Reviews, Interviews, Essays (about John Wall Barger)

Review of Smog Mother: Jennifer Wong reviews Smog Mother for Hong Kong Review of Books, April 2023 (read it here)

Podcast: John Wall Barger talks about art with Zak Rosen on The Best Advice show. April 2023 (listen here)

Interview: John Wall Barger talks about Smog Mother with Sabyasachi Nag for Artisanal Writer. April 2023 (read it here)

Podcast: John Wall Barger appears on Ms. Lyric’s Poetry Outlaws, talking about poetic ecosystems and reading from Smog Mother. March 2023 (listen here)

Review of Smog Mother: Catherine Owen reviews Smog Mother for Marrow Reviews, March 2023 (read it here)

Review of Smog Mother: Jonathan Harrington reviews Smog Mother for Beltway Poetry Quarterly, March 2023 (read it here)

Interview: John Wall Barger talks about Smog Mother with Sharon Berg for EVENT, February 2023 (read it here)

Review of Smog Mother: Miriam Calleja Shaw reviews Smog Mother for Compulsive Reader, February 2023 (read it here)

Review of Trying on the Walrus Costume in the Ed Sullivan Theater of the Mind (chapbook): Kevin Spenst reviews John Wall Barger’s Bottlecap Press chapbook for periodicities, February 2023 (read it here)

Review of Smog Mother: Robyn Earhart reviews Smog Mother for Water~Stone Review, January 2023 (read it here)

Review of Smog Mother: Sean Hanrahan reviews Smog Mother for Mad Poets Society, November 2022 (read it here)

Podcast: John Wall Barger talks with Jamie Tennant about Smog Mother on Get Lit podcast, November 2022 (listen to it here)

Review of Resurrection Fail: Jonathan Harrington reviews Resurrection Fail for Beltway Poetry Quarterly, November 2022 (read it here)

Review of Resurrection Fail: Bret Crowle reviews Resurrection Fail for Freefall, November 2022 (read it here)

Interview: John Wall Barger talks with Kevin Andrew Heslop about Resurrection Fail for The /Temz/ Review, March 2022 (read it here)

Review of Resurrection Fail: Rochak Agarwal reviews Resurrection Fail for Pegasus Literary, November 2021 (read it here)

Essay: “Contributor’s Marginalia: Kelly Rowe responding to John Wall Barger’s “The Delight of Misapprehension”” in 32 Poems, September 2021 (Read it here)

Review of Resurrection Fail: Cameron MacKenzie reviews Resurrection Fail for Plume, August 2021 (read it here)

Review of The Mean Game: Jay Miller reviews The Mean Game for Arc Poetry Magazine: “The Hero in the Jaws of the Serpent: John Wall Barger’s The Mean Game,” June 2021 (Read it here)

Interview: In The Field: Conversation With John Wall Barger. Water~Stone Review, May 2021 (Read it here)

Review of The Mean Game: Chris Kaiser, Mad Poets Society, May 2020 (Read it here)

Review of The Mean Game: Leslie Timmins, EVENT Poetry Magazine, March 2020 (print only)

Interview: John Wall Barger talks with All Lit Up about The Mean Game (“Read The Provinces” series), Jan 2020 (Read it here)

Review of The Mean Game: Phillip Crymble reviews The Mean Game for Hamilton Review of Books, Oct 2019 (Read it here)

Review of The Mean Game: Diana Senechal reviews The Mean Game for Literary matters. ““A Wild Clarity”: John Wall Barger’s The Mean Game.” Sept 2019 (read it here)

Review of The Mean Game: John Timpane reviews The Mean Game for The Philadelphia Inquirer. “John Wall Barger’s ‘The Mean Game’: The problems with love, myth by myth.” July 2019 (read it here)

Interview: John Wall Barger talks with RC Weslowski about The Mean Game on Wax Poetic, Co-op Radio, June 2019 (listen to it here — scroll down to June 26)

Interview: John Wall Barger talks with Jamie Tennant about The Mean Game, on Get Lit podcast, May 2019 (listen to it here)

Review of The Mean Game: Cameron MacKenzie reviews The Mean Game for The Roanoke Review, April 2019 (read it here)

Interview: Author Spotlight: John Wall Barger, interviewed by Annick MacAskill at the Writer’s Federation of Nova Scotia, August 2018 (read it here)

Review of Dying in Dharamsala (chapbook): Carl Watts reviews Alfred Gustav Press chapbook, Dying in Dharamsala, for The Temz Review, June 2018 (read it here)

Interview: “A Rejection of Logic: James Kendrick in Conversation with John Wall Barger” in The Malahat Review, Summer 2017 (read it here)

Review of Hummingbird: Zane Koss reviews Hummingbird in The Bull Calf, Spring 2017 (read it here)

Interview: Vallum Magazine Year in Poetry: Featured Interview of John Wall Barger by Vallum Staff, December 2016 (read it here)

Review of The Book of Festus: Ted Nolan reviews Festus, in Arc Poetry Magazine, August 2016 (read it here)

Review of The Book of Festus: Elizabeth Johnstone reviews Festus for Atlantic Books Today, July 2016 (read it here)

Review of The Book of Festus: Blair Trewartha reviews Festus for Open Book Toronto, December 2015 (read it here)

Review of The Book of Festus: Michael Prior reviews Festus for CV2, October 2015 (read it here) 

Essay: “Poetry is Pleasure,” by Anita Lahey. Lahey discusses the poem, “Urgent Message from the Captain of the Unicorn Hunters,” in her introduction to The Best Canadian Poetry in English, 2015 (Tightrope Books), August 2015 (read it here)

Essay: Sharon McCartney discusses John Wall Barger in All Lit Up (“Poetry Primer”). Including a short interview with Barger, April 2015 (read it here)

Interview: Freefall Magazine, John Wall Barger interviewed by Micheline Maylor, October 2013 (read it here)

Review of Hummingbird: Cecilia Chan reviews Hummingbird in Asian Cha, June 2013 (read it here)

Review of Hummingbird: Christina Francine reviews Hummingbird, in Fjords Review , January 2013 (read it here)

Review of Hummingbird: David Godkin reviews Hummingbird, in The Malahat Review, October 2012 (read it here)

Review of Hummingbird: Philip Thompson reviews Hummingbird, in The Chronicle Herald, August 2012

Review of Hummingbird: Jay Miller reviews Hummingbird, in Literatured (now defunct), August 2012

Review of Pain-proof Men: Kit Dobson reviews Pain-proof Men, in Freefall, Summer 2011

Review of Pain-proof Men: Garth Martens reviews Pain-proof Men, in The Malahat Review, Summer 2010

Interview: Wanda Waterman St. Louis in conversation with John Wall Barger, in Voice Magazine, June 2010 (read it here)

Review of Pain-proof Men: Wanda Waterman St. Louis reviews Pain-proof Men, in Voice Magazine, June 2010 (read it here)

Review of Pain-proof Men: Andrew Vaisius reviews Pain-proof Men, in Prairie Fire (read it here)

Review of Pain-proof Men: Mark Sampson reviews Pain-proof Men, in Free Range Reading, April 2010 (read it here)

Review of Pain-proof Men: Sean Flinn reviews Pain-proof Men, in The Coast, March 2010 (read it here)