Orion Sweeping by Anne Marie Todkill (Brick, 2022) has a cover of a pen and ink fox and moon by Arthur Balitskiy I’d consider framing. Divided into four self-explanatory sections: “Earth”, “Air”, “Familia”, “Loss Lessons” and “Assisi Variations”, the book has some overlap with Nuclear Family by Jean van Loon (McGill Queens University Press 2022), […]
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Review: The Muse Sings
The Muse Sings by Dennis Cooley (At Bay Press, 2020) was great fun. I’ve long admired the playfulness of Dennis Cooley. This is his 21st book. His abcedarium (University of Albert Press, 2014) has a freewheeling sort of swirl of concrete poetry and “is the letter “a,” a letting out, eh” or p. 68 on a typo […]
Review: Locked in Different Alphabets
Locked in Different Alphabets by Doris Fiszer (Silver Bow Publishing, 2020) is debut collection by an Ottawa poet. I’ve had the privilege of seeing some of these poems as they developed since Fiszer and I overlapped for a time in the same writing group. I’ve read some iterations of the poems in her chapbooks The […]
Reviews
Many people have said some really nice things about my poems, books and chapbooks. Rather than the old haphazard, mostly chronological page, I’ve sorted quotes by title under Reviews.
Books Read #95books
19. The House Dreaming in the Cold by Tom Wayman (The Alfred Gustav Press, 2020). It’s been years since I’ve read any Wayman. My Father’s Cup in 2002 was the last book of his I had, more than 10 books ago. I’ll peg that on the East/West Coast divide of CanLit. Like others who read […]
Available for Review
Reader Aware: More readers, buyers and reviews welcome. They say it takes 7 or 8 presentations of the same book before one latches on that a book exists and checks it out. I have copies for review or purchase of Not Quite Dawn (haiku and tanka by me), Crossing a Grave in Harmonium by David […]