Tuesday, November 02, 2010

News at Eleven: Victoria poet Karen Enns,

in her debut collection, That Other Beauty, writes about that same deep concern for the fleeting beauty of life in poems as lovely and nearly as short as [Don] Kerr's.

In Dan's Market, Oldfield Road she writes, "Look, I want to say to all the others/. . . this is passing, this moment/of peach and melon, radishes . . ," while in The Smallest Thing, it isn't all those things we think should help define a relationship between a man and a woman but the way "he put his hand/flat against her back,/the lowest part,/and there were lilacs."

from Saskatoon StarPhoenix: Three poetry collection reviews

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