Intertidal: The Collected Earlier Poems, 1968–2008, Daphne Marlatt. Talon Books (2017). We went to see Daphne Marlatt read as part of Writers Read before we got our hands on her…
Category: Poetry & Poetics
The Babysitter at Rest, Jen George. Dorothy Project (2016). IT’S A DELICATE MATTER TO BE A DIFFICULT WOMAN Clarice Lispector never understood why readers found her work opaque. The fact…
Feel Free, Zadie Smith. Hamish Hamilton (2018). It seemed to me, as I read Feel Free, Zadie Smith’s new collection of nonfiction, that every essay in the world concerns the…
LAO TZU APPLIES FOR A UNIVERSITY TEACHING POSITION To whom it may concern, and it is my hope that no one is concerned, The class I do not propose to…
Here are three short takes from our editorial collective. ML on Karen Solie: The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out The Road In Is Not the Same Road…
Margaret the First, Danielle Dutton. Catapult (2016). If atoms are so small, why not worlds inside our own? A world inside a peach pit? Inside a ball of snow? And…
Planetary Noise, Erín Moure. Wesleyan University Press (2017). THE PROXIMITY EFFECT OF ERÍN MOURE Proximity effect is what happens when a microphone is held too close to a sound…
The Purpose Pitch, Kathryn Mockler. Mansfield Press (2015). Kathryn Mockler’s chaotic third collection of poetry, The Purpose Pitch, irradiates the deep strangeness of our modern world. The collection embraces various…
As if dreams were a language that includes the social surface / of the body, ‘signal fire’ in the desert as the song says, the / body’s lamp glowing, armpits…
TO THE EXTENT A TRADITION CAN BE SAID TO BE DEVELOPED; IT IS MORE ACCURATE TO SAY IT CAN BE CLOTHED IN DIFFERENT FORMS As three persons in one, I…
and now famine, friend I of course, no living is continuous, we take what grows within we cast them out as though to bloodlet the life of its lesser sorrows;…
Six poems from Kathryn Mockler. Please enjoy a review of The Purpose Pitch also featured in this issue. An interview with the poet coming shortly. from The Purpose Pitch SEALED CONTAINERS —So how are we going…