Here are some links to reviews of my book, The Crow's Vow, published in the spring of 2010 by Signal Editions of Vehicule Press.
I was delighted to come upon this glowing review by David Leahy in Canadian Literature.
"Briscoe’s delicately handled yet forceful ability to capture, contain and convert a sense of betrayal, fear, and failing love into something more uplifting yet unsentimental in couplet after couplet is impressive."
http://canlit.ca/reviews/divining_the_elegiac
What an honour to be compared to poets such as these! Garry Thomas Morse writes a most poetic and appreciative review.
"... simple elegant couplets reminiscent of lines by Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), combined with the seasonal transitions and musicality found in the work of Ralph Gustafson."
http://www.poetry-quebec.com/pq/review/article_442.shtml
The Crow's Vow is named one of Lemon Hound's "most engaging books of 2010."
"With a keen ear and relentless scrutiny the familiar terrain of the domestic is transformed into a dramatic Pas-de-deux where the couplings of words is as lovely and toxic and as complex as the heart is broken. You are loved? Yes, but enough?"
http://lemonhound.blogspot.com/2010/12/most-engaging-books-of-2010.html
I was enormously pleased by this full review by British poet Mel Pryor. It's a sensitive reading and very fair assessment of the book, in my opinion.
"innovative, strangely elusive, haunting and worth reading and re-reading."
http://toddswift.blogspot.com/2010/10/guest-review-pryor-on-briscoe.html
Bert Almon's was the very first review of my book, and such a thrilling surprise.
"a brilliant writer whose brilliance manifests itself in small strokes, images of 'kisses like slim dimes,' sharp-eyed observations ('the snow melts first / at the base of things') and sudden shifts of tone."
http://aelaq.org/mrb/article.php?issue=29&article=853&cat=3
This is a fine discussion --part review, part interview-- of the formal and thematic concerns of the book by Dean Steadman for Arc.
"Briscoe's treatment of her theme is unique and masterfully spare."
http://www.arcpoetry.ca/2011/03/28/briscoe-illuminates-human-need-by-the-season/
Though I was very happy to see this reviewer's attention to form, I was rather dismayed at his extremely negative interpretation of my characterisation of the male other in the book.
"exquisite detail and masterful rendering of the passage of time"
http://roverarts.com/2010/08/a-decastitch-in-time-the-crows-vow/
This was an early, not entirely enthusiastic mention by Rob McLennan.
"intriguing"
http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2010/04/susan-briscoe-crows-vow.html
