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December 9, 2021

This inner voice is insistently the salvation of the book's desperate-seeming situation

rushes from the river disappointment by stephanie roberts Somewhere out there, the figures of roberts' distress roam a tough, lonely landscape, but in here, in the pages of her collection, she and her readers find good company in each other. Bill Neumire for Vallum Magazine .
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Published on December 09, 2021 09:24 Tags: bill-neumire, poetry, poetry-book, quebec-authors, quebec-poets, review, vallum-magazine

March 27, 2021

... a sweeping force of music, pulsing images, clear wit, and tenderness

rushes from the river disappointment by stephanie roberts Within beautifully formed poems, there is extensive consideration of what we can understand about love and grief alongside faith and "unbelief", declares Montreal Review of Books' in-depth review of rushes from the river disappointment.
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Published on March 27, 2021 08:18 Tags: montreal-review-of-books, poetry, poetry-book, quebec-authors, review, stephanie-roberts, t-liem

November 9, 2020

A Fine Ear for Rhythm and Rhyme: Room Magazine Interview

In an interview for Room Magazine, with Halifax-based author Annick MacAskill, stephanie roberts discusses rushes from the river disappointmentrushes from the river disappointment by stephanie roberts, nature, her history with music, the sexual pressure and release of the sonnet, and the erotic nature of couplets.
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Published on November 09, 2020 09:31 Tags: annick-macaskill, couplets, eros, interview, poetic-form, sexual-pressure, sonnets, stephanie-roberts

October 18, 2020

rushes from the river disappointment named a finalist for the A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry

In her first traditionally published full poetry collection, roberts was named as a finalist to the Quebec Writers' Federation's A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. The winner of the award will be announced Wednesday, 4 November 2020.
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August 20, 2020

12 or 20 Questions with stephanie roberts

The author considers creative process and poetic philosophy with Ottawa poet, author, and publisher rob mclennan.
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Published on August 20, 2020 06:24 Tags: creative-process, inspirations, interview, poetic-ethos, rob-mclennan, stephanie-roberts

July 10, 2020

Playful but Pointed

An interview with stephanie roberts for The Peak.
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Published on July 10, 2020 08:38 Tags: interview, shenandoah, stephanie-roberts

April 21, 2020

"Roberts writes with wit and attitude ..."

So writes Katy Haas, for NewPages, of "Lady Fine Is for Sugar," from an unpublished manuscript, featured in the March 2020 issue of Poetry and The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext.
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Published on April 21, 2020 11:33 Tags: attitude, katy-haas, newpages, praise, review, wit

April 10, 2020