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Between Lives - Nilofar Shidmehr (Oolichan Books)
Today's book of poetry:Between Lives. Nilofar Shidmehr. Oolichan Books. Fernie, British Columbia. 2014.Women are marching all over the world today and Today's book of poetry salutes each and every...
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Conditionals - Peter Gibbon (bird,buried | press)
Today's book of poetry:Conditionals. Pete Gibbon. bird, buried | press. Peterborough, Ontario. 2016.Conditionals really only suffers from one minor flaw - it is not long enough. Today's book of...
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Immortality - Alan Feldman (University of Wisconsin Press)
Today's book of poetry:Immortality. Alan Feldman. University of Wisconsin Press. Madison, Wisconsin. 2015.Winner of the Four Lakes Prize in PoetryAlan Feldman reads like the gentlest of men but...
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Resisting Arrest, poems to stretch the sky - Edited by Tony Medina (Jacar Press)
Today's book of poetry:Resisting Arrest, poems to stretch the sky. Edited by Tony Medina. Jacar Press. Durham, North Carolina. 2016.The anthology Resisting Arrest, poems to stretch the sky is not...
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Passport - Angela Hibbs (DC Books)
Today's book of poetry:Passport. Angela Hibbs. DC Books. New Writer's Series. Montreal, Quebec. 2006.Today's book of poetry has been out of the office for the last few days attending to family...
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The last white house at the end of the row of white houses - Michael E....
Today's book of poetry:The last white house at the end of the row of white houses. Michael E. Casteels. Invisible Publishing. Halifax & Picton, Nova Scotia. 2016.Today's book of poetry went...
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Lady Crawford - Julie Cameron Gray (Palimpsest Press)
Today's book of poetry:Lady Crawford. Julie Cameron Gray. Palimpsest Press. Windsor, Ontario. 2016.Julie Cameron Gray can burn with the best of them. These wicked smart poems get to the edge of...
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On Not Losing My Father's Ashes in the Flood - Richard Harrison (Buckrider...
Today's book of poetry:On Not Losing My Father's Ashes in the Flood. Richard Harrison. Buckrider Books. Wolsak & Wynn. Hamilton, Ontario. 2016.Micheline Maylor recently referred to Richard...
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Love is a very long word - Majlinda Bashllari (Guernica Editions)
Today's book of poetry:Love is a very long word. Majlinda Bashllari. Guernica Editions. Essential Poets 233. Toronto - Buffalo - Lancaster (U.K.). 2016.What joy. Majlinda Bashllari's Love is a...
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Blue Hallelujahs - Cynthia Manick (Black Lawrence Press)
Today's book of poetry:Blue Hallelujahs. Cynthia Manick. Black Lawrence Press, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 2016."we don't choose what haunts us"...
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Acquired Community - Jane Byers (Caitlin Press)
Today's book of poetry:Acquired Community. Jane Byers. Caitlin Press. Halfmoon Bay, British Columbia. 2016.When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then itbecome...
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Life as IT - Daneen Wardrop (The Ashland Poetry Press)
Today's book of poetry:Life as IT. Daneen Wardrop. The Ashland Poetry Press. Ashland University. Ashland, Ohio. 2016.Winner of the Richard Snyder Publication PrizeBuddhas and Beethovens populate...
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Selah - Nora Gould (Brick Books)
Today's book of poetry:Selah. Nora Gould. Brick Books. London, Ontario. 2016.There is much debate as to the actual meaning of the word Selah. Some Biblical scholars insist it is a musical notation...
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I Mean - Kate Colby (Ugly Duckling Presse)
Today's book of poetry:I Mean. Kate Colby. Ugly Duckling Presse. Brooklyn, New York. 2015.The title poem in Kate Colby's effervescent I Mean is a stunning long list poem. My favourite in quite a...
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Still the Animals Enter - Jane Hilberry (Red Hen Press)
Today's book of poetry:Still the Animals Enter. Jane Hilberry. Red Hen Press. Pasadena, California. 2016.Today's book of poetry thinks that Jane Hilberry is a...
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Fredericton - The City Series: Number Two (Frog Hollow Press)
Today's book of poetry:Fredericton - The City Series: Number Two.Rebecca Salazar, Editor. Shane Neilson, Series Editor. Frog Hollow Press. Victoria, British Columbia. 2015.Fredericton is from Frog...
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The Red Files - Lisa Bird-Wilson (Nightwood Editions)
Today's book of poetry:The Red Files. Lisa Bird-Wilson. Nightwood Editions. Gibsons, British Columbia. 2016.The Red Files takes its title from the federal government files on residential schools....
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Where the Terror Lies - Chantel Lavoie (Quattro Poetry/Quattro Books)
Today's book of poetry:Where the Terror Lies. Chantel Lavoie. Quattro Poetry. Quattro Books. Toronto, Ontario. 2012.Chantel Lavoie must have some dark sources if her treatise on cannibalism,...
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Hard Work Cheering Up Sad Machines - Jason Heroux (A Stuart Ross...
Today's book of poetry:Hard Work Cheering Up Sad Machines. Jason Heroux. A Stuart Ross Book. Mansfield Press. Toronto, Ontario. 2016.Today's book of poetry might just as well say it and get it out...
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How to Draw a Rhinoceros - Kate Sutherland (Book Thug)
Today's book of poetry:How to Draw a Rhinoceros. Kate Sutherland. Book Thug. Toronto, Ontario. 2016.Kate Sutherland has created a rather robust bestiary but it only contains one principal animal....
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