NEW HOPE INTERNATIONAL REVIEW

An independent small press poetry review

NHI independent review
NORMAN DRIVE
Friday Circle
Dept. of English
University of Ottawa
Ottawa ON
K1N 6N5
Canada
ISBN 1 896362 37 0
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Treating everyone fairly by using an alphbetical presentation of the poets, this anthology looks good and has been well put together.

Most of the material comes into the personal/confessional lyric style that seems so prevalent these days. Ones that particularly grabbed my attention were John Kelly's LITTLE BO-PEEPSHOW:

	You let the wind shepherd your skirt
	as I pulled the wool from over my eyes.
Nicholas Lea's AT THE LOOKOUT:
	patch-quilt of farm land
	stretch out below and vertigo—

	what horizon?
and Seymour Mayne's OVERHEARD AT THE BARBER:
	If
	a
	man
	could
	only
	be
	born
	aged
	and
	die
	as
	a
	young
	boy!
What the anthology seems to lack is any context: who are the poets and why were they chosen and who by? Does the work represent material from a workshop? Good as it is, I felt a little frustrated by the bald presentation of people I have no knowledge about as if it were all prefectly self-explanatory.

reviewer: John Francis Haines