REVIEWER:
Wendy Donawa calls Victoria home, and is grateful to live on the unceded  lək̓ʷəŋən (Lekwungen) territory of the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations. Her prior life included 36 years in Barbados, as a UWI student, a Barbados Community College instructor, and a Barbados Museum curator.

Her first book, Thin Air of the Knowable (BrickBooks, 2017), was a finalist for the Raymond Souster award and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Our Bodies Unanswered Questions (Frontenac House) followed in 2021. Her poems are also found in anthologies and magazines including Arc Poetry Magazine, The New Quarterly, Canadian Review of Books, Prairie Fire, Literary Review of Canada, Plenitude, Room, Freefall, and online Poetry Pause.

links to the latest unpackings:

Season 29 unpackings:

November 2024: Lorna Crozier, “St Francis”
October 2024: Kelsey Andrews, “The Three Fates’ Dry Cleaning and Alterations” 
September 2024: Selina Boan, THE INTERNET’S ADVICE ON HOW TO SURVIVE THE APOCALYPSE IS A HOT MESS/

Season 28 unpackings:

June 2024: Catherine St Dennis, “Baby Fentanyl”
May 2024: Arleen Paré, “After Breakfast Comes The Light”
April 2024: Stephen T. Berg, “For All That is Given
March 2024: Marlene Grand Maître, “How Far You Live”
February 2024: Cecily Nicholson, HARROWINGS excerpt
November 2023: Jónína Kirton, REDress
October 2023: Jenna Butler, “Song to the Boreal” (excerpt)
September 2023: Kevin Spenst, “It Will Rain Like Rods on the Hillside in Sweden”

Season 27 unpackings:

June 2023: Eve Joseph, “The capon exploded…”
May 2023: Susan Braley, “Held Down”
April 2023: Karen Enns, “Garden Party”
March 2023: Dan MacIsaac, “Spirit Bear” and “Garbage Bear”
February 2023: Chantal Gibson, “misplaced modifiers”
January 2023: Barbara Pelman, “Walk On”
November 2o22: Rhonda Ganz, “The King is Old and Fat, and Moves One Square, Even in his Underwear”
October 2022: Susan Alexander, “Sword Ferns in Spring”
September 2022: Linda K. Thompson, “Bring this Stone to the Grave”