Linda Rogers’ latest collection of poems is a delicate masterwork of brutality, a rich evocation of the tragedy and magic of human existence. Little prepares the reader for the intensity and deep pleasure The Saning ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
Bud Osborn is one of those rare poets with something important to say. And we should listen. In fact, Hundred Block Rock should be required reading for every CEO in North America … not to ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
Here is a keen observer, charting day-to-day experience in poems of loss and quiet celebration. A series of elegies, The Strength of Materials reflects Rhea Tregebov’s understanding of the human passage through time. Her resilient ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry
The philosophy behind the by-now-familiar Gen X posture is that the only way to protect yourself from cliché and pretension is to refer frequently to the silliest pop-culture material you can get your mittens on. ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry
As the title suggests, Vancouver writer Shani Mootoo’s first collection of poetry catalogues the many “in-betweens” formed by a world of either/or choices and definitions. As in her award-winning novel, Cereus Blooms at Night, Mootoo ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry
Stan Rogal’s fourth book of poems opens with an “introduction” by Andrew Marvell, who, as he explains, has been “summoned” to comment on Rogal’s manuscript. The 17th-century ghost offers a textbook definition of metaphysical verse ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry
Anne Michaels’ third collection of poetry continues the work of her groundbreaking 1996 novel, Fugitive Pieces. Readers who know Michaels through her novel alone will recognize the striking lyricism of Skin Divers. A profound interest ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
Reading Lillian Allen, one is reminded that there are people in the world for whom poetry is raison d’être: “Writing poetry is the work of the soul.” The poems of this multi-disciplinary Caribbean-born, Toronto-based artist ... Read More »
February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
Certain things in this world are still better when they’re made the old-fashioned way. Certain things, but not always art. When art is made the old-fashioned way, it just feels, well, old-fashioned. As a poet, ... Read More »
February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
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