Although I often introduce writers in this blog by telling readers where they come from, it seems particularly apt to do so with mixed race queer feminist poet Leah Horlick: she hails from Saskatoon, but is currently based in Vancouver. Horlick’s places are such an important detail to me because her poems in the recent collection Riot Lung above all else made me think about place: place in a conventional sense, when Horlick evokes specific spaces like the prairies, but also more figuratively: the people these poems are peppered with are geographies unto themselves. There’s something about the specificities of the folks in these poems that made them stand out to me like lands to be explored but never quite known...

See the rest of my review on my website: http://caseythecanadianlesbrarian.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/geographies-of-people... ( )