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Poetry

The Cheat of Words

By Steve McCaffery

In canto IX of the Inferno, just after we have been titillated and terrified by the Furies, Dante turns to his reader and says: “O ye who have sane intellects for guide/Consider well the doctrines ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Science Lessons

By W.H. New

Past midnight he stands outside, breathing awaythe day, scanning the broad wash of starshorizon to horizon...This quotation from “Astronomy,” one of a sequence of 80 sonnets in W.H. New’s first collection of poetry, entitled Science ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

White Crane Spreads Wings

By Gary Hyland

The deft formalism of this collection, combined with a lively eye for detail, makes White Crane Spreads Wings a pleasure. Though intimate or personal subjects may be treated, each of the poems here is allowed ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Land to Light on

By Dionne Brand

I am reading this book, Land to Light On, this collection of poetry, this history, this anger, this celebration. Or am I? I have the impression that I am not reading. I am listening. Is ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Apparatus

By Don McKay

I am reading this book, Land to Light On, this collection of poetry, this history, this anger, this celebration. Or am I? I have the impression that I am not reading. I am listening. Is ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

The Disorder of Love

By Karen Connelly

With The Disorder of Love, her third collection of poetry, Calgary native Karen Connelly maps the often-rocky terrain of romantic and familial relationships. Divided into three sections, the book contains poems set in Greece and ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Trouble Sleeping

By Phil Hall

Phil Hall describes his latest work as a haiban, “a Japanese form of interwoven journey-prose and poetry,” which he uses to explore his troubled childhood in Rokeby, situated in northeastern Ontario. Trouble Sleeping evokes the ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry