- Published On: March 15, 2025
There's a new award in town: the $10,000 Al & Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize honours the most outstanding new poetry book published in Canada in 2024 by an established poet with five or more traditionally [...]
- Published On: January 8, 2025
CBC Books has listed Talking to Strangers as one of the best books of poetry published in Canada in 2024. "Talking to Strangers is a poetry collection that explores new encounters with people and objects. As [...]
- Published On: August 13, 2024
Steven Beattie of That Shakespearean Rag blog reviews both books: "Two veteran poets explore the ineffable by way of the tangible and everyday." (Please note this site is available to subscribers only; well worth the [...]
- Published On: August 13, 2024
For those who missed the broadcast, here's my July 22, 2024 conversation with Vancouver Co-op Radio's Wax Poetic co-hosts RC Weslowski and Kevin Spenst about Talking to Strangers.
- Published On: May 2, 2024
Talking to Strangers is full of lyric poems that take notice of the seemingly simple things that people might often take for granted: unexpected meetings in an airport, on a British Columbia beach while walking, [...]
- Published On: April 20, 2024
So grateful for this positive, thoughtful and eloquent review: ' This collection is a master class in description and brevity. Elizabeth Taylor has “cornflower blue eyes”, and the taste of marmalade on toast becomes [...]
