The Woodlot

reviewed by Chris Banks I was challenged by Tanis Macdonald’s Tall, Grass, Girl out this fall with Book*hug press which is a profound lyric meditation on adoption, assault, ptsd, and, above all else, thriving despite life’s challenges and hardships. Macdonald leans hard into word-play, “world-play”, myth-building, genealogy, and her own experiences which culminate in a…