Canada
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Sarah Gibbs’ “The Hundred-Year Circus” (Frontenac House, 2024) is a complex poetry book that merges lyricism, allegory, and history, reflecting on Bob Dylan and American culture. It challenges readers with its dense structure and symbolism, moving beyond conventional poetry collections. This work is a thought-provoking exploration, suitable for deeper literary analysis and cultural studies.
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Nicholas Catanoy’s “The Fiddlehead Nation,” a rare Canadian poetry collection published in 1979, explores Atlantic Canada’s landscapes and cultures through vibrant, eco-poetic lens. Catanoy weaves observations of Indigenous peoples alongside natural imagery, presenting nuanced perspectives rarely showcased in Canadian literature. Its avant-garde style offers readers a unique, road-trip experience.
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You Were Here Andre Narbonne 72 pages Flat Singles Press (2017) It is often said that poetry done right is one part memory, one part experience. Narbonne’s debut collection of poetry affords us this type of poetry, straddling the lines of a shared world and the very internal emotional way one experiences that world. This…
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Talk on the sonnet series commissioned for Windsor, Ontario’s Sandwich Neighbourhood.
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So I was reading along in this fine copy I recently picked up of Ralph Gustafson’s Sequences when I came across his poem “At Moriane Lake” and was struck by something that I just haven’t been able to let go. The poem opens with the line “Canada, a country without myths.” Right away, I was…
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