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Agnus Terrestrium: Michael Kenyon's Lamb AUG 10, 2019 JOHN LENT Michael Kenyon, Lamb St. John's: Pedlar Press, 2018.   Michael Kenyon’s latest book of poems undermines our obsession with linear time so that we are drawn out into a field of simultaneity―a field where predictable, temporal stories cannot hold―and are spun instead into a spatial face-to-face with light … Continue reading BLOG #6: Agnus Terrestrium: my review of Michael Kenyon’s Lamb in Arc

I meant to post this last November, but I can add now that this book has been short-listed for the BC Book Prizes this spring. After All These Years Laisha Rosnau. Our Familiar Hunger. Gibsons, BC: Nightwood Editions, 2018. ~ Reviewed by John Lent Laisha Rosnau’s latest book is a beautifully crafted suite of poems … Continue reading Blog #5: Laisha Rosnau’s Familiar Hunger

Here's a review that I really enjoyed writing, and it just surfaced in Arc Magazine... Renaissance Clockwork: Aaron Giovannone's The Nonnets MAR 4, 2019 JOHN LENT Aaron Giovannone, The Nonnets Toronto: Book*hug Press, 2018. I’ve been drifting around in Aaron Giovannone’s latest book of poems, The Nonnets, for a while, trying to figure out, ridiculously, why I love this … Continue reading Blog #4: Aaron Giovannone’s Nonnets

One of the self-indulgent luxuries of being retired is that I feel an innocent, almost childish thrill sometimes that I only remember having experienced as a young graduate student at The University of Alberta in the late 60s and at York University in the early 70s: it’s a decadent, even guilty sense that I had, … Continue reading Blog #3: Some Notes On Per Petterson and Patti Smith

April 29, 2018 Below is a review of Tom Wayman’s book of poems, Dirty Snow. It’s funny reading the review now because it was written before Donald J. Trump was elected, so all my comments about ‘mean, bullying times’ seem even more urgent now than they were then.  It’s almost funny. Before the review I … Continue reading Blog #2: Tom Wayman’s Dirty Snow (2012)