Throwback: Island by Douglas Walbourne-Gough
This is a particularly raw collection of poetry, I felt, the blank verse tumbling across the page in a cry to be read and felt.
April is Poetry Month
Do It Wrong: How to be a Poet in the Twenty-first Century by Derek Beaulieu
Beaulieu asks, why are we writing?
Ox Lost, Snow Deep by Alice Burdick
Her latest collection of poems taps into the strange beauty of the unexpected, the uncanny, the disregarded and the unconventional. Burdick also dances with absurdism, not-so-gently mocking our earnest search for meaning and using dark humour to comment on the human condition.
UNMET: poems by stephanie roberts
It’s lovely to read a collection and not once be pestered by the question, why is this a poem? Like her previous poems are not facile or conversational narratives. They are dense and intense.
Warp and Weft by Carla Stein
I was delighted to receive Carla’s latest, Warp and Weft, a beautifully stitched chapbook of poems and paintings.
A Beautiful Rebellion: poems by Rita Bouvier
There’s a gentle humility in persisting and insisting in the poem to build a better world.
Us from Nothing by Geoff Bouvier
Geoff Bouvier has produced a kind of long poem we haven’t seen for a long time in North America. Us from Nothing is an experiment in the epic that isn’t either doggerel or primarily parody.
“The Poetry Game” Yields Intriguing Results: Frog Pond Review Issue 4, Edited by Misha Solomon
This brief collection offers some captivating images.
Deviant by Patrick Grace
Deviant as a poetry collection not only challenges accepted standards, but excavates beauty from social derision. Grace is surefooted and defiant, torquing queer love and male hostility into language that lulls and then lashes.
Stranger in a Strange Land: I Imagine My Brother as an Island by Morris Bailey
A shimmer of vulnerability permeates the poems in Montreal poet Morris Bailey’s debut chapbook I Imagine My Brother as an Island.
Michael and Me by Merle Nudelman
Stitched together in Merle Nudelman’s new book of poetry, Michael and Me, are the “buried heartbeat of rectangles”: a memory quilt of 39 patches of a mother’s love for her son, and the son’s own legacy of love through his family
Ethics, Aesthetics, Woolf Waves, Foxtrots: Wrong Norma by Anne Carson
From its striking, foxy cover to print layout and coloured illustrations, Anne Carson’s miscellany, Wrong Norma, is a beautiful book that reflects its aesthetics on every page.
Why I Wrote This Book: Issue #26
Why do your favourite Canadian authors write the books they write? Let’s find out in this exclusive feature here at The Miramichi Reader.
