More »

April 5, 2023 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

By Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike

In two new poetry collections, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike’s there’s more and Laila Malik’s archipelago, home is a moving, shifting entity. Umezurike’s first poem opens with the line, “Home is what the tortoise bears on its ... Read More »

March 29, 2023 | Filed under: Poetry

By Laila Malik

In two new poetry collections, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike’s there’s more and Laila Malik’s archipelago, home is a moving, shifting entity. Umezurike’s first poem opens with the line, “Home is what the tortoise bears on its ... Read More »

March 29, 2023 | Filed under: Poetry

By Evelyn Lau

Cactus Gardens is the latest collection by award-winning author and former Vancouver poet laureate Evelyn Lau. Furthering her work of the last decade, the book is a testament to the craft inherent to confessional poetry ... Read More »

October 19, 2022 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

By Michael Crummey

“A hundred feet of line is as far / as we ever manage to travel / from our selves,” declares the speaker in “Tranströmer on Signal Hill,” the second poem in Michael Crummey’s Passengers. The ... Read More »

July 27, 2022 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews