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Staying at Home with Poetry

April 22, 2020

As people worldwide continue to hunker down at home, poet Claire Kelly has taken to YouTube to share her #StuckAtHomeBookClub posts—including this video that looks at Emily Nilsen’s award-winning Otolith and at The Gun That Starts the Race.

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Poem of the day

December 16, 2016

Calgary's poet laureate, Micheline Maylor, is doing a cool photographic "Poem of the Day" project through her Instagram account. Her December 12 selection was "Song of the Great Spectacle," from The Gun That Starts the Race.

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New Review: Gun and Twoism

April 16, 2016

In the Malahat Review, Anouk H. Henri offers a fantastic review of two of last year's icehouse poetry titles: The Gun That Starts the Race and Twoism, by the great Ali Blythe.

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Alexandra Oliver Reviews Gun for Arc

February 27, 2016

Arc Poetry has posted Alexandra Oliver's remarkably well-written review of The Gun That Starts the Race. (The "well-written" part will come as no surprise to those familiar with her poetry.)

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Partisan's Year in Books

December 20, 2015

Partisan Magazine asked contributors to write about books that mattered to them in 2015. Danny Jacobs selected The Gun That Starts the Race, which also got a mention in Richard Sanger's entry.

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Gun That Starts the Race: Review

November 6, 2015

Reviewer/blogger Brian Palmu has posted his take on The Gun That Starts the Race.

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poems on lemon hound

April 14, 2015

Three poems from The Gun That Starts the Race have been posted on Lemon Hound.

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Early review for Gun That Starts the Race

March 31, 2015

Prompt reviews for a new poetry title are always a surprise, but Jonathan Ball at the Winnipeg Free Press weighs in early on The Gun That Starts the Race.

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thought migration interview

March 18, 2015

A conversation with Goose Lane's Micah O'Donnell about knuckle sandwiches, the F-bomb, and writing poetry. (Update: That page no longer exists, but the F-bomb portion is excerpted here.)

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poem online

February 16, 2015

The Vehicule Press Blog has featured "Super's Report," from The Gun That Starts the Race, as its Sunday Poem.

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