Critical Essay by George Bowering
[Black Night Window] establishes for the wider literate audience what was previously known to sincere readers of Canadian poetry—that Newlove is one of our do...
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Critical Essay by Peter Dale Scott
[John Newlove] is a formalist, alert to the tact as well as the audacity of the creative process. North America celebrates a poetic inebriation, moving the mind fro...
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Critical Essay by Stephen Scobie
[In] the words of the epigraph to John Newlove's [Lies], a poet is someone who "often deceived himself and told the truth when he thought he was lying.&...
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Critical Essay by Robin Skelton
The poetry of John Newlove, as presented [in The Fat Man, Selected Poems: 1962–1972] begins in a dark and brooding whimsicality, and moves steadily into utter d...
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Critical Essay by George Bowering
