AS PUBLISHED IN BOOKS IN CANADA
But there are so many good poems here, it would seem a random rather than an inevitable enterprise to single out any. Some do stand out for slight nuances of difference: Thea Bowering's "Women in the duty free", for example, or Sioux Browning's amusing "The Perfect Ten"; Mark Cochrane's gender-benders "Latent" and "Mapplethorpe", the disturbing "Black Shirts Drying" of Joelle Hann, or "Grandma in June" by Joy Kirstin; not to mention the entire uncompromising group of works by the Metis poet Gregory Scofield, and impressive selections from Shannon Stewart ("Circle Jerk"), and the Newfoundlander Michael Crummey. And the rest? All worthwhile, as the reader will discover.