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Tag Archives: Canadian poetry
PQ Weekly Roundup: 25 Aug 2023
Every Friday, the PQ Weekly Roundup collects the most shared links in our social media network—bookish articles, reviews, quizzes, recommendations and more—in convenient digest form. “When you give a book away, you have given it the opportunity to befriend a … Continue reading
PQ Weekly Roundup: 03 March 2023
Every Friday, the PQ Weekly Roundup collects the most shared links in our social media network—bookish articles, reviews, quizzes, recommendations and more—in convenient digest form. Continue reading
Pulled from the Pages: Granted by Jeffery Donaldson
The impending Lunar New Year this Sunday has many of us thinking about the moon, but my moon-ish preoccupation stems from a difference source: the hot-off-the-press copies of Jeffery Donaldson’s Granted! Continue reading
Poetry Month Profile: Jeffery Donaldson
We’re rounding out this last week of National Poetry Month by shining the spotlight on Jeffery Donaldson, a journeyman poet whose intelligent verses explore the ‘big questions’ surrounding language, religion, science and even death. Continue reading
GUEST POST: James Bader Explores Cohesive Narrative in a Fractured Manner in Leon Rooke’s Rank Songbirds
Rank Songbirds is the latest work by Canadian author Leon Rooke, and its structure is unlike any I have encountered before. The work is comprised of a series of poems of varying lengths, and it ends with a sonatina, which … Continue reading
GUEST POST: James Bader on Innovating a Classical Trope in The Essential John Glassco
There is only one poet I know who shares Glassco’s brilliance at transforming dark subject matter: Ovid. Continue reading
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