Sounds, imagery, a beautiful idea. That is not to say I don’t appreciate ugliness in poetry, or the unbeautiful, especially as a startling contrast to what is beautiful.
Annick MacAskill
Entering Sappho
There’s a meditative quality to Entering Sappho, a centrifugal movement that emerges as Dowling reinterprets and remixes her understanding of both the geographical and the literary Sappho. So proceeds “Soft Memory,” my favourite poem in the book, a sequence quickly identifiable as a rewriting of Sappho 31 (her “Ode on the Beloved”).
An Interview with stephanie roberts
Panama born, prize-winning, Quebec-based author stephanie roberts grew up in Brooklyn, NY. She has lived in and around Montreal before settling in Beauharnois. Widely published in literary journals and magazines across the country and abroad, including Poetry, Event...
Painter, Poet, Mountain: After Cézanne
Part art criticism, part biography, part lyric journey, Painter, Poet, Mountain studies the intersection of inspiration, experience, and creation that is inherent to various forms of artistic expression. Ut pictura poesis (“Just as painting, so, too, poetry”), perhaps...
Metamorphosis 6: 401-674: A Paraphrase in Still Pictures
The tongue is lost—now blood pools in her mouth. Her maid stops the wound with a tampon, split down the middle like some carpenter’s unlucky thumb. Philomela The tongue is lost—now blood pools in her mouth. Her maid stops the wound with a tampon, split down the...
For Your Own Good
Leah Horlick’s second collection of poetry is a fictionalized autobiography that focuses on a violent lesbian relationship. Leah Horlick’s second collection of poetry, For Your Own Good, is a fictionalized autobiography that focuses on a violent lesbian relationship....