by prfire | Jan 28, 2019 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction, Poetry
A seasoned writer of both poetry and fiction, Stuart Ross has melded both forms in Pockets, and has created a brand new experience for fans of both genres. Though the title of the book is Pockets: A Novel, this book is not a novel in the traditional sense. Do not...
by prfire | Jan 15, 2019 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
Believing is not the same as Being Saved, Lisa Martin’s second book of poetry, is a careful examination of grief, change and the lines between things. Throughout the collection, Martin’s speaker is deeply attuned to the mutability of the world. Images blend, timelines...
by prfire | Jan 2, 2019 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
This Wound is a World, the first collection of poetry from Billy-Ray Belcourt, is an act of mourning. The text is pervaded by a sense of loss as the closing lines of the poem “Heartbreak is a White Kid” clearly show: “that our eyes stopped/ believing in what was in...
by prfire | Dec 20, 2018 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
Poetry, possibly more than any other form of literature, rewards the testing of its limits. The boundaries, the margins, the limits, as spaces where language is pushed into ever more heightened and excited states, open the reader and the poet to the possibilities of...
by prfire | Dec 10, 2018 | Book Reviews, Poetry
I am not Mennonite. Nor is Clarise Foster, the editor who curated 29 Mennonite Poets, the first comprehensive collection of Mennonite poetry since the publication of Half in the Sun: An Anthology of Mennonite Writing (Ronsdale Press, 2006) and A Capella: Mennonite...
by prfire | Nov 19, 2018 | Book Reviews, Poetry
Susan Ioannou’s Looking for Light charms and delights. It also feels like a final statement, as if it’s a summing up and a glancing back across the creative process. Chris Faiers’s Foreword suggests one pathway into the three sections of Looking for Light. He...
