Histories is an eclectic and unusual poetry debut from the author of the creative non-fiction work Wardlife: The Apprenticeship of a Young Writer as a Hospital Clerk published to acclaim in 1999. From the medical history to family history, Histories reveals a poet of multiple personas and postures. Continue reading
Bliss Pig and Other Poems represents the formidable writing talents of two members of the popular trio of poets known as Uncritical Mass. Toronto’s Linda Stitt has published five volumes of poetry. Charlene Jones, a professor of English, has been published in several Canadian and American journals. Together they read to enthusiastic audiences across Canada. Continue reading
In this new collection, George Ellenbogen presents a canvas that includes a variety of inhabitants–the restless wife of an East African planter, a Yugoslav victim of brutality, a Holocaust survivor, a Lebanese immigrant, and an aging hockey goaltender–all of whom come to realize that in exploring the trauma of places they considered their own, they are formulating their own exile. Continue reading
These poems give a heightened sense of the everyday. By focusing on the reality of familiar things, they reveal how we are constantly being reborn in different ways. Morency’s subtlety of language gives us a heightened sense of the everyday that tells us something about our humanity. By focussing on the reality of familiar things, he reveals how we are constantly being reborn in different ways. In every word and every phrase nature is present in Words that Walk in the Night – even in the city. But Morency’s poetry is never a restricted view of “city” or “nature.” He shows us that just as we can inhabit a landscape, we can also inhabit poetry. Continue reading
For Tregebov, writing is mapping — tracing the outlines of what is there with humour, wonder, bemusement, and great clarity. Continue reading
Challenging modern America’s perspective on love history, and race relations, these poems deviate from such techniques as free verse and abstraction to concentrate on structured forms such as odes and Italian sonnets. The unifying idea of the book also comes from the classics: the poet views black artists as Prometheus figures, giving fire and inspiration to American culture even when they are barely acknowledged. The poetry’s message, however, is gritty and emotional — and sometimes deliberately sentimental — as it pits the joys of love, romance, and racial pride against the sorrows of slavery and segregation. Continue reading
Ricardo Sternberg’s writing is controlled and superb. Fairy tale-like pieces rest happily next to probing looks at the urban psyche; whimsical pieces about childhood mesh with harsh, adult realities. Sternberg’s poetry has appeared in the best of this continent’s literary journals–Poetry [Chicago], The Paris Review, The Nation, American Poetry Review, Canadian Literature, Ploughshares, The Virginia Quarterly, among others. Continue reading
David Manicom’s eloquent debut collection. Stories of loss and yearning and multi-generational family ties which reflect the author’s deep roots in rural Ontario, and the title story, “Ice in Dark Water”—the startling tale of the last surviving nun in a Montreal convent. Continue reading
The Island in Winter is Terence Young’s fresh and broad take on the universe. With a wry sense of humour he chronicles his childhood, family, marriage and dreams. He explores the natural and symbolic landscape with a depth of vision that is surprising in a first book. Continue reading
Selected Poems & Prose Poems Author: Kirby Congdon | ISBN: 097725240X : 9780977252404 | Format: Paperback | Size: 140x215mm | Pages: 83 | Weight: .1 Kg. | Published: Presa Press … Continue reading