Review of Wellwater by Karen Solie

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Wellwater by Karen Solie House of Anansi Press 112 pages $23 Sardonic, perceptive, and unrelenting, the poems in Karen Solie’s Wellwater carry the same attention to the materiality of everyday life that define much of her earlier works. This timely sixth collection examines the intersection of the economic and climate crises, highlighting the harsh reality […]

Review of Blockade by Christine Lowther

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Blockade  by Christine Lowther Caitlin Press 210 pages $26 “The title of the book in your hands is meant as a verb,” declares poet and activist Christine Lowther of her recent memoir, Blockade. In this, her second memoir, Lowther details her experiences with the logging blockades on Vancouver Island in the early 1990s, from her […]

Review of Naomi’s Houses by Rosalie I. Tennison

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Naomi’s Houses by Rosalie I. Tennison Heritage House 288 pages $27 Naomi’s Houses, the first full-length publication by agricultural journalist Rosalie I. Tennison, reads as a clear-eyed love letter to her mother, the eponymous Naomi. The story opens during the narrator’s early childhood on a struggling farm, where she lives with her parents and siblings. […]

Review of Buzzkill Clamshell by Amber Dawn

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Buzzkill Clamshell by Amber Dawn Arsenal Pulp Press 128 pages $20 Amber Dawn’s third poetry collection, Buzzkill Clamshell, is a raw and hypnotic excavation of queer desire, memory, and chronic pain. Lush with bodily imagery and shifting temporalities, the collection moves like a spell—each poem a conjuration, an incantation of survival, longing, and reclamation. Readers […]

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