REVIEWER: Wendy Donawa is grateful to live on the unceded territory of the Songhees and Esquimalt peoples, and to see the Salish Sea and the Sooke Hills from the window over her desk. Our Bodies’ Unanswered Questions  is her second collection.

unpacking the poem:
Regional reviewers focus on regional poems

Reviewer Wendy Donawa unpacks a different poem every month. She examines the poem in a way she hopes is helpful for readers and other poets to understand how craft works in a particular poem, for a particular effect.

Links to the latest 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”