Lampert: Bertrand Bickersteth – The Response of Weeds (NeWest Press, 2020), Jillian Christmas – the gospel of breaking (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020), Valerie Mason-John – I Am Still Your Negro (University of Alberta Press, 2020), Bahar Orang – Where Things Touch (Book*hug Press, 2020), Tyler Pennock – Bones (Brick Books, 2020), and Natasha Ramoutar – Bittersweet (Mawenzi House, 2020) For Raymond Souster: Sadiqa de Meijer – The Outer Wards (Véhicule Press/Signal Poetry, 2020), Klara du Plessis – Hell […]
Category Archives: PSA, Poetry
Poetry Postering
A project of Deanna Young, Ottawa’s English poet laureate is to poster the streets with poetry. 21 are taped around the core I believe.
Pat Lowther
footlights is on the 2021 longlist for Pat Lowther Award, for Canadian women poets. The award carries a $2000 prize, and is sponsored by the LCP. See the rest of the dozen excellent books at the League site, or below. Some of these are my favourites of the year, including Burning Sugar, the Gospel of […]
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.