Spring Cleaning: Mini-Reviews for May 2020

Gord Hunter’s memoirs of his life in the Canadian Navy during the Cold War years makes for some good reading, particularly if you are interested in ships, or are an old Navy salt yourself. Mr. Hunter served on both surface ships and submarines and he has lots of stories from both arms of the service. …

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We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite by Conyer Clayton

[dropcap]The[/dropcap] first line from the poem “Seeds” in Conyer Clayton’s debut collection We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite out with Guernica Editions is “I pray to catch on fire” which puts me in mind of Gwendolyn MacEwen’s lines, “who made me as the world’s / first person, breathing / Fire and poetry.” Perhaps it is …

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