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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

The Bare Plum of Winter Rain

By Patrick Lane

Patrick Lane’s newest collection of poetry filters the big questions – about life, death, and all that happens in between – through the soft light of nostalgia. Earnest and unadorned, Lane’s poems are misty-eyed meditations ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Resurrection in the Cartoon

By Robert Priest

Torontonian Robert Priest’s first collection of poems in seven years is a decidedly mixed bag. A sometimes ironic, sometimes angry investigation of contemporary culture, the book tackles a wide variety of subjects. There are several poems ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Asphodel

By Michael Redhill

Asphodel is so many books in one. If Toronto writer Michael Redhill were not so persistent in his return to a central rumination on the slow approach of death, I would have thought this a ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

America & Other Poems

By Jeff Bien

“The poet must know style,” writes Jeff Bien in Prosody at the Cafe du Coin “or he will simply be a complainer.” This eastern Ontario poet has style: entire oceans, trans-continental highways, and sprawling metropoli ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Prosody at the Cafe Du Coin

By Jeff Bien

“The poet must know style,” writes Jeff Bien in Prosody at the Cafe du Coin “or he will simply be a complainer.” This eastern Ontario poet has style: entire oceans, trans-continental highways, and sprawling metropoli ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry