by Lindsey | Mar 30, 2022 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
Following Sea, the title of Lauren Carter’s 2019 poetry collection, is a nautical term that means a boat is moving in the same direction as the waves. But it also describes a sea pushing from behind, a sea that can cause a vessel to swamp or plow under the wave just...
by Lindsey | Mar 14, 2022 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
Sheri Benning’s fourth book of poems, Field Requiem, takes its title and structure from the Latin Requiem Mass that is offered as a eulogy to the dead. The collection is divided into five sections and witnesses the social and ecological impact that the agro-industry...
by Lindsey | Mar 2, 2022 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
Diana Hope Tegenkamp’s debut book of poetry, Girl running, is a fascinating collection filled with vivid language and startling images that invites us to reflect on sudden disappearances, tender daily connections and spectral appearances which haunt and reveal. The...
by Lindsey | Feb 22, 2022 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
The poems in What is Long Past Occurs in Full Light: New Poetry, Marilyn Bowering’s most recent poetry collection, wrap with care around the tender pairings of presence and absence, the present and the past. In each of the book’s three parts—“Missing,” “Woof –at the...
by Lindsey | Feb 11, 2022 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
August Into Winter by Saskatchewan writer Guy Vanderhaeghe is an enormous gift to fiction lovers: a wonderfully paced, character-driven novel of ideas, an authentic depiction of individuals and a world in crisis. The year is 1939, war is on the horizon, and in the...
by Lindsey | Jan 24, 2022 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
nedi nezu (Good Medicine), a poetry collection by Tenille K. Campbell, lets readers into her life to intimately experience themes of life, dating, sex and relationships. Like her first poetry book, #IndianLovePoems, Campbell continues to offer a fresh Indigenous...
