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The poems of Openwork and Limestone draw us down and back. But “that which won’t stay buried rises,” asks “what flows unseen beneath our lives?” (“Inhumed”).This is the dangerous and thrilling question posed by Boyle’s technically superb, fearlessly probing volume. The title and cover image are inspired. Openwork is meticulous…
Canada's Poetry Magazine
Canada's Poetry Magazine
Allan Briesmaster’s new volume yields the rich gifts of his long, involved bond with poetry. Behind his careful work pulses an instinct, both genuine and inevitable of a writer who sees poems everywhere, all the time. There is a Gerard Manley Hopkins feel to many early pieces, an ecstasy in nature and a meditative music that turns on pure energy. With unwavering concentration, Briesmaster wanders through the natural world to rediscover the human. A late Romantic in love with rural Ontario, he packs these poems with the precision of a sensual cartographer, carefully charting the “reptilian...