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Kim Fahner writes about being a writer in the North for The Woodlot!
My latest review over at The Woodlot is Lisa Richter’s new poetry collection Sublunary out with University of Alberta press this Spring!
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“Yes, how strange it is to inhabit a human form….. I think this is one of the central questions of Lisa Richter’s Sublunary.”
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The Wood Lot Canadian Poetry Reviews & Essays
The Wood Lot Canadian Poetry Reviews & Essays
The Wood Lot Canadian Poetry Reviews & Essays
"If Diane Seuss’s sonnet form is a ‘barbed wire dress’, as one critic described it, LoveGrove’s sonnet form is an online dating profile.” Chris Banks on the newly-released collection, The Tinder Sonnets, by @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social for @the-wood-lot.bsky.social. the-wood-lot.ca/2026/04/02/w...
Happy Publication Day to The Tinder Sonnets from acclaimed writer @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social, an electric poetry collection exploring female sexual desire, contemporary dating, misogyny, and middle age that reflects and embodies our social media-saturated times.
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reviewed by dalton derkson In his 1906 novel, The Jungle, Upton Sinclair writes: “All this was bad, and yet it was not the worst.” Is it an odd choice of quotation with which to open a …
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reviewed by Chris Banks In an essay Hope and Nostalgia, the writer Leonora Simonovis has stated, “ exile for me is a lived experience that has influenced my sense of self and my relationships with …
by Chris Banks I’ve been thinking a lot about nostalgia this week maybe because last Saturday night I went to see a cover band play the music of The Smiths, a band I associate with being sixteen ye…
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reviewed by dalton derkson In his 1906 novel, The Jungle, Upton Sinclair writes: “All this was bad, and yet it was not the worst.” Is it an odd choice of quotation with which to open a …
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The Wood Lot Canadian Poetry Reviews & Essays
by Kim Fahner I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be a poet outside of a larger, urban centre—and, even more, what it means to be a poet and writer living and working north of Barrie, O…
reviewed by Chris Banks “The sonnet, like poetry, teaches you what you can do without,” said Diane Seuss who, after publishing her remarkable book of sonnets Frank a few years ago, has ignited a re…
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Reviewed by John Oughton Elana Wolff is not an easy poet to read, but there’s no doubt that she’s a very good and original one. I know nobody else who writes the way she does. As for the worth of h…
reviewed by Chris Banks In the opening poem ”Staying Power” of Lisa Richter’s new poetry collection Sublunary out with University of Alberta press (Spring, 2026), the poet Richter writes, “I stayed…
reviewed by Chris Banks In his introduction to his collection of essays Take This For The Pain: Essays on Writing and Life out now with Palimpsest Press (Spring 2026), Canadian poet and novelist Al…
