Poetry
Metropantheon attributes a supernatural design and grand meaning to urban spaces, and invites readers to encounter cities with the same sense of wonder and imaginative renewal. >>
A work of serious play, which springs from enjoyment found on the porous boundaries of sense and non-sense. >>
Poems in this collection range from a tribute to the paintings of the late Alex Coville to found poems gleaned from how-to-books and anthologies and culminate in a moving eulogy for an upstairs neighbour. >>
With surprising, impressive, yet subtle skill, Terence Young guides us between the dreamy spirit of memory and the quirky arena of home repairs, child-rearing, and marriage. In Moving Day, the world can be both a dear and deceptive place. >>
In Once Houses Could Fly, ten kayakers snail along the rugged fjords of Ellesmere Island in the High Arctic. These poems speak of the bite and beauty of weather and the limits it sets on us. Beginner’s prowess ends in taking inventory of thumbs and “aging’s howl,” yet the light’s redemptive peace settles all distress, and what lasts is the quiet gratitude that overtakes the narrator, as the journey sets the pace for the soul to catch up with the body.
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Our Extraordinary Monsters is Vanessa Moeller's debut poetry collection which uses language(s) to build a written architecture where meaning(s) reside(s). >>
Painting Over Sketches of Anatolia
Like a painter faced with the incongruities of the familiar and unfamiliar and a sketchbook almost full, Leonard Neufeldt explores the question of finding rootedness in an ethos quite unlike one’s own. The realities of discovering and settling in Turkey are uppermost in this collection, but a similar rootedness is evident in the lyrical invocations of western British Columbia, where the author was born and raised. >>
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