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Chris Banks

  • From the Top Shelf: An Appraisal of Don Coles’ Forests of the Medieval World
    January 7, 2026

    From the Top Shelf: An Appraisal of Don Coles’ Forests of the Medieval World

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  • Losing and Finding: A Review of Hunger: The Poetry of Susan Musgrave  (WLU Press 2025)
    January 5, 2026

    Losing and Finding: A Review of Hunger: The Poetry of Susan Musgrave  (WLU Press 2025)

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  • Confessionalism and Comprehensiveness: An Essay About Contemporary Poetics
    September 12, 2025

    Confessionalism and Comprehensiveness: An Essay About Contemporary Poetics

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  • Masks & Mischief: Reading Guy Elston’s The Character Actor Convention (The Porcupine’s Quill, Fall 2025)
    September 11, 2025

    Masks & Mischief: Reading Guy Elston’s The Character Actor Convention (The Porcupine’s Quill, Fall 2025)

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  • Raging Against The Machines: A Review of Paul Vermeersch’s NMLCT: Poems (ECW Press, Fall 2025)
    September 10, 2025

    Raging Against The Machines: A Review of Paul Vermeersch’s NMLCT: Poems (ECW Press, Fall 2025)

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  • Heart-Work: Robyn Sarah’s We’re Somewhere Else Now poems 2018-2024 (Biblioasis Press Fall 2025)
    September 7, 2025

    Heart-Work: Robyn Sarah’s We’re Somewhere Else Now poems 2018-2024 (Biblioasis Press Fall 2025)

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  • Bad Landscapes & The Heart’s Unbroken Land: A Review of Karen Solie’s WELLWATER (Anansi Press 2025)
    August 14, 2025

    Bad Landscapes & The Heart’s Unbroken Land: A Review of Karen Solie’s WELLWATER (Anansi Press 2025)

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  • Social Media & “Cringe Culture”
    July 31, 2025

    Social Media & “Cringe Culture”

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  •  Form, Style & Relativism in Canadian Poetry 
    May 30, 2025

     Form, Style & Relativism in Canadian Poetry 

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  • DayDreaming Significance: The Art of Poetic Attention
    April 16, 2025

    DayDreaming Significance: The Art of Poetic Attention

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