Quill and Quire

Poetry

Expressway

By Sina Queyras

In her first book of poems since her collection Lemon Hound, Montreal-based Sina Queyras employs the Romantic tradition of pastoral poetry to create passionate indictments of our consumerist, car-obsessed culture and our fast-lane mentality. In ... Read More »

April 29, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Pigeon

By Karen Solie

Karen Solie achieved near-instant acclaim with the multiple award nominations and wins heaped on her first collection, Short Haul Engine. If her excellent follow-up, Modern and Normal, didn’t prove outright that Solie wasn’t resting on ... Read More »

April 29, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry

Gun Dogs

By James Langer

For a first book, Gun Dogs is assured and mature, clearly the product of a lengthy and well-spent apprenticeship. James Langer is one of several Canadian poets, including Steven Price, Matt Rader, and Joe Denham, ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry

Hooked

By Carolyn Smart

In The World’s Wife, contemporary Scottish poet Carol Ann Duffy created feminist subversions of a male-centric tradition by giving voice to the wives of significant male figures, both fictional and actual.    Carolyn Smart attempts something ... Read More »

February 18, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry

The Second Blush

By Molly Peacock

Few contemporary poets have achieved the feat that Molly Peacock has: to attract a base of readers who would not ordinarily read poetry. With her first five collections, she has managed to span the gap ... Read More »

February 18, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry

The Book Collector

By Tim Bowling

The Book Collector is Edmonton-based poet Tim Bowling’s eighth collection. Add to that three novels, a collection of interviews edited by him, and the 2007 memoir The Lost Coast, and you’ve got one industrious writer. ... Read More »

January 19, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry

I & I

By George Elliott Clarke

In an introductory note coyly entitled “Directions,” George Elliott Clarke explains the self-indulgent premise of his latest book of poetry. I & I links “phrases and images cannibalized […] from adolescent inklings.” It is the ... Read More »

January 19, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry