Suzanne Hancock ISBN 1-894469-22-4 $16.95 CDN $12.95 US 72 pp Suzanne Hancock’s debut collection of poems seeks to explore seemingly disparate things: family bonds, self deceit, lost desire, and the final days of Descartes’ life. With precision and urgent honesty these poems take us from an apple orchard in summer, to a Dutch slaughterhouse, to […]
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Aesthetics Lesson
Christopher Doda ISBN 13: 978-1-894469-35-7 $16.95 CDN $12.95 US 68 pp Ranging in form from elegy to satire to metaphysics to blues, Christopher Doda’s latest book, Aesthetics Lesson, is an exciting meditation on art and power. His poems investigate the ‘unnamed cities of light’ created by the artist, reflecting and dissecting how the creative impulse […]
At the Gates of the Theme Park
Peter Norman ISBN 978-1-894469-46-3 $16.95 CDN / US 70 pp In Peter Norman’s exciting debut collection, the poet stands, awed and perhaps a tad scared, at the brink of a loud, swirling, thrilling world. Its mysteries and its upheavals spark amusement, sadness and occasionally anger. Whether navigating love and loss, facing the trauma of modern […]
Among Ruins
Christopher Doda ISBN 1-894469-04-6 $14.95 CDN 72 pp “Among Ruins is an intriguing mixture of the fantastic and the frighteningly real. These poems, tinged with the irony of life and politics, convey a dark and powerful mythic undertone that speaks not only to the reader but to the reader’s soul. This is a haunting and […]
A Love Supreme
Kent Nussey ISBN 1-894469-11-9 Omar Snow is a struggling musicologist trying to finish a book of jazz biographies about Thelonius Monk, Charles Mingus and John Coltrane. When he reaches the Coltrane section strange things start happening around him and to him. Coltrane’s music, or some other new urgency in Omar’s life, triggers a series of […]
A Beggar’s Loom
Matt Santataresa ISBN 1-894469-07-0 $14.95 CDN 56 pp In the poems of A Beggar’s Loom, Matt Santateresa reaches deeply into place and time to bring us stories from the past: General Wolfe scaling the ramparts of Quebec City gives way to Baudelaire writing to his mulatto lover, Jeanne Duvall. One hundred years later, Shoemaker and […]
Mammoth
Reviewed by Spencer Gordon Mammoth Larissa Andrusyshyn DC Books, 2010 88 pages, $16.95 It’s not difficult to explain the enduring fascination of Gunther von Hagen’s Body Worlds exhibits. Using a technique called Plastination—a strange, exciting innovation in the field of anatomical preservation—the good scientist has erected a gallery of authentic human specimens arranged in lifelike […]
A History of my Body
by Michael Dennis Old wives would have you believe that your hair comes from your mother’s side of the family. Most of the men on my mother’s side of the family are bald. I’m fifty-two years old and still have a mostly full head of hair. It’s grey, almost white, with a few traces of […]
My Team Canada Jersey
by Priscila Uppal A couple of weeks before boarding the Vancouver-bound plane for my gig as Canadian Athletes Now’s poet-in-residence during the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic games, I had the idea to head over to the Hockey Hall of Fame and buy myself a Team Canada jersey. At first I thought of the jersey as […]
