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Poetry

By Stephanie Bolster

Two Bowls of Milk is the follow-up to Stephanie Bolster’s debut collection of poems, White Stone: The Alice Poems, which won the 1998 Governor General’s Award for poetry. Whereas White Stone was tightly conceived around ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

By Esta Spalding

Poet and critic Fraser Sutherland recently remarked in The Globe and Mail on the healthy state of Canadian poetry and noted the even distribution of male and female poets writing in this country. Fans will ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

By David Waltner-Toews

In The Fat Lady Struck Dumb, his sixth book of poems, David Waltner-Toews convicts himself of “the crime” identified in one of his cheerfully reflective poems: “that a man can still be amateur.” Fortunately Waltner-Toews ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

By Libby Scheier

Libby Scheier’s Kaddish for My Father brings together new and selected material from earlier collections. The first half of the volume includes new poetry and prose commemorating Scheier’s father, who died in 1997, and exploring ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

By Betsy Struthers

In her latest book of poems, poet and mystery novelist Betsy Struthers is standing midstream, mid-career, mid-life, looking at both shores. These are poems of positioning: where to stand in relation, how to carry what ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

By Maureen Hynes

The title poem of Maureen Hynes’s second collection depicts the book as a sort of travel narrative for Amazons: “Some of us wear a piece of the road as an amulet/over our breastbones.” The book’s ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

By Richard Outram

Beginning Dove Legend, the newest collection by award-winning Toronto poet Richard Outram, is a little like entering a foreign language. Outram’s conventional poetic forms and strict rhymes, combined with his use of archaic language, will ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry