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Jay Miller

Jay Miller is an editor, book reviewer, poet, translator and technical writer. He lives in Montreal.

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Jerome Ramcharitar, The Riddle of Three Crimson Doors

Jerome Ramcharitar’s first full-length collection touches on a familiar nerve with static electrically charged bliss.

Cover of Jerome Ramchitar's full-length poetry collection The Riddle of Three Crimson Doors (2025) published by Cactus Press.
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Corrections, April 2025

Any mistakes I missed are entirely unintentional, as were the ones I noticed or was apprised of.

Portrait of author of Bibelotages, Jay Miller, in his personal library looking dour with a black coffee pressed to his lips looking out the window wistfully.
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Patrick Grace, a blurred wind swirls back for you

Patrick Grace caresses the line between romance and desire with long, knowing strokes.

Cover of a blurred wind swirls back for you, Patrick Grace (2023). Turret House Press, Montreal.
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Karen Schindler, The Sad Truth

Few poets in Canada glimpse half the eyeful of beauty Schindler evidently beholds.

Cover of Karen Schindler's poetry chapbook The Sad Truth (2023).
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Lance La Rocque, Glitch

Lance La Rocque, I believe, contains such perspicaciousness and self-awareness. I trust his poetry.

Cover of Lance La Rocque's poetry chapbook Glitch (2020)
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Eileen Myles, Teenage Whales

Eileen Myles is not one to pass up a double entendre as a segue.

Cover art for Eileen Myles' Teenage Whales (2025), a poetry chapbook. Art by author.
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Rose Maloukis, Cloud Game with Plums

Rose Maloukis is indecipherable, but has rhythm—her poetry must be crackable.

Cover of Rose Maloukis' Cloud Game with Plums (2020), a poetry chapbook. Cover shows a stick figure adorned with plums as left by a fountain pen smudge, perhaps.
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Vivian Lewin, Colville Suite for Mixed Voices

Lewin is deft in not only her curation of Colville’s artworks, but in responding to them in verse that is as observational and deliberately meek as the paintings themselves.

Cover of Vivian Lewin's poetry chapbook Colville Suite for Mixed Voices (2021)
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Dale Tracy, The Mystery of Ornament

Dale Tracy is a mastermind of storytelling, daring, and it’s honestly just a really fun, brief read.

Cover of The Mystery of Ornament by Dale Tracy (2020), showing a Persian rug motif the main character intends to purloin; black and white printed on yellow paper.
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Eric Nicol & Peter Whalley, Canada Cancelled Because of Lack of Interest

These dudes were born over a century ago and even they know it’s all bull hockey.

A diplomat or unamused citizen walking away from an unclogged bathtub and a red-faced Quebecker on the back side (not pictured).