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Author Archives: Douglas Barbour
Firebreaks: John Kinsella’s eocpoetic homecoming.
John Kinsella. Firebreaks. (Norton 2016). The Australian writer, John Kinsella, has earned an international reputation as a poet both progressive & traditional, exploring innovative or more conventional forms, depending on what each book ends up being, ‘about’. Firebreaks, his latest, … Continue reading
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For Claire Kelly, maunder is an active verb
Claire Kelly. Maunder. (Palimpsest Press 2017). According to The Canadian Oxford Dictionary, ‘maunder’ refers to both speaking & walking, the former ‘in a dreamy or rambling manner,’ the latter ‘listlessly or idly.’ Well, the poems in Maunder, Clair Kelly’s first … Continue reading
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Sandra Ridley does the elegy as dark construction
Sandra Ridley. Silvija. (BookThug 2016). About midway through this volume of shorter serial poems making up a single longer one, we read: ‘Decide what to keep.’ In many ways this is the mandate of the whole book, a book the … Continue reading
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Kate Sutherland draws the reader in to a dark rhinoceros history
Kate Sutherland. How to Draw a Rhinoceros. (BookThug 2016). Kate Sutherland is a scholarly lawyer with a troubling sense of mission, almost obsession, concerning the now nearly extinct rhinoceros, & in How to Draw a Rhinoceros she has constructed a … Continue reading
Anthologizing the energetic Calgary writing scene
derek beaulieu & rob mclennan, eds. The Calgary Renaissance. (Chaudiere Books 2016). In his piece, ‘Dawn (from the Day Book),’ Jordan Scott asks, ‘Who has faith in the arbitrary?’ & one answer, given the alphabetical ordering of writers in The … Continue reading
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Adrienne Gruber’s craftily controlled buoyancy
Adrienne Gruber. Buoyancy Control. (BookThug 2016). That cover illustration, the octopus arms writhing, is more than a little suggestive of the fluid shifting about of concepts, motifs & motives inside this provocative assemblage. The concept of body (leading to mind) … Continue reading
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For the fathers: Erin Moure’s translation of François Turcot’s Mon dinosaure
François Turcot. My Dinosaur (Mon dinosaur). Trans. Erin Moure. (BookThug 2016). Following her postface, the title of which, ‘Si Moure traduit Turcot; A Book of Hours becomes a Book of Ours,’ begins to suggest the complications embedded in both the … Continue reading
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