Crossing a Grave in Harmonium by David Groulx (phafours press, 2020) has 18 deft, moving and lacerating poems. Here’s one: Daydreaming in Blood My blood’s red like a star dying like the marsh inside my veins the horses, much, shoulder deep heaving out a single thoughts: blood, a place I sometimes go $12 including domestic […]
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footlights coming
Pearl Pirie’s 4th poetry collection, footlights, is “ lyric grief-work, and joy-work, loss, resilience and finding small beauties”. It releases in October 2020. Preorder to receive it first! Show me you and your copy and I’ll send you book swag: footlights: the colouring book. Ask your local library for copies. Give it for all the seasonal holidays! Review it and […]
95Books CWILA Self-Audit
Alright, I admit I’m bogged. I have a couple dozen books left to summarize from last year and the year is getting on. I don’t know if I can pare out the time before February. Following it is the breakdown on self-audit on categories of reading. In 2014 I read 144 titles, which is only […]
95 Books for 2014, List 3, Vividly Living
I’m at least a dozen or so behind in my listing books completed. I’ll try to chunk these into smaller lengths so each instalment is only a few instead of pages of scroll. The Hottest Summer in Recorded History by Elizabeth Bachinsky (Nightwood, 2013) It feels more like a book than most, not in the […]
Cento and Self-Expression
A cento is a poem form where you also don’t use any of your own words. You have stacks of books that get passed around and perhaps on a 5 minute or 15 minute timer you grab and transcribe on your page. The object is to pull what stands out verbatim and move to the […]