Woodsmoke
Black Pepper, $22.95 pb, 56 pp, 9781876044862
Poetry
Woodsmoke by Todd Turner
by Geoff Page •
Todd Turner’s first collection, Woodsmoke, evolves intriguingly. It starts in the ‘anti-pastoral’ mode founded by Philip Hodgins. Here the poet, long since relocated to the city, looks back with tellingly evocative detail but a divided sensibility on the life he (it’s normally a ‘he’) has now abandoned.
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