Gudgeon’s first poetry collection is a quirky valentine to irreverent readers, full of stark and pretty imagery, wry quips, and glorious bursts of vulgarity. Its foci include human foibles, Canadian eccentricities, and, always,... Read More

This lovely, softer revival of beat poetry looks back on the hedonism of summers in the Hamptons. With vivid settings and an audacious voice, Theodore M. Wandzilak’s collection "The East Deck Motel and Selected Poetry" offers a... Read More

These poems are haunting, with a blend of ferocity and obscurity. In his collection "Another Side of Thoughts", Anders Wennerstrom explores themes related to time and gender. This slim volume of poems occupies space somewhere between the... Read More

There is a joyfulness in these poems, a positive outlook that verges on the mystical. In Henry Cunningham’s poetry collection "The Geometry of Freedom", free verse becomes the vehicle for addressing issues of the self, like fulfilling... Read More

A sustained voice of unapologetic intellect holds this book of poetry together. "The Essential Travis Lane" features selections from the work of an American-born Canadian poet whose talent has remained—according to fellow poet and... Read More

This collection of poetry soars above, like the trees in the forest that inspired it. For anyone who’s ever pondered the secret life of a forest or aspired to be an unseen observer among the trees, Joe Rosenblatt’s poetry collection... Read More

Cohen is writing in the grand tradition of the ubi sunt elegy, plaintively inquiring where the values of a previous age have gone. Irvin F. Cohen styles himself as a “lifelong conservative voice crying out in the wilderness” of... Read More

The fix is in: we are hopeless Jim Harrison fans, and his recent death moved our reverence beyond reason—he alone spoke our Mother Tongue. In a forty-plus year career, Harrison authored thirty-six books, most of them collections of... Read More