HeyJaredReviews of Books I Got for Free or Cheap
Concise, idiosyncratic reviews of books I got for free or cheap, with an emphasis on Canadian poetry.
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Monty Reid's Operatives (opens the original)
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Your name: Monty Reid. Your location: Ottawa, Ontario, seat of Canada’s federal government and associated espionage apparatus. Your mission, should you choose to accept it: to spy upon the spies. Your findings are to be communicated in the form of ten poems, each of eight lines or fewer, to be published “on a 1929 LCSmith & Corona Standard #8-12” typewriter and distributed to Canadians, upon request and with the submission of appropriate payment, in a plain brown envelope via the ordinary mails.
Gregory Scofield's Native Canadiana (opens the original)
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Friends, I’m back. Aiming for roughly every two weeks, ish? For those who may be newer subscribers, what I’m doing here is brief reviews of books that cross my path, mainly poetry, often Canadian, sometimes not the newest. And so, on to today’s review…Red River Métis poet Gregory Scofield isn’t lacking for recognition. His debut poetry collection, The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel won the Dorothy Livesay poetry prize back in 1994, and in 2016 he was awarded a lifetime achievement awar
See you later, it's summer (opens the original)
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This will be the last post here until the autumn, and it’s just to say that this will be the last post here until the autumn. Lately I’ve noticed myself responding strongly to thoughts of taking ease, setting down burdens, letting go a little bit. I still love poetry. I still think reviewing is important, and love doing it. I’ll be back. On my return, expect reviews of … a chapbook by Monty Reid! Books by poets named Lisa! Some truly dreadful 1970s Irving Layton! And more!<a class="image-link im
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