My review of Shannon Stewart's Penny Dreadful and Phil Hall's White Porcupine is up at The Rover:

With the momentous recent political and economic news, it may be all too easy to overlook what Ezra Pound called the “news that stays news.” Poetry has never pretended to be breaking news, but well executed, it can revive old verities with an immediacy that surpasses any reportage à la CNN. Read on…