Reviews and Praise


The following are published reviews of D.A. Lockhart’s work. The works include full collections and individual pieces. None of the reviews were solicited by the author.

Owen, Catherine. “Frontenac House Poetry Quintet 2025 Investigations into being truly human in the world” Alberta Views, March 2026. click here

Banks, Chris. “Stillness & Restlessness: A Review of D.A. Lockhart’s Commonwealth.” The Woodlot, April 2025. click here

Robinson, Bryn. “North of Middle Island By D.A. Lockhart” Seaboard Review, February 2025. click here

15 Books for National Indigenous Peoples Day 2024, All Lit Up, Spring 2024. click here

Bird, Johannah. “Poems for Waawiiyaatanong: Reading Place in D.A. Lockhart’s Go Down Odawa Way” Hamilton Arts & Letters, 16.1 (Summer 2023): click here

15 Reads for National Indigenous Peoples Day 2023, All Lit Up, Spring 2023. click here

Schneider, Aaron. “Review of Go Down Odawa WayTEMZ Review, Summer 2022. click here

Gervais, Marty. “Review of Go Down Odawa WayFreefall Magazine, Summer 2022. click here

Review of Breaking Right (Porcupine’s Quill, 2021) from Miramachi Reader: click here

60 Works of Canadian Fiction Coming Out Fall 2020 at CBC Books: click Here

Review of Tukhone (Black Moss Press, 2020) from Miramachi Reader: click here

Leuch, Angela. “Tukhone: Where the River Narrows and Shores Bend” Haiku Canada Review, Vol. 15.  No. 2. click here

Review of Tukhone (Black Moss Press, 2020) from Rob Mclennan’s Blog, click here

Reads for Truth and Reconciliation, All Lit Up, Fall 2019. click here.

10 Canadian Books Coming Out in November We Can’t Wait to Read at CBC Books: click here

Owen, Catherine. “Addressing Endurance: Midgely, Bowling, Lockhart” Canadian Literature: click here

Goluboff, Benjamin. “D.A. Lockhart and the Poetry of the Canadian Indigenous,” South Dakota Review, 54.3&4, 2019

Review of Devil in the Woods (Brick Books 2019) from Temz Review, Issue 12: click here

Review of Devil in the Woods (Brick Books 2019) from the Miramachi Reader: click here

23 Collections of Canadian Poetry to Watch For this Fall (August 2019) at CBC Books: click here

Review of the poem “Divining Manëtuwàk at the Banks of the Wabash” from Augur Issue 3.1 at Quick Sips: click here

Seguin, Michael. “Black Moss Press’ New Book Explores Windsor’s Forgotten History” Windsor Life, December 2019: click here

Fahner, Kim. “Review of Big Medicine Comes to Erie” League of Canadian Poets Blog: click here