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 […]
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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 […]
How to Write
I have seen a few people who like myself who initially saw the title and grabbed it, then set it down puzzled and moved on immediately As a sort of conceptual poetry, it has two layers: the immediate payoff and the wtf is this that opens up questions of process and authorship. It’s a book […]