Hook & Ladder

This is a journal that does what it does well, however limited its agenda. It promises poetry and book reviews, and it delivers simple but effective poems, and more elaborate reviews that run the gamut from boring and uncritical to incisive and uncritical. Anyway, if you are looking for a place to read some decent new poets and appreciate a conservative outlook that, nonetheless, takes the occasional thematic and stylistic risk, then this is for you. Highlights include the always powerful David Groulx and the deadpan Lorette Thiesssen. (HN)

lit journal, vol. 2, # 4, 40 pages / main creator: Victoria Martin (editor) / $3.50 / P.O. Box 78, Station B, Ottawa, ON, K1P 6C3