Reviews + Essays on Poetry
From time to time I write reviews of new poetry for ARC Poetry Magazine and PRISM Online. I also write essays on poetry now and then.You can find links to my reviews at ARC here.
Reviews + Essays on Poetry
With sophie anne edwards and Renée S’groi. “Confluence: Fieldnotes on Intimacy and Attention.” Dark Matter: Women Witnessing. Issue #18. December 2025.
With sophie anne edwards and Renée S’groi. “Ecopoetry Conversation.” Arc Poetry Magazine, 108. December 2025.
“Drawing Sustenance from Dust and Rain”: A Review of Graphis scripta / writing lichen by Clare Goulet. PRISM Online. October 2024.
“A Different Kind of Time Unfolds in the Forest: A Review of Amanda Lewis’s Tracing Giants. PRISM Online. 10 August 2023.
Lightning from a Clear Blue Sky: A Review of Annharte’s Miskwagoode, Tawahum Bige’s Cut to Fortress, and Jónína Kirton’s Standing in a River of Time. Arc Poetry Magazine 100.
“Drawing Sustenance from Dust and Rain: A Review of Graphis scripta / writing lichen by Clare Goulet. PRISM Online. October 2024.A Review of Renée Sarojini Saklikar’s Bramah and the Beggar Boy. Arc 98.
“Like a Broad and Glittering Sword”: A Review of Lisa Richter’s Nautilus and Bone. PRISM Online. 30 September 2021.
In the Eye of a Whale: Sarah de Leeuw’s Outside, America. Arc. 2 July 2021.
“On Identity: A Review of Francine Cunningham’s on/me.” Prism Online, 4 March 2021.
“The Last Aubade: A Review of Catherine Owen’s Designated Mourner and Riven.” Prism Online, 17 September 2020.
“Poetry & Resilience: Lung, Muscle, Archive, Beautiful Cell.” The Town Crier, for a blog series on ecopoetics, edited by Jesse Holth. 16 April 2020.
“’Like the Codex Seraphinianus’: Brian Henderson’s Unidentified Poetic Object. Arc.
“Poems to Hold Worlds: A Review of annie ross, Pots and Other Living Beings and M. Travis Lane, A Tent, A Lantern, An Empty Bowl.” Prism online. 18 June 2020.
Sonnet Fever: A Review of Sonnet L’Abbé’s Sonnet’s Shakespeare. McLelland and Stewart, 2019. Arc Poetry Magazine 91. + online, 5 June 2020.
One Hundred Trillion Neutrinos Flow Through Your Body Every Second: A Review of Matthew Tierney’s Midday at the Super-Kamiokande.Toronto, Ontario: Coach House Books, 2018. Arc Poetry Magazine online. 22 May 2020.
“Tell How It Really Happened.” A Review of Douglas Walbourne-Gough’s Crow Gulch (icehouse poetry, 2019). Prism Online, 19 December 2019.
An Anthropocene Poetics: A Review of Adam Dickinson’s Anatomic (Coach House Books, 2018). Arc Poetry Magazine 90. October 2019.
Review of Jennifer Zilm, The Missing Field. League of Canadian Poets: Reviewing the Shortlist. 7 May 2019.
“Review of Dean Steadman’s Après Satie—For Two and Four Hands.” Arc Poetry Magazine, Winter 2018.
“Words Lodged in Muscle and Bone: Lee Maracle’s Talking to the Diaspora.” Arc Poetry Magazine, January 2017.
“Poetry in the Courtroom.” Review of Sue Goyette’s The Brief Reincarnation of a Girl. Arc Poetry Magazine 80. 2016.
Review of Jesse Patrick Ferguson’s Mr. Sapiens. Arc Poetry Magazine. Fall 2015.
“How Poems Work: Pat Lowther’s ‘Hotline to the Gulf.’” Arc Poetry Magazine. Issue 77. Summer 2015.
“Kim Trainor presents Pat Lowther.” Part of Brick Books 40 Year Anniversary “Celebration of Canadian Poetry.” 6 April 2015.
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