Shane Neilson's Dysphoria fearlessly confronts mental illness from all sides, taking the perspective of patient, doctor and observer. It explodes with love and longing, passion and fear. It wails to t
As Shane Neilson writes in Margin of Interest, `Maritime poetry is the sum of what's come before, a unique history, and yes, a unique place.'In Margin of Interest Neilson examines representation, iden
Shane Neilson's accustomed fascination with the two great subjects, love and death, has an element of purely professional interest: he has written a poetry that fuses his poetic concerns with those o
The human face is many things. It is a photograph, an identity, a disguise. It is pain's currency. It is proof of life and death.In his latest collection, On Shaving Off His Face, poet-physician Shane
Inspired by nature, science, topics in the news, art and music, New Brunswick poet M. Travis Lane is prolific yet eschews the spotlight. She has won the Atlantic Poetry Prize, the Alden Nowlan Prize f
Like the novella in fiction, the long poem is an oft-neglected form. Too long for publication in most literary journals and anthologies, too short to merit book-length publication, the long poem occup
