Jeremy Bloom, a character first introduced in The D- Poems of Jeremy Bloom: A Collection of Poems About School Homework and Life (Sort Of), has returned. In this second Jeremy Bloom book , we once ... Read More »
March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
“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
“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
In 1995, prolific Brantford poet John B. Lee won the CBC Tilden Award for “Kicheraboo, We Are Dying,” an ethnographically valuable series of poems about slavery and the history of blacks in Upper Canada. The ... Read More »
March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry
Michael Crummey’s first book of poems, Arguments with Gravity is broken into five sections, each introduced by a contemporary epigram that encapsulates the poet’s concerns and acknowledges his influences. Unfortunately, everyone else is alive in ... Read More »
March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry
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
The biographical note to Marya Fiamengo’s latest collection describes the West Vancouver writer ... Read More »
March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
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
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
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