Debut collection polished, properly incomplete
Winnipeg Free Press - PRINT EDITION
Reviewed by: Ariel Gordon
TO borrow from the patter of real-estate television, Melanie Siebert's debut ticks all the boxes.
Deepwater Vee (McClelland & Stewart, 96 pages, $19) is polished and also properly incomplete, euphoric in its use of language but also at the same time elegiac.
The Victoria-based poet surveys Canada's northern rivers, and her poems are full of the jargon of back-country campers and whitewater enthusiasts on the one hand and of resource ex...
Reviewed by: Ariel Gordon
TO borrow from the patter of real-estate television, Melanie Siebert's debut ticks all the boxes.
Deepwater Vee (McClelland & Stewart, 96 pages, $19) is polished and also properly incomplete, euphoric in its use of language but also at the same time elegiac.The Victoria-based poet surveys Canada's northern rivers, and her poems are full of the jargon of back-country campers and whitewater enthusiasts on the one hand and of resource ex...
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Jun 27, 2010 08:50PM
Hi Ariel. I just read your column in yesterday's Winnipeg Free Press (I'm visiting my parents). So very very good to see poetry seriously reviewed in the book section.Great that you're doing this! Rhea
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Thanks, Rhea! The prospect of reviewing poetry still terrifies me, but reading & thinking through poetry something I need to be doing in order to grow as a poet...
