by LaurenEBC | Mar 9, 2021
Sonnet’s Shakespeare Sonnet L’AbbéPublisher: McClelland and Stewart Book Description How can poetry grapple with how some cultures assume the place of others? How can English-speaking writers use the English language to challenge the legacy of colonial literary...
by LaurenEBC | Mar 9, 2021
SH:LAM (The Doctor) Joseph A DandurandPublisher: Mawenzi House Publishers Book Description In this volume of poetry, Joseph A Dandurand lives the experiences of an Aboriginal people brought to the edge of extinction. “The poems in this collection tell the truth of...
by LaurenEBC | Mar 9, 2021
Dunk Tank Kayla CzagaPublisher: House of Anansi Book Description In the title poem of Kayla Czaga’s sophomore collection, a teenage speaker is suspended between knowledge and experience, confidently hovering there before the world plunges her into adult life. Dunk...
by LaurenEBC | Mar 9, 2021
Hymnswitch Ali BlythePublisher: Goose Lane Book Description Four years ago, Ali Blythe arrived with Twoism, a remarkable debut collection, every line shimmering with life and shivering with erotically charged glimpses of completeness. Now in Hymnswitch, Blythe takes...
by LaurenEBC | Mar 9, 2021
How She Read Chantal GibsonPublisher: Caitlin Press Book Description HOW SHE READ is a collection of genre-blurring poems about the representation of Black women, their hearts, minds and bodies, across the Canadian cultural imagination. Drawing from grade-school...