83. A Cartography of Home by Hayden Saunier (Terrapin Books, 2021) is a relatable American collection and Saunier’s fifth. I was granted a review copy from the press. Saunier is an actor and organizer of a poetry and improv group. Her poems remind me closest of Catherine Graham’s storytelling poems. The collection propelled me to […]
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Chapbook Spotlight: Sex in Sevens
This is an addition to the CanLit poetic tradition of sex-at followed by a few (Barry McKinnon, Brian Fawcett, George Stanley, Artie Gold, rob mclennan, Mark Cochrane and Kate Van Dusen) of checking in with how sex is every few years. sex at 38 ii: I don’t want to washthe sheets. it would lose the […]
Chapbook Spotlight: Quebec Passages
the quickness travel reduces us to the excretory feeding tubes that we are. baby birds, all of us. dim, too dim to see. give me a flashlight to glow the pink stretch between the translucent beaks of books. will mother return? should the food cart not return, should it return empty except for the sound […]
Chapbook spotlight: Vertigoheel
god as my colophon, devil as my colon: a scarf and a necklace are decorations of defiance. after a lifetime-promise: female means choked, I swear a name ripens on my tongue, its juice loosens my teeth, its sweetness more acidic than it tasted on the way down. not easy to float in a water-filled boat. […]