Entries Tagged as 'Poetry'

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

Keep Climbing, Girls by Beah E. Richards

When a little girl chooses to climb a tree to its highest bough, she comes up against the formidable Miss Nettie, who first warns of physical injury, and then accuses her of rude behaviour, before threatening dire consequences in the form of a reputation as a tomboy and the scars to go with it. [...]

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

If I Had a Million Onions by Sheree Fitch

Here is a small book of poems that everyone should read. Sheree Fitch is a lover of words and word play – alliteration, rhythm, rhyme, onomatopoeia. Her poems are at times playful, at times evocative, at times thought provoking.
The opera-singing dinosaur of Argentinosaurus reminds one of Evita Peron and the Three Tenors. [...]