Indirection by Susanna Peremartoni
About the author: Full name Peremartoni Nagy Zsuzsanna. Susanna Peremartoni graduated in Miskolc and Budapest. From the age of 23, she lived in Darmstadt, Germany, as a ceramic assistant. She…
While Crossing the Field by Deborah Banks
While Crossing the Field is Deborah Banks’s debut book of poetry. Her poems take us out onto the land where experiences in the natural world are filtered through the internal landscape of longing, presence, gratitude, and attentiveness.
Side Effects May Include Strangers By Dominik Parisien
I have to admit I was not prepared for how exquisite the first poem “Let Us For A Moment Call This Pain By Other Words” is in Dominik Parisien’s debut…
The Fire: A Poem by Cynthia Sharp and Timothy Shay
[Note from Cynthia Sharp and Timothy Shay: “The Fire is our response to the forest fires that devour the Cascadia region in the overly hot summers resulting from climate change….
Lisbon Morning by Susanna Peremartoni
About the author: Full name Peremartoni Nagy Zsuzsanna. Susanna Peremartoni graduated in Miskolc and Budapest. From the age of 23, she lived in Darmstadt, Germany, as a ceramic assistant. She…
Tùkhòne: Where the River Narrows and Shores Bend by D.A. Lockhart
Although the title of this book suggests sadness and shadows, it also raises awareness and hope. Here to convey the losses and changes of Tùkhòne area, Lockhart applies Japanese lyric forms with his ancestral moon movements and his lost dialect.
New Poetry from Cynthia Sharp: The Temple of Trees & In An Evergreen Altar
Author and poet Cynthia Sharp has submitted two of her newest poems, “The Temple of Trees” and “In an Evergreen Altar” written to Jilly Watson’s painting Sanctuary (see below) for a book…
Queen and Carcass by Anna van Valkenburg
[A] rich, unpredictable, and deeply surreal exploration of identity and the multiple contradictions we each embody. These poems, set in locations real and imaginary, magical and banal, inhabited by figures…
Waiting by Susanna Peremartoni
Susanna Peremartoni graduated in Miskolc and Budapest. From the age of 23 she lived in Darmstad, Germany, as a ceramic assistant. She has exhibited in Helsinki and Vienna. She published…
WAR MUSKET GRASS Bay of Fundy/Herbes, simulacres de mousquets (Baie de Fundy) by Donna Allard
WAR MUSKET GRASS Bay of Fundy I see no soldier’s uniform as I walk along these shores but fresh blood cliffs, musket grass, and a labyrinth of our relics, the…
The Only Card In A Deck of Knives by Lauren Turner
In her debut collection The Only Card In A Deck of Knives out with Wolsak &Wynn publishers, the poet Lauren Turner takes us “to the edge of something” as she…
A Memoir in Poetry: You Won’t Always Be This Sad by Sheree Fitch
I opened up Sheree Fitch’s memoir in poetry You Won’t Always be this Sad and was sobbing by page thirty. The famous Maritime author breaks our hearts once again as…
Sea Glass Circe by Irina Moga
A spin on poetry review. Exploration in verse. Nature. Flora, fauna, feelings felt experienced and known, flown, not vanished but migrated, sailed south from Great Lake shores and tributaries. Barn…
Hearts Amok by Kevin Spenst
In language that twists together hobo slang and flights of troubadourish diction, Hearts Amok scrutinizes the history of the love sonnet in Surrey, England and simultaneously celebrates the tickings and…
2020 “The Very Best!” Poetry Winners!
2020 was the first year that The Miramichi Reader started reviewing poetry on a regular basis, therefore this is also the first year that we are giving out “The Very…