Cordite Poetry Review: Notes on Five Canadian Small (micro) Publishers rob mclennan profiles AngelHousePress & other fabulous small presses in this article. thanks rob!

Steve Kulash & other autopsies In "Steve Kulash & other autopsies" Catherine Owen offers poems which portray leaps, misfits & the wild. Yet these poems are rooted in ordinary moments or finding beauty & ecstasy in the ordinary. Owen populates her poems with both desolate and  lush landscapes, graffiti, fire & grief. She uses language that appeals to all the senses. She is sensitive to sound as demonstrated by the exquisite musicality and rhythm of the lines. She is a close observer. It is as if Owen holds a magnifying glass to life and is reporting on its intricate details, translating them into poignant imagery and metaphor. These poems are in part empathetic  explorations of the nature of grief and an attempt at solace, an attempt at joy, at persevering. Side by side with images of emptiness & incompletion are joyous contortions of language, Whack-A-Mole, buttons popped open, Beaujolais and  Betty Boop. When I first heard these poems, I was struck by how imaginative and intense they were, and how I responded to them with understanding, with a feeling of relief at not being alone.

Regular Expressions as a System of Poetic Notation

Conflict Christine McNair's first trade book will be published by Book Thug this spring

AngelHousePress presents NationalPoetryMonth.ca

 Published by the 5-year-old upstart Canadian micropress AngelHousePress, NationalPoetryMonth.ca is now in its third year & celebrates the diversity of poetic voices &  styles from around the world with 30 contributors from Belgium, Britain, Canada, Finland,
Hungary, and the USA. Every day in April, starting at midnight EST, readers will be able to experience a new poem.

April 1 begins the experience with "A Melancholy Ode to the Degraded Neo-Dadaist
12 linear feet of poetry, Net weight: 114 gr," a collaborative work from Quebec&  Ontario,
Canada by Michèle Provost and Grant Wilkins.

Happy National Poetry Month from AngelHousePress.

Amanda Earl
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