The Unsettled, from Kalamalka Press in Vernon, is Mona Fertig’s first full-length book of new poetry in 12 years, and was on the long list for the Relit Award. The Unsettled is No.7 in the Mackie Lecture and Reading Series published by writers-in-residence at the Mackie Lake House every fall in Vernon. Mona, a poet and publisher, [...]
Buy at Amazon.ca Introduction by Aislinn Hunter “There is a sweet music and the sensuality of careful attention in Daniela Elza’s work, the sort of things by which the world recovers its proper gravity.” –Tim Lilburn “These poems are like the sculpted mindscapes of the Zen garden: evocative, resonant, and serene. They are also delightfully complex, [...]
Things that Matter Now, Bob Stallworthy, Frontenac House, 2009 “I thought of the poem about after your father died, the silence in the house”, an acquaintance tells Bob after her mother, whom she was living with, suddenly died. Another acquaintance who has returned to school after a long time away sent an e-mail saying that [...]
This is the Moon’s Work: New and Selected Poetry by Diana Hayes Mother Tongue Publishing, 2011 Intro by George McWhirter “Not only does Diana Hayes take her siren’s place beside West Coast and Island writers such as Susan Musgrave, but her poetry rightfully owns these northern islands and ocean with their passages and perplexities as much [...]
Bruce Hunter is a poet of people, places and histories. His poems cover locations from the West Coast, to the mountains of Alberta, towns and cities across Canada, and to the Northeast coast of Scotland. A storyteller and a lyricist, Hunter’s depictions of characters and locales demonstrate a commitment to and compassion for his people [...]
In her third collection of poems, Untitled Child, Nancy Jo Cullen once again turns her questing and multidimensional mind to the nature of madness, addiction, impermanence and loss. This confessional collection takes an unflinching look at the path of a life’s destruction to create a harrowing chronicle of bereavement. In 2006 Nancy Jo Cullen’s life [...]
Shirley Graham’s poetry is haunting and intense, not easily forgotten. Her descriptions are always apt–the ‘club footed pigeon” with a “maimed claw,” or a tongue that “fumbles for a rhythm.” Using a diversity of styles that range from spare, unadorned poetry to prose that calls to mind the quirky energy of Swiss writer Robert Walser, [...]
Peter Levitt was born in New York City in 1946. He is a poet, translator, Zen teacher, and popular writing workshop leader. He has taught poetry and creativity workshops internationally, including at the C. G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, Naropa Institute Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and as a faculty member in poetry and [...]
Wore Down Trust: A Blues in Three Lives By Michael Blouin Pedlar Press, 2011 Wore Down Trust is a blues medley of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and biography, a collection of poetic pieces written about and in the voices of two men, Johnny Cash and Alden Nowlan, narrated by a third who may or may [...]
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