Ken Babstock’s third collection might disappoint those hoping for another clutch of tough-luck chronicles along the lines of Mean and its follow-up, Days into Flatspin. While those first two books seemed rooted in the same ... Read More »
March 27, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry
Inter Alia is Toronto-based David Seymour’s first book. The first section – a suite of poems that adopts the geological themes and manner of Seymour’s mentor and editor, Don McKay – is rather uninspired. Entitled ... Read More »
January 12, 2006 | Filed under: Poetry
In a prefatory note to her third full-length collection, Edmonton writer Shawna Lemay says, “The reader who wants these poems is the reader who understands the complicated joy that is entwined with sadness.” In the ... Read More »
January 12, 2006 | Filed under: Poetry
Don McKay has won two Governor General’s Awards and has twice been shortlisted for the Griffin Prize. His latest book is a combination of poems and lyrical philosophical prose pieces, a sequel to his justly ... Read More »
November 22, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry
An Oak Hunch, the new volume of poetry from Toronto poet Phil Hall, is that rarest of poetic beasts: a poetry book that is not so much a collection as an integral whole, an amalgamation ... Read More »
November 22, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry
The title of Prince George, B.C., orchestra manager and former bookseller George Sipos’s poetry collection sounds like a rejection of shopworn imagery, and in the title poem he says, “None of that,/the old tune’s played ... Read More »
October 26, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry
Change in a Razor-backed Season, Fredericton-based poet Michael deBeyer’s second collection, is an interesting sequel to his first book, Rural Night Catalogue. On one hand, this book shares some of the limitations of its predecessor. ... Read More »
October 26, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry
On a high-school rugby trip, my buddy Mike Sullivan, to help pass time on the bus ride, introduced to the team the hilarious game of substituting the word “penis” for the principal noun in any ... Read More »
October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry
He Claims He Is the Direct Heir is Montreal lawyer Lazar Sarna’s fourth poetry collection, but his first in over a quarter-century. In their conceits and concerns and their bleak gallows humour, Sarna’s poems are ... Read More »
October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry
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