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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.
Karen Schindler, The Sad Truth
Few poets in Canada glimpse half the eyeful of beauty Schindler evidently beholds.
Lance La Rocque, Glitch
Lance La Rocque, I believe, contains such perspicaciousness and self-awareness. I trust his poetry.
Eileen Myles, Teenage Whales
Eileen Myles is not one to pass up a double entendre as a segue.
Rose Maloukis, Cloud Game with Plums
Rose Maloukis is indecipherable, but has rhythm—her poetry must be crackable.
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.
Dale Tracy, The Mystery of Ornament
Dale Tracy is a mastermind of storytelling, daring, and it’s honestly just a really fun, brief read.
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.
Stephanie Bolster, Ghosts
Bolster very much shows her prowess in long stretches of stories in verse.
Cary Fagan, then / here / now / there
He makes it look effortless, but these poems are elastic balls of references, stories and allusions begging to be unraveled.
