A Recipe for Contemporary Canadian Poetry: Reviews of Nine Recent Books of Poetry (original) (raw)

Ygdrasil -May 2008 - Selected Poems by Susan McMaster

Ygdrail, A Journal of the Poetic Arts, 2008

Susan McMaster Here are some poems I still like from what is, I am surprised to discover, almost three decades of publishing. My early pieces appeared in student newspapers and workshop anthologies in the seventies, but my first “real” publication was “Keillor’s Marmalade”, an ode to my Scottish-born husband, in Writers’ Lifeline in 1981. I still remember the thrill – matched only (in my literary experiences) by having my first book of wordmusic, Pass this way again, accepted by bpNichol for Underwhich Editions in 1983, or my first poetry collection, Dark Galaxies, published by Ouroboros here in Ottawa in 1986. Some twenty poetry publications, wordmusic collections, recordings, anthologies, and literary editing projects followed. The most recent, The Gargoyle’s Left Ear: Writing in Ottawa, is less a formal memoir than a collection of anecdotes about growing up as a poet in this town. The timing of this issue of Ygdrasil is a good fit as it tells the other side of this story through the poems themselves.

✒︎ Bareknuckle Poet Anthology Vol.1: 2015 ISSN 2205–7218

Bareknuckle Books: Frazer, B. (Ed.)., 2016, 2015

BAREKNUCKLE POET ANNUAL VOL.1 2015 2nd Edition 2016 Edited by Brentley Frazer & A. G. Pettet. Publisher: BAREKNUCKLE BOOKS. IMPRINT: Bareknuckle Poets. ISSN: 2205 – 7218. STATUS: Published: 01/11/2016. Copyright: Bareknuckle Books & Contributors. Language: English. Extent: 348 pages. Binding: Perfect-bound Paperback. Interior Ink: Black & white. Dimensions: (inches) 6x 9 CONTRIBUTORS: L. Ward Abel, Robert Adamson, Venero Armanno, Melissa Ashley, Lisa Marie Basile, Mandy Beaumont, Sally Breen, MTC Cronin, B. R. Dionysius, Maria C. Dominguez, Martin Edmond, Michael Farrell, Toby Fitch, Brentley Frazer, Claire Gaskin, Allen Ginsberg, Matt Hetherington, Eleanor Jackson, Anthony Lawrence, Alexandra McCallum, Tim McGabhann, Laura Jean Mckay, Corey Mesler, Reg Mombassa, A. G. Pettet, Mark Pirie, Rufo Quintavalle, Kris Saknussemm, Gary Snyder, David Stavanger, Todd Swift, John Tranter, Joanna C. Valente, Samuel Wagan Watson, Fakie Wilde, Mark Young, Ali Znadi + More

Bareknuckle Poet Anthology Vol.1 2015

BAREKNUCKLE POET ANNUAL VOL.1, 2015

BAREKNUCKLE POET ANNUAL VOL.1 2015 2nd Edition 2016 Edited by Brentley Frazer & A. G. Pettet. Publisher: BAREKNUCKLE BOOKS. IMPRINT: Bareknuckle Poets. ISSN: 2205 – 7218. STATUS: Published: 01/11/2016. Copyright: Bareknuckle Books & Contributors. Language: English. Extent: 348 pages. Binding: Perfect-bound Paperback. Interior Ink: Black & white. Dimensions: (inches) 6x 9 CONTRIBUTORS: L. Ward Abel, Robert Adamson, Venero Armanno, Melissa Ashley, Lisa Marie Basile, Mandy Beaumont, Sally Breen, MTC Cronin, B. R. Dionysius, Maria C. Dominguez, Martin Edmond, Michael Farrell, Toby Fitch, Brentley Frazer, Claire Gaskin, Allen Ginsberg, Matt Hetherington, Eleanor Jackson, Anthony Lawrence, Alexandra McCallum, Tim McGabhann, Laura Jean Mckay, Corey Mesler, Reg Mombassa, A. G. Pettet, Mark Pirie, Rufo Quintavalle, Kris Saknussemm, Gary Snyder, David Stavanger, Todd Swift, John Tranter, Joanna C. Valente, Samuel Wagan Watson, Fakie Wilde, Mark Young, Ali Znadi + More