Rob McLennan on Prismatic Publics

'I’ve been stunned by the recent work by Kate Eichhorn and her collaborators, from the recent Open Letter issue to the anthology Prismatic Publics: Innovative Canadian Women’s Poetry and Poetics, eds. Kate Eichhorn and Heather Milne (Toronto ON: Coach House Books, 2009), each dealing with a number of innovative Canadian women poets whose work hasn’t been dealt with nearly enough, if at all. Showcasing fifteen writers of poetry and/or poetic prose—Nicole Brossard, Susan Holbrook, Nathalie Stephens, Gail Scott, Margaret Christakos, M. Nourbese Philip, Karen Mac Cormack, Rachel Zolf, Erín Moure, Daphne Marlatt, Catriona Strang, Dorothy Trujillo Lusk, Sina Queyras, Rita Wong and Lisa Robertson—each section includes a lengthy critical interview with each author, as well as examples of their work, making this collection an essential part of any discerning reader’s bookshelf.'

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