The Toronto Review of Books

Tag: Canadian Poetry

  • The Geography of Desire – A review of Siren by Kateri Lanthier

    The Geography of Desire – A review of Siren by Kateri Lanthier

    If you wanted to find a daughter abducted by a powerful man, you might need to cover a lot of territory. The earth mother Demeter gave wings to young women singers willing to search, but when they failed to find the man, she left them stuck on the rocks, singing to men who would be…

  • A Review: Giles Benaway’s Ceremonies For The Dead

    A Review: Giles Benaway’s Ceremonies For The Dead

    Reviewed in this essay: Ceremonies for the Dead by Giles Benaway. Published by Kegedonce Press. Poetry never ceases to amaze me. I began my writing career with pieces of poetry published here and there, but then with time, I discovered short stories and turned my attention to them. I don’t know if I will ever go back to…

  • Violence in our bedrooms and kitchens: A review of Julie Bruck’s Monkey Ranch

    Violence in our bedrooms and kitchens: A review of Julie Bruck’s Monkey Ranch

    Reviewed in this essay: Monkey Ranch  by Julie Bruck, Brick Books, 2012 Julie Bruck’s poems have the transparency of fingerprints on glass. The achievement of Monkey Ranch, her Governor General Award-winning collection, is not obvious. Her third book, it contains poems about rituals and family life–a son at a window, a lover sleeping through the noise of…