How to Grow Your Own Light Bulbs

No stranger to fans of local micro press publications, veteran Toronto language writer John Riddell is the author of Criss-Cross and E clips E, as well as the creator of assorted textual goodies that have ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

★ White Linen Remembered

By Marya Fiamengo

The biographical note to Marya Fiamengo’s latest collection describes the West Vancouver writer ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Anchoress

By Esta Spalding

In her second book, Toronto poet Esta Spalding ambitiously attempts an entire narrative in verse. Anchoress is a book-length poem that explores the relationship between two American sisters (Helen and France), their Canadian lover (Peter), ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

★ The Hidden Room: Collected Poems/Volumes One and Two

By P.K. Page; P.K. Page

Every few years an important and essential book emerges reminding us of the rich and impressive legacy of our best senior poets. I think of Milton Acorn’s Dig Up My Heart, Irving Layton’s A Wild ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Time Capsule: New and Selected Poems

By Pat Lowther

A violent death will often overshadow a life. From poet Sylvia Plath to rapper Notorious B.I.G., there are those whose work will forever be searched for clues about their deaths. West Coast poet Pat Lowther, ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Progeny of Ghosts: Travels in Russia and the Old Empire

By David Manicom

David Manicom’s Progeny is a personal love poem and souvenir to his adopted home between 1991 and 1994. A Canadian diplomat and poet in Moscow during post-Communist collapse, Manicom’s account of Russia’s recent tumultuous history ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Queen Rat: New and Selected Poems

By Lynn Crosbie

This selection, it is really more of a collection, is the very opposite of the proverbial slim volume of poems. From the five non-angels in “Pentangeli” to the ultimate grace of “Pearl,” this work demands ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Archive for Our Times: The Previously Uncollected and Unpublished Poems of Dorothy Livesay

By Dean J. Irvine, ed.

This volume of poems – previously uncollected and unpublished – by modernist writer Dorothy Livesay is an invaluable addition to the poet’s oeuvre. Editor Dean Irvine has produced a work that will satisfy scholar and ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Poetic Designs: An Introduction to Meters, Verse Forms and Figures of Speech

By Stephen Adams

Few things are more daunting to students of language than meter and scansion. The very mention of the words can glaze the eye or quicken the pulse with panic. The impulse of teachers is often ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

The Mennonite Madonna

By Diane Driedger

Much of the poetry currently issued in Canada is the product of small presses, whose efforts and commitment to publishing new poets often goes largely unnoticed in the mainstream media.Each of these debut volumes, published ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

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