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Poetry

Oyama Pink Shale

By Sharon Thesen

In the first section of “Five Preludes,” the opening poem of Sharon Thesen’s ninth collection, a woman is caught in a moment of indecision about which hat she should wear when going out. Each of ... Read More »

July 26, 2011 | Filed under: Poetry

Folk

By Jacob McArthur Mooney

Inspired in part by the 1998 crash of Swiss-air Flight 111 offshore of Nova Scotia, Jacob McArthur Mooney’s second collection examines human tragedy and the limits of community. Folk undertakes an intelligent effort to reject ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Poetry

Methodist Hatchet

By Ken Babstock

Ken Babstock sprinkled a few of the poems collected in Methodist Hatchet in journals across Canada. These poems were alternately baffling and amazing, and many of them contained aphorisms that will be mined – rightly, ... Read More »

May 9, 2011 | Filed under: Poetry

The Fetch

By Nico Rogers

Nico Rogers’ collection of prose poems about life in the outport towns of Newfoundland a generation ago has a close precedent in Michael Crummey’s Hard Light (1988), also published by Brick Books. The first half ... Read More »

April 6, 2011 | Filed under: Poetry

Civil and Civic

By Jonathan Bennett

There’s nothing terribly civil about the title poem in Jonathan Bennett’s second collection, which describes a political protest that tumbles headlong into anarchic violence when the “blunt harm of a brick” is thrown at riot ... Read More »

March 21, 2011 | Filed under: Poetry