Press
Reviews
for The Only Card in a Deck of Knives
“Searingly visceral” — Barb Carey, The Toronto Star
”This is a dark carnival” — Jami Macarty & Danielle Hanson, The Maynard
”A talent like Lauren Turner’s is one to be celebrated and watched” — Chris Banks, The Miramichi Reader
”Every word is beautiful and all of them hurt” — Eileen Mary Holowka, Contemporary Verse 2
”A book that is unnerving and unsettling in the questions it poses” — Rachel McCrum, The Montreal Review of Books
“Looped through with a dizzying range of cultural referents” — Jade Wallace, Carousal Magazine
”Turner got me from the get-go” — Catherine Owen, Marrow Reviews by Catherine Owen
”She is writing poems and she doesn’t have to answer your questions” — rob mclennan, rob mclennan’s blog
Interviews
for We’re Not Going to Do Better Next Time
“Performative love, almost” — in conversation with John Elizabeth Stintzi, The Adroit Journal
for The Only Card in a Deck of Knives
“Well, knives are impractical in a card game” — interviewed for All Lit Up
“We all mythologize reality to make it more palatable” — interviewed for Godberd
“I’m a babe in the woods of theory” — interviewed for rob mclennan’s blog
Get Lit podcast with Jamie Tennant
Page Fright podcast with Andrew French
Misc.
“I used to wear this black velvet onesie in 2016” — interviewed for nothing/in particular
Articles
The Only Card makes the Most Anticipated: Spring 2020 Poetry list at 49th Shelf
Meet a Montreal poet with a Hamilton connection — Laura Furster, The Hamilton Spectator
Canisia Lubrin recommends The Only Card for Writers’ Trust of Canada’s 2020 Best Books of the Year
Syd Lazarus compares my “intimate” book to this “surprisingly unsexy” looking vibrator
The Only Card is included in rob mclennan’s A ‘best of list’ of 2020 Canadian poetry books
Jade Wallace names The Only Card as one of their favourite poetry books in Vallum’s 2020 Year in Review
The Only Card shows up on Jaclyn Desforges’s list of 20 Poetry Collections You May Have Missed in 2020 for the Hamilton Review of Books