"prodigal wheelings": selected reviews

From: All Manner of Tackle

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Understood in the Marrow: Tim Bowling’s Dying Scarlet – Among the Shades and the Clarities: A. F. Moritz’s Rest on the Flight into Egypt – Rejoicing in Their Presence: Harry Thurston’s If Men Lived on Earth – Poetry of the Zamboni: Don Coles’ Kurgan – To Give the Symmetry We Seek: Sue Sinclair’s Mortal Arguments and Eric Ormsby’s Daybreak at the Straits and Other Poems – In the Superstructure: Ross Leckie’s Gravity’s Plumb Line – Little Thunder Searching: The Stone Canoe: Two Lost Mi’kmaq Texts

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Brian Bartlett

Brian Bartlett has published many collections and chapbooks of poetry, including The Watchmaker’s Table, The Afterlife of Trees, Granite Erratics, and Wanting the Day: Selected Poems. His honours have included the Atlantic Poetry Prize, the Acorn-Plantos Award for People’s Poetry, and two Malahat Review Long Poem Prizes. He has also written two prose books of nature writing, Ringing Here & There: A Nature Calendar (Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2014) and Branches Over Ripples: A Waterside Journal (Gaspereau, 2017). After editing several volumes of selected poems (by Don Domanski, James Reaney, Robert Gibbs, Dorothy Roberts) for Wilfred Laurier Press and The Porcupine’s Quill, Bartlett recently completed editing Collected Poems of Alden Nowlan (Goose Lane/icehouse poetry, 2017). Since 1990 he has lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia.