With enormous care and unquenchable daring, Rhona McAdam explores our relationship to the living world and challenges the constraints of contemporary poetry in her latest collection, Larder. Lovely review of it in the British Columbia Review. The Tyee recommended it this...
Digging the City: An Urban Agriculture Manifesto is nonfiction, a compact hardcover format, one of Rocky Mountain Books’ Manifesto series. One early reviewer liked that it “stands out from other attempts to solve environmental crises for being so engagingly written......
A limited edition collaboration with Calgary artist Colleen Philippi. Each poem is presented in a different, whimsical format. Contents: Boston School of Cooking Cookbook; Coffee; Croutons; Gravy; Implements; Jello; Parma; Salad.
In Cartography, her fifth collection of poetry, Rhona McAdam weaves an imaginative passage through the territories of love, work, family and aging. One reviewer found “These poems cover the gamut of concerns... in an Anne Tyler sort of way. There...
This letterpress collection was hand-set, printed and bound by Carole Wyse Peters. It brings together a half dozen favourite poems covering the droll hilarity of soap operas and the tenderness of family cookbooks.
In Creating the Country, “Rhona McAdam writes poems that are simultaneously delicate, lyrical, sharp-edged, and satiric. There is often something deadly serious and intensely engaging under what appears to be a light surface.” (Prairie Fire)
Cover art: Colleen Philippi
Winner of the Alberta Poetry Award for 1987. “McAdam’s work is rich with textured ambiguity. She charts both the phenomena of the natural world and the subtle filigree of social relations with an unusual organic imagery that is laced with...