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Reviewed by Rion Levy Casa de mi Corazón: A Travel Journal of Poetry and Memoir by Lindsay Soberano-Wilson In her small but packed Casa de mi Corazón, we watch Lindsay Soberano-Wilson grow up and into herself. She mainly concerns herself with the question of identity and how it shapes belonging. The first half of the collection, composed of ten poems and a short passage of prose, “devoured in timelessness” (“The Western Wall,” line 10), explores her reckoning with identity and her learning of otherness. She opens her poem “Human Kind” with, I am a Jewish woman Jew-ish a type of ish like reli ..read more

Reviewed by Stephen Morrissey ineffable, The Mystical Poems by Edwin Varney (The Poem Factory, Courtenay, BC, 2022). 14 pages. ISBN: 978-1-895593-57-0 Back in 1977, I reviewed Edwin Varney’s Human Nature (1974), published in CV II (Vol. 3, no. 2); it was my first published book review.  And here I am, so many years later, reviewing Edwin Varney’s new chapbook, ineffable, The Mystical Poems (2022). Edwin has published over twenty books and chapbooks of poetry, and he is well known for his activity in the arts community, in Canada and internationally, as a poet ..read more

This April 2023, we celebrate National Poetry Month: JOY! LCP has partnered with designer Megan Fildes for our poster, bookmark and Poem In Your Pocket Postcards this National Poetry Month 2023. How will you celebrate poetry and JOY? If you are celebrating NPM in person or online, LCP has prepared the following graphics for your promotion and celebratory needs. Whether used for online events, in person gatherings, your office, classroom or fridge, April is the perfect month to add a little JOY and poetry into every day. Please note that these graphics are grouped by best size per platform. No ..read more

Reviewed by Louise Carson Timed Radiance, by Donna Langevin (Aeolus House, 2022). There are many examples of fine language in this collection of poems that have (mostly) been written as a summation of one poet’s long life. So, I’ll be presenting a lot of quotes. The first one comes from the first poem ‘Even with the Help of My Hearing Aids’. …today when I hear the silent nickering of four foals in the farmer’s field that kick up their heels and nip and nibble spring, instead of tears for my deafness I once licked from my lips, I find to my surprise I’ve learned to listen with my eyes.   ..read more

Reviewed by Louise Carson somewhere still in wind the tree is bending by Bob MacKenzie (Silver Bow Publishing, New Westminster, 2018). The tree is on the front cover, a weathered and twisted bonsai-shaped thing, growing out of rock. The title slows me right down; is why I chose to review the book. And you know, at this time of year, I really need to slow down, as temperatures veer from cold, near-frost nights to heat-wave days. Makes sowing and planting a bit of a guessing game. Trying to be the tree, somewhere still.      MacKenzie opens the book with that quote from Omar ..read more

Reviewed by Louise Carson Hell-Box by Peter Taylor (Frog Hollow Press, 2020). As the first note at the end of this chapbook explains, “A hell-box is a receptacle for damaged or discarded type.” As a title for anything, Hell-Box rocks. And it hints that the contents will be wildly assorted. They are. But the voice of Peter Taylor, a poet I know nothing about, is consistently steady, measured and grim. Except when it’s beautiful.      In the first poem ‘Hell-Box’ the hell-box speaks. Line one: ‘I am the beginning of language.” Its goal is to make idea and thought supreme. Th ..read more

Reviewed by Louise Carson The Negation of Chronology: Imagining Geraldine Moodie, Rebecca Luce-Kapler (Inanna, 2020). Rebecca Luce-Kapler, The Negation of Chronology     I knew after I’d read the forward, that I’d be interested in the material covered by Rebecca Luce-Kapler in The Negation of Chronology. I’d just finished reading Molly Peacock’s Flower Diary, a biography of American/Canadian painter Mary Hiester Reid (1854-1921), who was of the same generation as Geraldine Moodie (1854-1945). Now for a treatment of a female photographer through the medium of poetry.    ..read more

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