Reviews + Interviews
DEBBIE OKUN HILL former president of 'The Ontario Poetry Society'
"...Strong stuff! The poems in Cold Fire are full of great visuals too, my favourite line being: “I am deep in thought like an ice cube half-dissolved in whisky.” (From “strolling the blues”) Donna Allard is also Beat Poet Laureate for Canada - Canada's 2nd Beat Poet, Jack Kerouac was the 1st! Published by SkyWing Press
JAMES FISHER, MIRAMICHI READER , 8/22/2019
"...You can read an interview by Allan Hudson with Donna Allard here at the South Branch Scribbler. Donna Allard’s books can be purchased through her official website"
ALLAN HUDSON, SCRIBBLER , 6/22/2019
"...Rattle & Numb is the prestige edition of the poetry of John Burroughs, State of Ohio Beat Poet Laureate 2019-2021, and master of the expressive beat voice for which he has toured the US in his evangelism". Published by Venetian Spider Press and featuring cover art by Emma Anderson is available at AMAZON...
JOHN BURROUGHS, VENETIAN SPIDER PRESS , 8/2019
"...Darkly funny, at times gothic, with fascinating characters. Order on Amazon. do what their roots tell them to do, and the roots run deep in these stories. A HOLIDAY READ. The book starts with eleven published stories in the dark range, then goes on to “A Long Moment In The South,” flash fiction, set in three Texas towns from 1953 to 1957. A strong voice and a person to person talking style takes the reader inside the stories. "...razor-sharp language..." –Amy Laprade, novelist. "...the driest sense of humor...this is a horse that leads YOU to water...and you drink it..." –Joshua Michael Stewart, poet. "...dream magic...cinematographic closeups and dissolves...takes readers on a romp..." –Elizabeth MacDuffie, poet and editor of Meat For Tea magazine..."
RICHARD WAYNE HORTON, HUMAN ERROR PUBLISHING , 9/31/2023
"KENTUCKY BOUND: poems, stories & songs" is a masterful new collection of poetry and prose by internationally acclaimed Kentucky poet Ron Whitehead. The poems and stories bring to life the strange and beautiful people and events who and that helped shaped the young poet as he grew up on a wild nature Kentucky farm. Discover Ron Whitehead's bizarre, hilarious, joyful, sweet, harsh, tragic, loving roots. This rare glimpse into the famed Kentucky author's life will provoke laughter and tears. This collection is filled with poems and stories of faith, making do in hard times, surviving grief and loss, cutting tobacco and raising livestock on the farm, killing chickens, his sex education, the deaths of his father, grandfather, and other relatives, childhood adventures and--most importantly-- human strength and frailty. BUY AT AMAZON
RON WHITEHEAD, AMAZON, 2018
