Angled approaches, revealing inner character one carefully chosen word at a time, are a Reibetanz specialty. In the Porcupine Quill’s wonderful collection "The Essential John... Read More

The pictographs read like nature-administered Rorschach tests, with interpretations revealing themselves after prolonged analysis. Pictographs: The Graphic Art of James Simon... Read More

With her deeply searching observations and trippy, winding way with words, P. K. Page was ahead of her time. Renowned Canadian poet P. K. Page wrote a great quantity of... Read More

"A Serious Call" is a quiet, beautifully rendered story of our relationships to objects, books, and the people around them. Don Coles’s sixteenth book, "A Serious Call", is,... Read More

This thought-provoking “wordless poem” of black-and-white images evokes enlightenment, heightened consciousness balanced by fear. "Never More Together", a visual and... Read More

The tropes that appear in Birney’s poetry are both quietly political and overtly sincere, experimental and traditionally sound. The poems in "The Essential Earle Birney"... Read More

This book reads like memory itself, a mixture of obviously key moments and seemingly innocuous ones that take on meaning later. With Every Minute is a Suicide, Bruce McDougall... Read More

Heer has a knack for making anything interesting, which might be the best praise a writer can garner. Jeet Heer displays the leisurely wit and wisdom of a polymath, writing... Read More

With smartly arranged variety, this is a worthy introduction to Wilkinson’s work. "The Essential Anne Wilkinson" is an elegant volume featuring Ingrid Ruthig’s selections of... Read More

Beautiful engravings capture the long life of a music legend. The Wordless Leonard Cohen Songbook, by Toronto-based artist George A. Walker, delivers exactly what the title... Read More

"Bitter Lake" is an accomplished work on silence: what happens when families ignore a tragic moment. A melancholic debut by Marika Deliyannides, "Bitter Lake" explores one... Read More

The raw honesty and power of sixteenth century poet shines through in Zwicky’s translations. Jan Zwicky presents her translations of ten sonnets from Vittoria Colonna’s Rime... Read More