Reviews

“I kneel on the stage. Unbuckle his belt. Tug down his trousers. I lick his underpants like it’s cotton I […]

Winter Tennis is Todd Swift’s fourth collection and is pleasingly hard to pin down. Although there are recurrent themes and […]

If Track Changes were a poetic form, Kate Eichorn would be its master. In her borderline book-art poetic debut (as […]

Jason Camlot pulls no punches with his third collection The Debaucher. His elegiac series to Rob Allen boasts a clear […]

The urban masculine form has long been a rhetorical faded denim and stubble kind of thing: a pose without conscience. […]

A poetry book about the canoe — how Canadian can you get? Guichon then adds a nuclear family into the […]

RM Vaughan’s latest collection of poetry works on the tensions between betrayed and traitor. Telling the story of a therapist […]

At times poet Daphne Gottlieb is operating without a poetry manuscript manual, corrosively entering and occupying the literary spaces of […]

Books based on other books (aka. parallel novels) often use the original story as inspiration, but then create something entirely […]

Ross’s book shows off both his surreal craftsmanship and his emotional dexterity. The middle section about the loss of family […]

Catherine Graham’s third collection has more goose bumps per page than any collection in recent memory. Sticking to the poetic […]

Souvankham Thammavongsa begins her small, blue book of poetry with this: “In 1978, my parents lived in building # 48, […]