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 […]
Category Archives: reviews
footlights Review
Kim Fahner was so kind as to review footlights at Periodicities on Jan 3. She says in part, “In “lifting for the purposes of night,” six beautiful couplets carve out vivid images and phrases: the moon’s face is both up and downwards. in incandescence a glossy-leafed houseplant feels how the bottom of an airplane wing lifts, night sky […]
reviews of Water Loves its Bridges
Comments by gillian harding-russell on one of the publications in Series Twenty-four from The Alfred Gustav Press, December 2020 (with more responses to come): In “Water Loves Its Bridges,” Pearl Pirie uses the epistolary haibun to explore her loss and the nature of her relationship with her father, not so much in retrospect as in […]
Review: A Song of Milestones
A Song of Milestones by Jennifer Wenn, (Harmonia Press, 2019) is a chapbook from Harmonia Press, now an imprint of Beliveau Books (https://beliveaubooks.wixsite.com/home/books). A record of the poet’s journey, it is frankly and aptly titled. For its short length, it covers decades to retirement age, but poems are not vague. They zero in on key […]
Review: The Other Side of Ourselves
In The Other Side of Ourselves (Cormorant Books, 2011) Rob Taylor looks at the material of everyday life—scrubbing a pot, a wet cat shaking in the house, lying in bed awake, remembering learning to shave, doing the ironing—and fishes beneath that material for take-aways. The book, heading into its second printing, would seem to have […]