A Calendar of Reckoning Paperback – May 15, 2018 by Dave Margoshes

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Radiant Presents (May 15, 2018)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 112 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1550509373
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1550509373
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.2 ounces
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.5 x 8.5 inches

Reviewed by LB Sedlacek

Dave Margoshes makes poetry an art with images tumbling across pages.  His poems draw out life.  His writing is strong.  He shows there is more than one way to write a poem.  The poems wash over you as you read them.  He will make you see the world as it is, but also when your view is adjusted.  From “The Poem Seduces the Poet”:  This poem says no. It bucks and mewls / like a mustang, digs in its heels, refuses / to play along. Brooding. it muses / and fusses, shoots me glances dark enough / to curdle my blood.”

Brooklyn, 1952

We board the bus together,
me first, so I take
the first empty seat,
there’s plenty more further back
but that’s the one she wanted.
Me 10, 11, innocent
as a certain lamb.
I don’t even notice her
till she’s pausing beside
me, glaring down, grey-haired,
grandmotherly. “Kike,”
she spits, lumbers on.

About the Author

Dimensions of an Orchard, the last poetry collection by Dave Margoshes, won the Anne Szumigalski Poetry Prize at the 2010 Saskatchewan Book Awards. He's published four other books of poetry and over a dozen other books, including novels and short story collections. His poems have won a number of awards, including the inaugural Stephen Leacock Prize for Poetry, and have appeared widely in Canadian literary magazines and anthologies, including twice in the Best Canadian Poetry volumes. His Bix's Trumpet and Other Stories was the 2007 Saskatchewan Book of the Year and a ReLit Award finalist. His collection of linked short stories, A Book of Great Worth, also from Coteau Books, was named one of Amazon.ca's Top One Hundred Books of 2012. One of the stories from that collection was a finalist for the Journey Prize. Dave lives on a farm near Saskatoon.