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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), […]

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 […]

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 […]